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Why you should never have a data room — the most counter-intuitive fund-raising advice you’ll ever…

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He told me to stop responded to RFPs where I wasn’t the person who helped write the specs for the RFPs. I tried it, it worked incredibly well and meeting with people (in person, in a web conference or on the phone) is ALWAYS better for you to understand their buyer needs and them to better understand you.

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One Man’s Signal is Another Man’s Noise

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It’s apropos because there is so much noise these days with email, Twitter, Facebook, blogs, web shows, etc. If I check Twitter it’s usually because I’m waiting for a meeting to start and I never write posts during the day. that it’s sometimes hard to know when to pay attention and when to keep your head down.

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Improving Website and Wordpress Performance with Hard-Coded Share Buttons

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For my site, I made a few icons using badges I’ve found around the web which you’re welcome to download and use (please don’t link to mine, right-click, save-as, and upload for yourself). What I write here is protected by a Creative Commons License. Thanks for the comment! do you need help? whats the process?

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Announcing Projector?—?A Startup I’ve Been Excited to Tell You About for Years

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Yet as somebody who has to read and write decks as a major portion of his job I can tell you that most people struggle with how to tell stories visually and when I need to do it I am aware of how difficult the modern toolsets make it to do this alone, let alone collaboratively. What are some examples? Yeah, this sucks.

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Is WebEx “Dead Man Walking?”

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This week I was preparing for my weekly This Week in Venture Capital web show and was researching some of the deals that were announced for the week. Aside from attacking yet another market segment all I could think about is, “Why enter the web conferencing market. I’m writing this post from Shanghai.

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