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What Should You Send a VC Before Your Meeting?

Both Sides of the Table

If you have another 15–20 super detailed slides they should either be in an appendix after you get through the main presentation or in a separate deck that you may or may not get out. These additional slides are often called “pocket slides” as in you have them in your pocket in case you need to pull them out. Compelling.

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I Know Everybody Told You to Send Your Fund-Raising Decks as a Link.

Both Sides of the Table

I know that you can use an email system with this to track my open rate, whether I forwarded the email, the IP address where I read it, whether I was on a mobile device or a wired computer and you can tell who else read the document. after all you aren’t presenting this at TED. What should be in your deck?

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NDA Stealth Mode and Sharing Your Startup Concept

SoCal CTO

Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 2: They Raised Money With My Slides?! Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 3: The Best Defense is a Good IP Strategy First Rule of Fight Club Does NOT Apply Worry About People Listening To You, Not About Them Stealing Your Ideas If you love your idea, set it free…. False Confidence.

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NDA Stealth Mode and Sharing Your Startup Concept

SoCal CTO

Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 2: They Raised Money With My Slides?! Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 3: The Best Defense is a Good IP Strategy First Rule of Fight Club Does NOT Apply Worry About People Listening To You, Not About Them Stealing Your Ideas If you love your idea, set it free…. False Confidence.

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7 Pitching Tips to Help You Crush Your Next Investor Meeting

Tech.Co

Try to compile all the different types of questions you could be asked about your business, like technical details, financial assumptions and projections, marketing, IP, etc., Try to keep the presentation tight, 10 slides is ideal,” Gruber said. Also keep the slides clean and easy to read. and prepare a response. Less Is More.

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

SoCal CTO

. - 47 Hats , March 9, 2010 Seed funding best practices - StartupCFO , February 11, 2010 PowerPoint Is Evil, Redux - David Silverman , April 28, 2010 I'm Tired of Creating Your Content - Babbling VC , November 12, 2010 The Scene Will Kill You - Brad Hargreaves , November 7, 2010 The Magic Word in Customer Development Emails - Kevin Dewalt , January (..)

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Great Entrepreneurs are Masters of Business Chaos

Startup Professionals Musings

Don’t count on your IP to save you. Even after you bring chaos under control, you face an ongoing challenge to avoid back-sliding. There are always people around with deeper pockets that can find synergy between your space and theirs. Employees stop innovating. Innovation requires venturing into the unknown, causing more dreaded chaos.