Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2011

I believe in this so much that, despite my post advising you to be prepared for the *norm* in VC, I wrote a post about a company that came in for a presentation and never even got the slides out or presented a demo. I think the norm in the industry is still to see Powerpoint slides and I wouldn’t hold this against anybody.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

It's quite a different framework from an Airbnb or HomeAway. Another impetus for this was I saw some of the slides that Mary Meeker had done in the Kleiner Perkins annual PDF that they send around, and I realized that the market was being underserved by Airbnb and other key players in the market. That ended up being something.

Startup 100

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

When I need to give a speech and I’m writing a slide for my deck, I think up the story in my mind that I’m going to tell for this slide. The creative process - Whenever I need to do any task that requires insight I have to be able to visualize – to literally SEE the decision framework. So I thought I would.

Writing 356

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