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How to Handle a VC Presentation with No Deck

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I wrote the summary notes in this blog post. I’m comfortable with introductions and then getting into the demo.&#. 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.

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Why Early-Stage VCs Should Be Careful About Intros from Bankers

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I’m not saying that lawyers were my screening process – simply that they knew about deals early on and they had voted with their time and pocketbooks so I knew I had a degree of filtering. I eventually stumbled on to the best source of high-quality deal flow imaginable – blogging. It’s a Demo Day thing.

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The Importance of Proprietary Deal Flow in Early-Stage VC

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I’m not saying that lawyers were my screening process – simply that they knew about deals early on and they had voted with their time and pocketbooks so I knew I had a degree of filtering. I eventually stumbled on to the best source of high-quality deal flow imaginable – blogging. It’s a Demo Day thing.

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Snapchat 101 for VCs and Old Folks

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Let me first address VCs or anybody else who is likely above the age where they “get” Snapchat but whose customers are likely in the age demo who use it religiously. That’s like you saying you don’t want to go to cocktail parties and network anymore while every 25-35 year-old VC steals your customers.

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Tasty Labs launches Human.io | Building Applications to Engage an Audience

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will also allow users to carry out product or service surveys by engaging customers. According to Joshua Schachter on his blog , Human.io This allows publishers to easily create missions and activities to get people involved more directly than just reading stuff on a screen. According to Tasty Labs, Human.io He says, “Human.io

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How Many Investors Should You Talk to in a VC Fund Raise? And How Do You Prioritize?

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In any event this is a “screening meeting” or as I’ve called on my graphics an “introduction” to the firm. This goes into the heart of my controversial blog post (coming soon! Come back to this blog over the next 2 weeks and I’ll explain. The first meeting is usually with 1–2 people within the VC firm.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

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Brad on blogging. How did you start blogging? “My My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level.