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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 would mostly lump me in that category. 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. The best policy is to ask.

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Do you Suffer from the Urgency Addiction? It’s More Common Than you Think

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I know that would be surprising to many readers since keeping a blog somehow convinces people that I’m a time management or productivity ninja. The first was to do a 5 minute “ignite&# presentation – 5 minutes, 15 slides. I did the outline of the 15 slides on the flight over (after a few beers).

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Understanding a VC’s Seed Funding Policy is Critical

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Many firms do it in a way that can be more detrimental to entrepreneurs. If you don’t understand the concept of “signaling&# please read the blog post I wrote on Understanding VC signaling. I’ve done 4 seed investments in the past year and they are 100% referenceable. million is “follow on&# seed investment.

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American Immigration: The Invisible Wall to Innovation

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category E visa for investors as a prime example of the recent troubles. The Startup Act outlines a five-prong approach to job creation based on the proven track record of entrepreneurs: Reducing regulatory burdens. According to the official press release on Senator Moran’s blog. Take the U.S. Attracting business investment.

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

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It’s always fun chatting with Jason because he’s knowledgeable about the market, quick on topics and pushes me to talk more about VC / entrepreneur issues. We’re staring to get the hang of how to divide the show up into talking about deals but also talking about issues for entrepreneurs during funding.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. Suddenly we were all creating blogs on Blogger.com, Typepad & WordPress. We started uploading images of ourselves to our blogs. But the masses didn’t want to blog. But less considered is the fact that the success of the Web 2.0