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Some Reflections on VC Investment Decisions

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Don’t even get me started on Demo Days. You could spent 20 days / year at Demo Days now. I know I can’t be in every deal and I know that the easy part of being a VC is writing the first check in a deal. If an accelerator is writing you they’re also writing 25 other VCs. I don’t.

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

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The other quote from the article is this: “The other thing they say is that they can’t tell on Demo Day which are the good start-ups. So I stand by my well-read Quora post of why I don’t attend demo days. It’s a Demo Day thing. We are judging how well you are coached on stage. Do you have good quips?

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The Importance of Proprietary Deal Flow in Early-Stage VC

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” The other Paul Graham quote from the article is this: “The other thing they say is that they can’t tell on Demo Day which are the good start-ups. So I stand by my well-read Quora post of why I don’t attend demo days. It’s a Demo Day thing. We are judging how well you are coached on stage.

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How to Run Better Presentations & Improve Results

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Can we do a really quick run through your deck so that we save tons of time for a product demo & questions at the end?&#. A perfect meeting gets through the deck quickly, demos a product and still has tons of time for discussion. You need to write down key questions & actions as you park them.

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Story of a Startup Weekend Veteran | The Good, The Bad, and the UGLY!

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From LA Demo Day to Silicon Beach Fest to Crowdstart LA to hackathons to Startup Weekends, companies and entrepreneurs alike have joined forces to feed the startup ecosystem. As a journalist, I’m glad it happened to me so I can write about it. We are all part of the ecosystem after all.

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