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JANUARY 31, 2010

Most people suck at presenting to big groups. It’s a shame because the ability to nail these presentations at key conferences can be once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to influence journalists, business partners, potential employees, customers and VCs. This was evident at the Twiistup pre-event company pitch last week at UCLA.

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APRIL 13, 2011

Huge thank you to Steve De Long for the write up. The value of Pitch Decks; Brad’s personal preferences on deal presentation; and Brad’s practice of accepting cold approaches via email. Either it’s a bunch of pictures or screen shots or it’s a bunch of words. You still need the presentation to back that up.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2011

This is a post I’ve been dying to write for 18 months. I invested in LA-based Gogii , one of the fastest growing, most exciting mobile social networking companies you’ve never heard of and maker of a product called textPlus. To put things into perspective, the company has 7.7 See, I originally lost this deal.

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DECEMBER 16, 2009

I don’t think it takes book smart people to build great companies – sometimes it’s a hindrance. And when they walk in my office and present you can tell that they know what they’re talking about. You can practically hear the “voice of the customer&# when they’re presenting their concept.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2011

One of the great joys of doing the web series This Week in VC every week is that I get to spend time with great people debating the issues of our day including how our industry is evolving as well as insights into how companies got started, got their initial traction and dealt with adversities. I’m used to that refrain.

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JANUARY 16, 2010

Here are 4 areas / companies that I’m excited about: 1. Writing down your weight from your scale is obviously a manual process and it’s tedious. If you have an iPhone you can scan the UPC code on the food you eat and they will be entered directly into DailyBurn done through a partnership with a company called Occipital.

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Technical Review Software Review Startup SoCal 278

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Facebook just hit 1 billion active users globally and that was great but a new social payment application is set to make Facebook users across the world get more from their connections and even allowing companies to sell or receive payments from their pages. TechZulu caught up Robert Sussman, Co-CEO of Zunguz , the Facebook payment app.

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Software Review Social Network Platform Technical Review 92

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JULY 19, 2011

They have a wide set of existing relationships, they have teams of junior staff that cull databases (or increasing pile through LinkedIn), they are skilled in approaching prospective talent and they can “pre sell&# your company to get the recruit to the table in the first place. They’re also good at screening candidates.

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JANUARY 17, 2011

So I thought I’d write a post about how I drive my personal creativity. (A It’s why I always work hard to find images for my blog posts & why all of my keynote presentations are visual rather than bullet points with words. This applies equally to VCs, startups & big company executives.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2011

I’m still planning to write some in depth pieces on the topic but I thought, “given that this is about how video will consume the Internet over the next 5 years, what better way to exemplify this than with a 10-minute video.” I believe that for any innovation to take place you need a variety of factors to be present.

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MAY 22, 2010

One of the companies that just announced $10 million in funding was a company I had never heard of called Huddle. With Huddle, you can manage people, projects and information inside and outside your company, securely.&#. I always worry about companies that spread themselves too broadly. So Skype was ubiquitous.

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DECEMBER 14, 2009

I’ve watched people who went to the top schools, got the best grades and worked for all the right companies flame out. This post covers the first out of 10 that I’ll write about. When I launched my second company I was new to Silicon Valley. My company was relatively unknown. Next on the checklist.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 7, 2013

As I write this article, Crash Course stands at 83% of its pledge goal, with nearly 10,800 fans funding the show''s production costs for its upcoming season. This sponsor-driven presentation had the makings of a boring, self-serving talk. Filling The Screen. Border Run. Next up was Nick Tran, Taco Bell''s "Social Media Lead."

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 20, 2014

myLINGO is the first product of her company Oladas, Inc., Explain to our readers why you started your company, and why you created your app myLINGO. What we found is that there was no present solution to do this. What has been the biggest milestone the company has achieved so far? What problem were you trying to solve?

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Startup Entertainment CTO Coach Screening 91

Xconomy

JUNE 10, 2016

The results give the company confidence it can expand its tests to screen for early cancer in high-risk people who are otherwise healthy. Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes, just like her fellow black turtleneck wearer Steve Jobs, will get the big screen treatment.

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

dealing with how digital or analog signals are actually transmitted for point A to point B), the network layer in the middle that deals with routing packets of information, to the presentation and application layer at the top end. When I started my second company in 2005 we decided to do everything differently. Management.

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