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How to Handle a VC Presentation with No Deck

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And when you finish the demo you can bring in the other important components such as competition, team, customer acquisition strategy, etc. Powerpoint can be especially useful for platform businesses or B2B. I wrote the summary notes in this blog post. That notes only told part of the story. So is the PowerPoint deck passé?

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

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Running up big losses or trying to grow extraordinarily fast through paid marketing initiatives that have long payback periods will be the kiss of death for you. In our industry we applaud the efforts for entrepreneurs to have tried and we know that today’s failure can bring the experience for tomorrow’s success.

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The Power of “In Person” – Why Distributed Teams are Less Effective

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You attend five customer meetings together over a two-week period and after each meeting you replay the results in the office about what it meant. The conversations bleed into the sales messages the next time, they wend their way into software designs and form the plan of attach against competition. Conventional wisdom is wrong.