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To Sell Anything You Need to Know What Makes You Unique

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So now you’ve got your key USPs written down and you’ve worked them into slide format to get them across to your prospects. They may have met you at a conference, attended a web conference or somehow else interacted with your company’s marketing department. You’re ready to test drive your new deck.

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11 Quick Tips to Get More Value out of Your Board

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Management teams whisk through slides trying to get through a presentation to share how great things are going and they are eager to get through the meeting so they can get back to their real jobs. Once you prepare the deck each department that contributed slides feels compelled to get it’s half hour of time presenting their progress.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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A gentleman had stopped by our booth multiple times and then wrote me immediately after the conference and said that I “HAD to come and meet with his partners the very next week.” I started by trying to think I could explain my concept without having to patronize everybody with artificial PowerPoint slides. Slides, please.”

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How to Stay in Control of Your Meetings

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If you provide these slides in advance you give board members a chance to reflect and come prepared for a real discussion. There are always times where one member needs to be on a web conference or telephone call due to travel conflicts. That’s why I like web conference over telephone — it keeps people more honest.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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If you want the full SlideShare deck with many slides not in either post it’s in this link –> The LA Tech Market. When my friend and the father of LA’s tech startup community Bill Gross first demonstrated his company GoTo.com (renamed Overture) on stage at a TED conference he was actually booed (True story.

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Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010

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10 Ways To Be Your Own Boss - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , June 18, 2010 The folks at Behance and Cool Hunting asked me to talk at their 99% Conference a couple months ago. The 99% conference is aimed at creative professionals and is focused on Edison's "99% perspiration." Stylish visualisations, tons of data.

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Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

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I’d been around the web long enough to remember the dozens of companies before YouTube that tried to create crowdsourced video sites and failed. Storm Clouds - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , November 12, 2010 We have enjoyed an amazing run in the web startup and investing space over the past five or six years.