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Managing Your Startup Board?—?A Short Presentation

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A Short Presentation I was invited to do a keynote presentation at the Khosla Ventures CEO Summit this week in Sausalito. The more you are regularly checking in the more room for course correction or at a minimum the more bought in board members are because they participated in the process. Managing Your Startup Board?—?A

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How to Present and Answer Questions in a Team Presentation or VC Pitch

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I sit through a lot of presentations. These range from companies pitching me to portfolio companies presenting at board meetings. Each of these scenarios has a team presenting. Some CEO’s are masters at communicating when team members are present. Some fare less well. This is really annoying. Summary : Teams matter.

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The Breakthrough Presentation that Stole the Upfront Summit

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As you can imagine, when you introduce tech professionals or VCs to a grammy-award winning rap artist they start with pre-conceived ideas but of course that “pattern matching” is what leads our industry to underestimate people. So of course when Cham wanted to build his own startup I was first in line asking to fund him.

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Wow! Are your relationships important!

Berkonomics

Of course, the response depends upon lots of variables, including whether the company is in a fund-raising mode (in which case the CEO may be spending up to 80% of their time on this alone). It is from over a thousand of these CEO presentations over the years that I attempt to make the following generalities.

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Hire a consultant; ignore the advice!

Berkonomics

I started my presentation, which had been carefully documented in handouts and PowerPoint, with this story… A unique description of the “ignore” lesson. “I Not all consultants give advice worth taking, of course. We were quite confident that our services would yield great, measurable results. first appeared on BERKONOMICS.

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This Week’s Keynote Presentations

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This Saturday morning I’ll be giving the keynote presentation on “ The Future of Social Networking.&# (unfortunately they didn’t give this event it’s own URL so this link should only work until the day of the event.) I have my basic slide decks complete but always happy to add, amend or ad-lib. Hope to see you!

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6 Ways To Make Your Business Presentations Stand Out

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course, it is possible to overuse stories to the point of undermining your credibility or wasting people’s time. Rather than just listing the innovative new features of your solution, as well as your commitment to quality and service, use feedback from named customers or beta users to make key points.

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