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How to Handle a VC Presentation with No Deck

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I believe in this so much that, despite my post advising you to be prepared for the *norm* in VC, I wrote a post about a company that came in for a presentation and never even got the slides out or presented a demo. I think the norm in the industry is still to see Powerpoint slides and I wouldn’t hold this against anybody.

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Don’t be a Grin Fucker

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McKinsey had their “ 7S framework &# and BCG had the “ BCG Matrix &# with cash cows, dogs, stars and question marks. I mean Porter’s Five forces is a useful framework but it’s basically microeconomics with a pretty wrapper. But tell me how practical is the 7s’s, really?

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How to Quickly Build a Customer Base With Lead Generation Tools

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It also takes only an hour to develop your own using a rapid development framework like CakePHP. But if you want to level things up, you can use a platform like OptinMonster to create popup forms, sliding forms, floating bars, and sidebars. Everything can be done via the drag-and-drop interface.

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How to Improve Your Odds of Getting to Yes with a VC — “Land and Expand”

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Decision Dynamics Each firm makes decisions in different ways so understanding the firm’s decision framework matters. Building models to evaluate the deal and/or reviewing customer files, company financials, business plans, etc. How does the partnership typically make its final investment decisions?

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The End of the Web? Don’t Bet on It. Here’s Why

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The money slide is the graphic below. Social media will be pervasive in the enterprise and is primarily driving by customer interactions. When asked what their objectives are they cite some form of “improving customer communications” by a long margin. A (Very) Brief (and Selective) History in Computing.

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How I Use Visualization to Drive Creativity

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When I need to give a speech and I’m writing a slide for my deck, I think up the story in my mind that I’m going to tell for this slide. The creative process - Whenever I need to do any task that requires insight I have to be able to visualize – to literally SEE the decision framework. So I thought I would.

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