Demo Email Screening Writing 
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 9, 2018
Your product demo crushed. I raced home to put my kids to bed, say hello to my wife and then spend a grueling administrative hour doing email. I know you emailed me and I emailed you back. On a phone call it’s too easy to be distracted and thumb through paperwork, stare out the window or glance at your computer screen.
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 8, 2009
Keep on the radar screen – I know the VC’s seemed to love you when they met you. You should send “update emails&# that are very short but highlight some of the achievements you made with the intro saying, “since you showed interest in my company I just wanted to provide you a brief update on our progress.&#
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Both Sides of the Table
MAY 13, 2018
The surest sign a fund-raising process has stalled is when you aren’t getting follow-up meetings or hearing from the VC or hearing from friends that they got a phone call or email asking about you. In any event this is a “screening meeting” or as I’ve called on my graphics an “introduction” to the firm. If a VC “ghosts you” (i.e.
Both Sides of the Table
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. And I would rather, even before the executive summary, have something to play with (a demo)…” It falls in the category of show don’t tell.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 17, 2010
We held a 90-minute demo session where 150 of LA’s VC’s and senior technology executives watched the LPLA V2 group present in small groups of 12-15 each. The VC’s & executives were then asked to make “commitments&# (in writing) to 3-5 of the companies that they felt they could make some sort of contribution to.
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JANUARY 30, 2012
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Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 31, 2010
So I thought I’d write a piece on how to not suck when you give a presentation. If you demo your product (which is always great) then tell us part of the story while you’re demo’ing. Also, asking is not appropriate at a marquee conferences like TechCrunch50, DEMO, Twiistup and the like.
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