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What Should You Send a VC Before Your Meeting?

Both Sides of the Table

The short answer is that you should have multiple versions of your “pitch deck” (a short, visual presentation in Keynote, PPT or similar and shared as a PDF) and each occasion has a specific goal. During the Meeting One last pitch for why you should send the teaser deck in advance. A great meeting is a debate, not a pitch.

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8 Ways New Venture Founders Create Whole New Markets

Startup Professionals Musings

Elon Musk with Tesla and SpaceX may be the most current example of this phenomenon, but others often mentioned include Richard Branson (Virgin Group), Joe Costello (Cadence Design), and Howard Schultz (Starbucks). Strive for breathtaking design, as well as function. Strive for breathtaking design, as well as function.

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Snap’s Yellow accelerator debuts its third batch of investments

TechCrunch LA

With its third class of startups, Yellow, Snap’s in-house startup accelerator that launched in 2018, brought investors and founders together in private slack channels after a live-streamed presentation. Wabisabi Design : an augmented reality game studio focused on bit-sized titles. Stipop : a rich cross-platform chat sticker API.

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10 Key Business Plan Elements Not In A Product Spec

Startup Professionals Musings

Let me assure you that a business plan and product plan are two different things (I have personally written several of both). Thus I offer the following outline for how to organize and present your business plan, with specific examples: Start with outlining the customer problem, and your solution. You need both to survive.

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When in Doubt, Leave it Out (Why Less is More)

Both Sides of the Table

VC Pitch Decks. The great thing about the VC pitch deck is that you can have 30 slides. Presentations. One of the most common tasks of “knowledge workers&# is to analyze a situation and present conclusions to others in order to make decisions on a project. &# WIDLIO. Too many people have 15-20 slides.

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Document Your MVP for a Developer

SoCal CTO

He is not a technical person, but is somewhat web savvy. Or you can have a pitch deck. See User Story is Worthless - Behavior is What We Need although you don't need your behavior description to be as formal as what is presented. Send across any graphic designs you currently have. That's fairly uncommon.

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Startup Weekend LA | An Insiders Story of a Startup on Steroids

Tech Zulu Event

Pitch and form teams! People had one minute to “pitch” their idea to the group as a whole. Of the 150+ participants, about 45 people pitched that night. I was #33 to go up and pitch my idea. Once the pitches were done we were given a cup and paper with our company name on it. We had exactly 54 hours!

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