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How to Nail a Group Presentation

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So I thought I’d write a piece on how not to suck when you give a presentation. Don’t confuse this with a tour-de-force education on the finer details of how your company operations. You’re there to leave an impression – not to educate. Nobody wants to read your text on a big screen.

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How I Invest

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I answered in the same way I always do so I thought I’d just write it publicly. “I I work with two companies that aim to change education but both are indirectly aiming to do so. Anyway, since I’ve now been asked three times in the past week I thought I’d just write publicly what I often say privately. I fall in love.”

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Learning The Ropes Of Internet Video With Michael Tringe and CreatorUp

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Los Angeles-based CreatorUp (www.creatorup.com) wants to help aspiring online video producers with an online web education series. We also have live lab sessions, which we run through Google+ Hangouts, which mirror the school education experience. It's a hands-on kind of education. What is CreatorUp all about?

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Remind Me Why I Love You? (Why “In Person” is Everything)

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I was amazed at your innovation, approach, cleverness, enthusiasm, leadership traits, background, education, team?—?everything. Frankly, it’s the life of ANY executives with whom you want to sell product, do a business development deal with, execute M&A, a journalist you want to write about your company?—?anybody. everything.

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Venture capitalists ‘like and subscribe’ to influencers

TechCrunch LA

People say we’re crazy, but we know creators are legit businesses,” Karat writes on its website — the company didn’t respond to a request to chat about what they’re working on. Podfund , for example, writes checks sized between $25,000 to $50,000 to emerging podcasters. Benett/Dave Benett/WireImage). Rethinking value.

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Interview with Sunil Rajaraman, Scripped

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to the business of script writing, and is looking to combine a free online tool for writing scripts with matching those scripts with content producers. Are you targeting Hollywood and existing script writing software? Scripped (www.scripped.com) is applying the world of Web 2.0 What's Scripped?

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Why Most of Your Assumptions About Phone Calls are Wrong

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Only naive people believe that but for inexperienced entrepreneurs you can be fooled into the narrative by the press who sometimes write stories without the actual data. The reduction in screen size has made the economic model of Internet advertising totally inefficient. Higher education. PHONE CALLS. Enter phone calls.

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