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How to Not Suck at a Group Presentation

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Most people suck at presenting to big groups. It’s a shame because the ability to nail these presentations at key conferences can be once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to influence journalists, business partners, potential employees, customers and VCs. – No great presentation can be delivered like a conversation.

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Serious Presentation Tips From Standup Comics

InfoChachkie

The worlds of standup comedy and business presentations are not as disparate as they may appear at first glance. The following characteristics of a successful comedy routine are also applicable to effective business presentations: 1. The presenter must respond respectfully. A version of this article previously appeared on Inc.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

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Social Networks: Past, Present & Future. I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). And now they want to revolutionize email. Social Networking in Web 2.0. provides you.

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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. If you filibuster through long presentations then as a board we walk away understanding your company better but you don’t walk away with any real value. Below is the full presentation embedded.

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Mailing lists, email marketing, errors, oh my!

Berkonomics

Using old email lists for the first time is like eating really stale doughnuts. Email companies like Constant Contact, Mail Chimp and many others all have strict rules. Email readers, continue here…] Now the last question is a daunting one for any of us. The post Mailing lists, email marketing, errors, oh my!

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Are you ready to scrap the system and restart?  

Berkonomics

Somewhere out there is a consultant or future employee (or even suggestions from present employees) that will provide the roadmap toward making your processes run more smoothly, more quickly and more inexpensively. Yet this is not a place where most managers feel comfortable deconstructing and rebuilding.

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One of My Most Frequent Pieces of Advice: Be Politely Persistent

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Maybe they’ve hit a few set backs: They’ve struggled to raise money, they haven’t gotten press coverage or they haven’t gotten accepted to present at prestigious conferences. The 70% of entrepreneurs that simply can’t get past an un-responded-to email. Nothing beats a warm intro. Of course I felt badly.