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Serious Presentation Tips From Standup Comics

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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

Both Sides of the Table

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 ). asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. cheap accessible digital hardware].

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The Best VC Meetings are Debates not Sales

Both Sides of the Table

There is one classic mistake that I see across both types of meetings – “the tell & sell&# presentation. This involves a person who leads a PowerPoint presentation in which the presenter feels more comfortable racing through pre-practiced slides and rattling off charts & bullet points than having a discussion.

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Social Media for Service Professionals

SoCal CTO

I did a presentation about the use of Social Media to a great group of people who mostly are different kinds of service professionals (attorneys, accountants, consultants, etc.). I promised that I would do a follow-up post with some thoughts out of the presentation and providing links. Instead, I think of it like a presentation.

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

SoCal CTO

Both Sides of the Table , July 22, 2010 An updated Digital Trends presentation - Jeff Hilimire , June 2, 2010 I do what I hate - Jessica Mah , January 7, 2010 Startup Equity Allocation - charliecrystle.com , January 11, 2010 When good investment decisions end up backing more women CEOs: Conversation with Cameron Lester at Azure Capital.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

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RSS was something that had appeared.” “….I The value of Pitch Decks; Brad’s personal preferences on deal presentation; and Brad’s practice of accepting cold approaches via email. Very few people can do a good job with a presentation that is emailable.”. You still need the presentation to back that up.

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Here are 10 Tips from BuzzFeed to Make Your Content Go Viral

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I’ll write a post on how to give feedback to employees and then I’ll get emails from people telling me they forwarded it to their whole team. Give up page views – Many websites give you presentations or lists and make you scroll through 10 pages to see the entire list. When it’s personal, it gets shared a lot.

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