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JANUARY 13, 2011

I would argue that this mostly consists of consumer Internet companies (although not exclusively) and it is predominantly early-stage people who are product gurus and have a mildly technical bend to them. I’m a product geek more than a spreadsheet ninja. The product feedback will be invaluable. Call an audible.

Venture Capital 299

Venture Capital Slides Technical Advisors Startup 299

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MAY 24, 2018

You company is the product and you’re selling an equity ownership in your company but much more broadly you’re selling trust & confidence that you’re going to build something enormously valuable and that you’re going to be enjoyable to work hand-in-hand with over the coming decade of each other’s lives.

Venture Capital 314

Venture Capital Technical Review Invest Slides 314

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DECEMBER 19, 2011

The money slide is the graphic below. He argues for a world he calls POSO (post social) in which we will only use social applications which drastically cut down our time involvement and/or increase our productivity. We had to develop whole frameworks of “middleware” to deal with this problem.

Web 355

Web HTML Mobile Social Network 355

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JANUARY 17, 2011

The need for creativity extends well beyond product design. When I need to give a speech and I’m writing a slide for my deck, I think up the story in my mind that I’m going to tell for this slide. Yet most startups seem to constrain creativity to product design. Many people are visual thinkers.

Writing 356

Writing Startup Ideas Summary 356