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

Both Sides of the Table

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. Are Pitch Decks becoming obsolete? Human Computer Interaction.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

The basic conclusion was that it was a bit premature if you were talking about a serious, funded start-up. We'll see where my opinion goes after hearing the presentations. He sees this as similar to what happened with SMTP, POP, HTTP, etc. Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning.

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