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Quick Practical, Tactical Tips for Presentations

Both Sides of the Table

Today’s post is a subtle one about positioning yourself in a presentation. It’s any meeting where you are in a small room and are being called on to present on some form of overhead slides. From witnessing all of these presentations I can tell you that there is a right place and a wrong place to sit.

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How to Nail a Group Presentation

Both Sides of the Table

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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Spruce Looks To Help Men More Fashionable With App

socalTECH

Spruce has launched a brand new app for the iPhone, which is aimed at helping men discover what the startup calls "amazing" products. The startup uses thumbs-up and thumbs-down votes to help learn a user''s preferences, and then tailors the products it finds and presents to the user. The company said it is backed by.

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Free Movie Screening Social Media Week

SoCal Tech Calendar

Thursday, September 22, 2011 -- Free Movie Screening of Participant Media's Circumstance presented by Take Part and SMW LA. Attend a Movies and Social Media event hosted by the industry leader in social action campaigns, Participant Media which has the current top two box office leading films in distribution (Contagion and The Help).

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Spruce Looks To Help Men Be More Fashionable With App

socalTECH

Spruce has launched a brand new app for the iPhone, which is aimed at helping men discover what the startup calls "amazing" products. The startup uses thumbs-up and thumbs-down votes to help learn a user''s preferences, and then tailors the products it finds and presents to the user. The company said it is backed by.

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How to Handle a VC Presentation with No Deck

Both Sides of the Table

I believe in this so much that, despite my post advising you to be prepared for the *norm* in VC, I wrote a post about a company that came in for a presentation and never even got the slides out or presented a demo. The “Triple Play&# of VC Presentations. Be ready to map your presentation to their preferred method.

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The Pan-Cancer Screen: Still Early for Prime Time

Xconomy

I would be ecstatic to have a simple tool for my patients that could detect cancers like ovarian and pancreatic that currently have no effective screening approach. The most popular approach is screening blood for circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA), which several companies claim to reliably detect at very low levels in the blood.