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How to Handle a VC Presentation with No Deck

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I talked about this in the TWiVC video but I didn’t do a good enough job of writing it up in the summary notes in the post. I think the norm in the industry is still to see Powerpoint slides and I wouldn’t hold this against anybody. Mobile app? I’m usually itching to just see what you’ve built.

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The Changing Structure of the VC Industry

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Always-on connectivity of mobile (164m US smartphone users). Note the full presentation deck with additional slides can be found on SlideShare here or you can simply scroll through it at the bottom of this post.]. Just 3 years ago there was talk of institutional investors “not being able to write small enough checks.”

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I Know Everybody Told You to Send Your Fund-Raising Decks as a Link.

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I know that you can use an email system with this to track my open rate, whether I forwarded the email, the IP address where I read it, whether I was on a mobile device or a wired computer and you can tell who else read the document. after all you aren’t presenting this at TED. What should be in your deck?

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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If you want the full SlideShare deck with many slides not in either post it’s in this link –> The LA Tech Market. Of course most of you know SnapChat, Tinder & Whisper and many people immediately associate the success of Los Angeles under the SoLoMo banner (Social, Local, Mobile) and you wouldn’t be wrong.

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How to Stay in Control of Your Meetings

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If you provide these slides in advance you give board members a chance to reflect and come prepared for a real discussion. Allowing mobile phones, iPads and computers to be used freely. In a perfect world you’d know the issues you want to discuss well in advance and you’d prepare a deck to guide the discussion.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

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I spoke a lot about the need for “personal branding” which I plan to write about soon. And we had these vans and mobile kegs in the back, and we would go to golf courses. It was like nobody would give me any respect and they just saw me as the guy who goes and talks to senior people who does PowerPoint slides.

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How to Present at Big Meetings without Going Down a Rat Hole

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I’m writing this post as part of my series with Advice on Raising Venture Capital but will file it under Sales Tips as well since it applies equally to both scenarios. I have a few slides later that address that.&# (obviously if you say that you need to come back to the question either later or after the meeting. Congratulations.