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The Power of “In Person” – Why Distributed Teams are Less Effective

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In the era of Skype, web conferencing tools and collaboration software conventional wisdom says that distributed startup teams can be just as effective as those that are in person. Conventional wisdom is wrong. The CEO weighs in with his perspectives, the head of product management disputes his conclusions and the marketing VP has a different take.

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How to Handle a VC Presentation with No Deck

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I wrote the summary notes in this blog post. 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. Powerpoint can be especially useful for platform businesses or B2B. That notes only told part of the story. No, the ideas aren’t conflicting.