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MAY 21, 2019

A Short Presentation I was invited to do a keynote presentation at the Khosla Ventures CEO Summit this week in Sausalito. If you filibuster through long presentations then as a board we walk away understanding your company better but you don’t walk away with any real value. Below is the full presentation embedded.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2018

I don’t really want to tell you about his presentation because it was such a masterpiece, so profound & insightful that I’d urge you just to watch it yourself. I promise you insights, entertainment, emotion, thoughtful challenges and a bit of celebrity guest appearances :) TED?

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FEBRUARY 6, 2013

And the folks at Startup Grind have been kind enough to invite me to present this morning in Mountain View on the topic. Since it is sometimes hard to get the full context from a conference presentation, I have included blog posts links on the topics in which I have written fuller posts in the presentation itself. and so forth.

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MARCH 5, 2020

No doubt it’s a richer presentation with audio and voiceover so I hope that SaaStr is recording and releasing presentations. This is a message we have been delivering to our portfolio privately so we figured it made sense to make it more public broadly in case its of any help to others. I welcome any feedback.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

As an entrepreneur, I understand your passion when pitching your solution to investors and customers, but passion alone won’t make one more technology pitch stand out above all the rest. I can tell you from my own experience as an advisor and an investor, what everyone remembers is a good personal story.

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TechEmpower

MAY 1, 2014

The NUMA architecture presented a variety of challenges including unexpected difficulty scaling the database servers to utilize all available CPU cores. We are presently looking for a generalist web/mobile developer to expand our team. For example, we are using MySQL 5.5 About TechEmpower.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 23, 2017

But he dilutes his effectiveness with wordy PowerPoint presentations. It has become a long running joke between us, as I often remind him that most of us have a very limited attention span and ability to recall important points from a presentation. Note the title and tone of these insights. Short, to the point.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The new Beyond Burger patties are designed to mirror the options of beef in the market with the presentation of a lower fat patty option and a new version of its higher fat content option that the brand promises will be its “juiciest” patty for the “meatiest” Beyond Meat patty on the market.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Now, he and Gudanis are trying to solve the issues of identity access management that the new, ubiquitous cloud computing model presents for security officers and developers. Those cloud technologies presented new challenges for the kind of privileged access management technologies that Poghosyan had developed.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2019

I know many executives want to “stay productive” while they’re in the meeting and not being called on but if they’re not present and participating then you might as well leave them out of the room. Either ask them to dial in or if they come ask them to really be present. My goal is to make sure every member is present.”

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NOVEMBER 2, 2014

I often felt like it was a sort of Meeting Tourette’s Syndrome problem I had but when people present and move very slowly covering obvious ground and making no point the pressure in my builds and builds until I almost accidentally blurt out uncontrollably. This hit me over the head. I’ve always struggled at meetings.

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JUNE 9, 2013

The 20-minute video of my presentation is here if you’re interested. You can of course view the presentation in SlideShare above or download it directly for free here. One area I didn’t talk about in the presentation that really interests me and seems underserved is helping to empower senior citizens. Collaboration.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 28, 2018

Somewhere out there is a consultant or future employee (or even suggestions from present employees) that will provide the roadmap toward making your processes run more smoothly, more quickly and more inexpensively. Yet this is not a place where most managers feel comfortable deconstructing and rebuilding.

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TechEmpower

DECEMBER 17, 2013

However, hhvm trails plain PHP in the Fortunes test presently. The HipHop PHP VM with no framework and thanks in part to the MySQL driver for PHP, yields dominion over the Updates test. HHVM is impressive in the multiple query test as well. Implementation details may be at play here.

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TechEmpower

JULY 31, 2023

Startup Metrics with Dave McClure Dave McClure has a great presentation on Startup Metrics where he points to some additional metrics that are useful to consider: A : Acquisition - Where / what channels do users come from? Be sure to check out the entire presentation. Don’t overcomplicate things with reporting tools.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2018

The short answer is that you should have multiple versions of your “pitch deck” (a short, visual presentation in Keynote, PPT or similar and shared as a PDF) and each occasion has a specific goal. go back and present them. (This is part of a series on how to improve your fund raising game. I recommend sub 10MB. Don’t send these?—?go

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2015

I am good at cranking out documents, memos, presentations, letters and spreadsheets. I write my presentations the night before. I even learned how to mark somebody present who was absent. So if I’ve committed to delivering a presentation – you’re going to get my best effort. I rush the last 20%.

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Startup San Diego

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

On February 19th, 2025 our developer and startup community came together for the first edition of the FirstWave Innovator HackNight, presented by Neo4j. This event welcomed over 250+ attendees at […] The post StartupSD FirstWave Innovator HackNight presented by Neo4j Recap appeared first on Startup San Diego.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Each CEO is asked to make a deep presentation once a year in which he or she starts with personal and business goals for the coming year followed by concerns as to how to reach these goals. It is from over a thousand of these CEO presentations over the years that I attempt to make these generalities.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 27, 2014

I recently attended and presented at Dave McClure’s PreMoney conference in San Francisco. Here is the video of the presentation that I gave that preceded our debate. But here is the deck I used to present before our panel if you haven’t seen it already: Final 2014 pre money deck from Mark Suster. tl;dr version.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 8, 2023

But he dilutes his effectiveness with wordy PowerPoint presentations. It has become a long running joke between us, as I often remind him that most of us have a very limited attention span and ability to recall important points from a presentation. Note the title and tone of these insights. Short, to the point.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2013

You feel good about yourselves because you escape the board meeting with no controversy and you feel good about your presentation and all of the positive reinforcement. Presenting at Meetings without Going Down a Rathole (this was written for VC pitches but many lessons apply). Board Observers & Advisory Boards -.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 8, 2024

If not, there are alternatives, such as raising initial capital from friends and family, before leaving the lifeboat of a present job. If there is enough freedom to make that leap, then the journey can more safely begin.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

When meeting with investors or even your board, during the period devoted to feedback after your presentation, you will hear comments and recommendations that don’t resonate with you. Plan to incorporate the appropriate responses to earlier questions in the presentation to avoid those being repeated. first appeared on BERKONOMICS.

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MAY 22, 2019

We know that good visual storytelling can be persuasive and we know that it is also important to retaining key information after a presentation has been completed or a report has been shared. Think of time spent outlining presentations and swapping online and offline notes with co-authors before you even start building.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Each CEO is asked to make a deep presentation once a year in which he or she starts with personal and business goals for the coming year followed by concerns as to how to reach these goals. It is from over a thousand of these CEO presentations over the years that I attempt to make the following generalities.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 3, 2015

A company presents. The best entrepreneurs make decisions quickly and are at best right 70% of the time but recover quickly when presented with new data. A typical investment discussion is not a bed of roses. The sponsoring partner makes the case why they are in favor of the deal. And what most startups don’t realize.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 21, 2021

When making a presentation to a new audience, the smart thing to do, if there is an opportunity, is to ask your audience by show of hands, if they have some knowledge of your industry or space. And if you are making a one-to-one presentation, don’t start without a conversation about the other person’s knowledge of your space.

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TechEmpower

APRIL 21, 2015

For a bit of novelty, we are presently testing our benchmarks on a Raspberry Pi 2 Model B environment. We have received a great deal of Windows help in the past, but we don''t have the internal capacity to keep it current with the evolution of the project. If the results are interesting, we may include this environment in Round 11.

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TechEmpower

MAY 17, 2013

Note that the Windows configuration presently retains the Linux-hosted database server—only the web/application server is running Windows Server 2012. We suspect there is room for improvement and we would be particularly interested in community recommendations for tuning the performance of the Windows environment.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2014

I presented the deck below – which was prepared with the great help of Upfront Venture’s Principal Jordan Hudson – at Dave McClure’s must attend event called PreMoney with much more data and narrative than I had in my blog post.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 1, 2018

I learned from this that there are times when members of the board are appropriately brought into an operating group, and certainly times when the board should hear from vice presidents presenting their issues in a board meeting. Now insert your position, no matter how low or high in the organization. I thought so.

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APRIL 17, 2013

You gear your who team up for your TC Disrupt presentation, your interview with Kara Swisher, your graduation day from YC and waiting for the product success. So the sooner you’re live the sooner you’ll be able to separate your own internal BS from what the market really wants and thinks.

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MAY 11, 2014

When our boys were young you chose to sacrifice your own career to be more present in their lives. While I don’t diminish my own role in raising our children, of course I know that all of the little touches that come from you are what truly shapes their everyday life. And Moms everywhere.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2016

I wrote this presentation below that gives you a little more visual sense of what I mean. Venture capitalists raise money with a goal of returning 4x the amount they raise to their Limited Partners (LPs). And unless they have enormous outcomes it’s nearly impossible to hit this goal. I hope you enjoy it.

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TechEmpower

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This presents businesses with an opportunity to enhance their search functionalities for both internal and external users. Artificial Intelligence (AI), and particularly Large Language Models (LLMs), have significantly transformed the search engine as we’ve known it.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2014

When you hire somebody really strong in this function you can also give her the task of creating your board presentations. This behavior very often comes out in meetings and presentations as the leader talks over his staff, tops & tails everything his team says or is downright condescending or rude. CEO’s need leverage.

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