Screening Slides Venture Capital 
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 15, 2011
This might be a VC meeting but also might just be a sales or biz dev meeting. It’s any meeting where you are in a small room and are being called on to present on some form of overhead slides. If you look at Diagram A above you’ll see that the presenters are sitting at the opposite end of the table from where the screen is.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 31, 2010
I spotted my fellow VC Leo Spiegel (from Mission Ventures) who had spoken previously to the same group and asked about his experiences. They had slides with moving images and music. Nobody wants to read your text on a big screen. I walked around to a few tables and I asked students what would interest them.
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Both Sides of the Table
JULY 25, 2010
“Yes&# was given to me by one of my favorite angel investor / seed VC’s to work with – John Greathouse of Rincon Venture Partners and author of the blog InfoChachkie that you should check out because it is filled with great info from a guy who has been a very successful operator. So what are you waiting for?
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 21, 2023
Even if you have booked an hour with a VC, you should plan to talk only for the first fifteen minutes. If you have ten minutes, that means no more than ten slides. I’ve seen several presentations that never moved past the first slide before running out of time. Then match your pace to cover all the material.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 7, 2011
.&# It was my investment philosophy that observing teams’ performance over time was far more insightful than reacting to how good of a product demo they do, how good they present Powerpoint slides or how great tech blogs say they are. I call it “focus on basecamp, not the summit.&# Let me explain.
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 30, 2010
My original thinking from Oct ’09 was, while I didn’t (and still don’t) have a crystal ball I worried that: consumers were over-stretched with debt (and make up 77% of the economy), unemployment would continue to rise, which in turn would drive the stock market south and cut the rate of M&A activity and VC investment even further.
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 29, 2020
Even if you have booked an hour with a VC, you should plan to talk only for the first fifteen minutes. If you have ten minutes, that means no more than ten slides. I’ve seen several presentations that never moved past the first slide before running out of time. Then match your pace to cover all the material.
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