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Tuesday, December 16th, 2008As you may know I work extensively with 3 of the World’s Top 10 business schools and I regularly have to help MBA’s work on their business plans. In working with them I help them shape their plans and eventually…
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Finding the right VC investor…now is more important than ever!
Saturday, November 29th, 2008Below is the presentation given during by Adeo Ressi at Web 2.0 in New York. The talk focuses on helping companies find the “right” investor, versus just any interested party.
It’s a very useful deck and from a very thoughtful guy that…
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More VC training on pitching and presenting
Monday, November 17th, 2008In my other blog posts on this matter I have said a few times that really what you are trying to do once you have got in the door is to have a sensible, logical and easy to understand dialog…
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Making your venture more fundable by removing potential red flags
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008This is another question I have had to deal with and have got asked in the past. How do you structure a business, or hire or develop a startup in a way not to turn off the VC’s at a…
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Even more advice on presenting to investors…preparation is key
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008You must know what they say about the 5 P’s, preparation prevents "piss poor" performance!
THE PREPARATION PROCESS:
Identify the 3-5 key points you want the audience to remember. These will inevitably be the key points of the investment case. Build the presentation…
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The current economy…the Silver Lining
Thursday, November 6th, 2008With every cloud comes a silver lining…right!
I am glad I am not alone in this thinking and this week a friend and my US lawyer John Montgomery sent me and others in his circle an uplifting memo that I thought…
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What Compensation Should You Give Your Team, according to the VC?
Monday, November 3rd, 2008I found this useful feedback to a question I often get here, Matt McCall of Draper Fisher Jurvetson Portage Venture Partners lays out a useful set of numbers he thinks are correct as a VC for 2008.
I thought I would…
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Why startup pitches fail
Thursday, October 30th, 2008Interesting spin on the VC pitch at Venture Hacks by Eric Ries, a founder of IMVU and an advisor to Kleiner Perkins (He’s also a really nice and modest guy!):
Summary: Pitches usually fail because they answer the wrong questions. The right questions…
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Looking for VC funding? seeing who is doing the most deals may help with who’s best to call.
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008In the August Issue of Entrepreneur magazine they had an interesting article that lists the "most active" early stage VC investors.
For those trying to get funded this is an important distinction, why? because those doing moire deals maybe better bets. You…
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Top 5 ways to get to pitch a VC even if you don’t know any
Sunday, October 19th, 2008In a previous post I gave you my take on raising funds in 2008 from the VC community, this was drawn from VCs I know and other entrepreneurs: Permanent Link to Important things to know about VC funding in 2008
In…
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