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19 de jul. de 2016

What should go into an in-person pitch deck?

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Check out my side project Rejectionathon (discount code: EYFRIENDS), which helps founders get over their fear of rejection. The event is next weekend on July 17, 2016 in the Bay Area. I’ve previously written about the importance of having multiple decks.

1 de jul. de 2016

The ideal email deck

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Check out my side project Hustleathon, which helps founders get over their fear of rejection. The event is on July 17, 2016 in the Bay Area. Since I wrote a post on how you’ll need multiple pitch decks, I’ve gotten a number of questions around what should go into them.

26 de jun. de 2016

Best Seed Pitch Ever – AVC

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I read yesterday evening that our portfolio company Twilio, which priced its IPO last night, is going to live code from the NYSE this morning. That brought a powerful flashback to the first time I met Jeff Lawson, founder and CEO of Twilio.

28 de fev. de 2015

How Can I Make My PowerPoint Presentations Amazing?

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Dear Lifehacker, I have been tasked to make a slideshow for an event at work. I don’t want to make a generic PowerPoint with just boring text or pictures. What are some ways I can enhance the slideshow so it looks impressive and knocks the socks off my audience?


16 de jan. de 2014

Embrace the Stage Fright

http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=embrace-the-stage-fright-14-01-15

Nervous before a big interview? Or a major exam or speech? Well, whatever you do, don’t calm down. Because new research finds that people who try to relax away their performance anxiety actually mess up more than folks who just give in to the excitement.


17 de dez. de 2013

30 de nov. de 2013

The 7 Questions A Startup Should Answer in their Fund Raising Pitch

http://tomtunguz.com/pitch-deck/

Some of our companies started financing processes in earlier this quarter. At a strategy session with one of our companies, the team and I crafted the outline of the pitch deck. They asked me what questions a venture investor might ask in the initial meeting.


13 de nov. de 2013

26 de out. de 2013

Don’t Found a Company unless you Love Excel

http://ekoester.com/dont-found-a-company-unless-you-love-excel

“(Venture backed) Startups are all about math. Sooner founders realize that, the less emotional trauma & confusion they’ll experience.” - Om Malik (@om) Excel. Yes, you may scoff at it because it is a Microsoft product. Or you may thumb your nose at it because only accountants use it.


15 de out. de 2013

Closing Reflections

http://reidhoffman.org/linkedin-pitch-to-greylock/

The journey from founding, to multiple rounds of financing, to IPO, was not easy. All startups go through real Valley-of-the-Shadow moments, in which they wonder why they ever thought their business was a good idea. At LinkedIn, we had these moments.


1 de out. de 2013

Why you should pitch your business with Excel, not PowerPoint Add to ...

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/small-business/sb-money/business-funding/a-pitch-isnt-just-a-pitch-its-your-startups-guiding-light/article14440151/

For the founder who trembles at the thought of pitching to investors, a new workshop from Montreal-based FounderFuel and Real Ventures may help. Their approach to the pitch is straightforward and sensible, but they don't play down the number of hours it takes to craft, refine and deliver it.


9 de set. de 2013

Y Combinator Funding Application

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/27532820/app.html



Summer 2007Application deadline: 12 midnight (PST) April 2, 2007. Please try to answer each question in less than 120 words. We look at online demos only for the most promising applications, so don't skimp on the application because you're relying on a good demo.