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How to Be a VC: Being Open

This is going to be BIG.

I always get asked how to get into VC and so I think a lot about what it takes to do the job well. Practicing the word no as many times as a VC does means you have to fight not to have your mind close on you. For some, VC is about the picking rather than the fostering and growing. True creativity requires some trade-offs.”

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How to Not Suck at a Group Presentation

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I always tell people that if you’re not creative in how you tell stories the simplest way to do so is by telling “a day in the life&# of your potential user. If you demo your product (which is always great) then tell us part of the story while you’re demo’ing. The bring your product to life.

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Pitch me!

This is going to be BIG.

It''s a co-working space full of creatives and freelancers, most of whom who have never pitched an investor, and probably never seen a startup pitch either. Their reaction to what I do day in and day out is very telling about how a lot of people, including VCs themselves, think of the job. Well, I guess I''m not surprised.

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Creating an Awesome Conference: Brooklyn Beta

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There was one other VC in the room, Charlie O'Donnell, who makes it a practice to be everywhere something is interesting happening. And I saw a bunch of demos of beta services spliced in between the talks.” You probably didn’t hear about Brooklyn Beta before Fred wrote about it : “This is my kind of conference.

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How to Run Better Presentations & Improve Results

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Understand Personality Types – One of the benefits of working for a big company (Accenture) was that we had lots of speakers come in and train us in topics like leadership, creativity, presentations, strategy, etc. And because as a VC or as a CEO or senior exec you get presented to all the time we’re extra sensitive to it.

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How Generative AI is Going to Change Your Life and Mess Everything Up in the Process

This is going to be BIG.

Or, it’s just what “generative AI” does with a series of uploaded images of the two of us if given some creative prompting. It’s also interesting to think about what AI will do to the creative workforce. Now, with generative AI, creators will only be limited by their creativity and not by their directly applicable manual skillset.

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The Battle for Indoors

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Today, at Demo, SocialSignIn launched to "solve the problem of businesses knowing more about their online visitors than those standing in their physical location." This could mean loyalty, or something more creative. And they''re not alone. Disclosure, I have a business relationship with the company.) Got these in a 12??".