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How to Handle a VC Presentation with No Deck

Both Sides of the Table

I recently filmed a show for This Week in Venture Capital in which I talked about how to prepare for a VC meeting: whom you’ll meet, who should attend from your side, what materials you should bring and how you should run the meeting. The “Triple Play&# of VC Presentations. But take prompts from the VC.

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How to Improve Your Odds of Getting to Yes with a VC — “Land and Expand”

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In order to understand how to “get to yes” with a VC you first need to understand how VC partnerships make decisions and then you can understand how to increase your odds of closing a deal. VC Partnerships Start by understanding how many partners are at the firm you are approaching. Reciprocity is equally destructive.

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Do you really know how to learn?

This is going to be BIG.

Sure, eight years of Jesuit high school and college gave me frameworks for learning, but it was never made obvious what I'd use them for and how they tied back into the outside world. I don't know if it was by design that I reference Descartes when I think about risk and uncertainty or by accident, but I wish I had started doing that earlier.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

They both reference the writing of Dror Poleg on this topic so I will link to his blog as well. We call it FrameWork and it will be opening next month. FrameWork is just an example of the many ways that knowledge workers will choose to work going forward. We’re Never Going Back – Packy McCormick. But guardrails?

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How Many Investors are Too Many?

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When this first ran on TechCrunch I got the greatest comment in the world that I had to repeat here, “VC’s are like martinis: the first is good, the second one great, and the third is a headache.&# I understand the appeal of having many VC firms on your cap table. I love that. And it’s kind of true.

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Is Strategic Money an Oxymoron?

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This is part of my ongoing Raising Venture Capital (VC) series. So I thought I’d try to lay out a framework for how you should think about it as many you will inevitably be faced with this experience. OK, I know this is true with VC also, but to a lesser extent. The topic of &# strategic&# investors came up.

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Finding Founder-Market-Geography Fit

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Founder-market-geography fit refers to the optimal alignment of three critical dimensions: the founding team’s competencies, the market demand for the startup’s solution, and the geographic location where the startup is based. Let’s get into it. What is Founder-Market-Geography Fit?

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