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What Would it Look Like if Elon Musk Pitched a VC Today?

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His imagination of what is wrong with VC has captured perfectly in satirical format what ails our industry. It is Nikolas Tesla pitching a VC firm. The back-and-forth between Andy & me if anything I hope just raised the issue a bit more about entrepreneur & VC relationships. He knew me then. They are also sad.

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Entrepreneur’s Don’t Think Enough. Here’s What You Can Do About It …

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Board Meetings. I have my best creative break-throughs this way. I’ve talked in the past about how I manage my own creative process. If you struggle to find moments of creativity you might read that post. I also have huge creative spurts when I run. Conferences. I get sucked up in “Do” mode.

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Two Amazing Women Setting Out on Their Startup Journey

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bang on the windows of a board meeting recently and stick his tongue out at all of us. They pitched on a Wednesday. She talks about creative design of websites and physical products – in our case – stickers. Soleil at Chief Creative Officer. Unsurprisingly for Kara is was the VC connections.

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Five Lessons Learned from the Ample Hills $8 Million Raise

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Board meetings at @amplehills are dangerous. Would we pitch Series A players? It's too easy to think that if you tilt the pitch just a little one way or the other, that's going to make the difference, but that's Monday morning quarterbacking. Did that seed make this round our Series A? Who cares what we called it?

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The Fantastical, Stupendous, Wonkariffic Tale of How Ample Hills Creamery Raised a $4 Million Venture Capital Round

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Creativity is at the heart of everything they do. That story actually begins about eleven or twelve years ago, with a little bit of VC mentoring. After getting to know Ben from the tech community, he pitched me his concept for a CPG food company. Just face + cup. By the end of her snack, chocolate covers her entire face.

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How to Not Suck at a Group Presentation

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It’s a shame because the ability to nail these presentations at key conferences can be once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to influence journalists, business partners, potential employees, customers and VCs. This was evident at the Twiistup pre-event company pitch last week at UCLA. You’re on stage!

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Why Startups Need to Blog (and what to talk about …)

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But should you actually write one if you’re a startup, an industry figure (lawyer, banker) or VC? Within 2 years I was getting 400,000 views / month and had been voted the 2nd most respected VC in the country by an independent survey of entrepreneurs, The Funded and sentiment analysis. They’re mine because I’m a VC.

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