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The Five "Ups" of Getting Early Stage VC Deal Flow

This is going to be BIG.

How do you get 150+ VCs to show up for something? nextNYC, the startup events platform I run, produces the largest formal VC/Founder intro event at NY Tech Week. Last year, over 150 VCs participated and were looking forward to having even more. No VC on the face of the earth has a magical Good Deals Only stream of opportunities.

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Interview: James Burnes, Ministry of Awesome

NZ Entrepreneur

And in around 2018, 2019, there was a strategic focus by the Board of Trustees to start looking at how can we more specifically support and service founders in the Greater Canterbury region to help them pursue their ideas. So we’ve also eliminated these high-end production demo days, the big events. James Burnes: Absolutely.

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How to Not Suck at a Group Presentation

Both Sides of the Table

You’re not lecturing to a college class, you’re not at a cocktail party and you’re not chatting with a small group in a board meeting. If you demo your product (which is always great) then tell us part of the story while you’re demo’ing. You’re on stage! NEVER lead with features.

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Some Reflections on VC Investment Decisions

Both Sides of the Table

Don’t even get me started on Demo Days. You could spent 20 days / year at Demo Days now. I told my friend that I felt that in 2014 too many new VCs feel the pressure to chase deals, to be a part of syndicates with other brand names and to pounce on top of every startup whose numbers are trending up quickly. I don’t.

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How to Win Consulting, Board, and Deal Roles with Private Equity and Venture Capital Funds

David Teten VC

See How to negotiate a partner role at a VC or private equity firm.) You can work as a consultant, an interim executive, a board member, a deal executive partnering to buy a company, an executive in residence, or as an entrepreneur in residence. . At Versatile VC , we’ve used all these models. Preqin (free demo).

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Please Help Me Congratulate Jordan Hudson as @UpfrontVC’s Newest Investment Principal

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What is a principal at a VC firm and how does it work at Upfront Ventures? ” Associates have different functions at different VCs. VC firm admin. VC firm policy or fund analysis. Helping be the VC “presence” at key events. inside insight into VC decision-making. Industry reviews.

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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.

As it is, I’m a paid Canva user and you definitely wouldn’t have counted me in that target demo as narrowly defined by Adobe’s core audience ten years ago. The best thing they can do is get on board early in the right way. There are a lot of parallels here to Web 2.0 and the earliest emergence of UGC.