board mix-use pitching 
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 30, 2014
There are some smart if not somewhat cerebral bloggers I read who say that you shouldn’t take any startup advice at all because it’s too generalized to be useful to your situation. You start to test out whose opinions mapped best to your own situation and whether following their advice would have been useful. Triangulate.
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 22, 2014
I was at an alumni dinner at UCSD (I am on the alumni board) and a group of people were talking about how their kids use UberX to get rides home from parties at night. The author followed an Uber driver around and used it as evidence of why Uber drivers hate the service. But this is a high-class problem they solve for me.
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This is going to be BIG.
DECEMBER 26, 2011
One of the best things any investor can do is to pull back from the day to day of getting pitches and think about high level trends. With the release of iCloud, that's less of an advantage now than it used to be. Adding a phone to that mix as the person paying seeing unnecessarily complicated, especially given the battery life issue.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 23, 2017
Because I’ve observed this process dozens and dozens of times both as somebody who has had to raise capital for nearly 20 years himself and as an investor on the board of companies where we’re raising money — I thought I’d jot down some thoughts for those who will raise in the years ahead. One very effective way is to use your broader team.
StartupNation
NOVEMBER 21, 2021
In the startup world, it’s pitch decks, not business plans that get companies funded. Making a pitch deck is an art, a science, but most importantly, a story. Angel investors and venture capitalists have also learned to expect a standard pitch deck as the first filter when evaluating a company to invest in.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 26, 2023
based agtech startup that’s using computer vision AI plus farm-sized proprietary machinery to expand crop yields. “They’ve using a depth-sensing camera with the 3D piece in it to determine the size of that head. So the pitch is this is an even greener plant protein. What is automation good for?
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 5, 2010
In in the early 90′s I was in my early 20′s and I programmed on mainframe computers using COBOL, CICS and DB2. We had email, instant messaging, group calendars, discussion boards, etc. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML.
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