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5 Tips for Pitching Investors Remotely in the Time of Coronavirus

Leading Blog

As both an individual investor and venture capitalist, I’ve taken a lot of remote pitches since the shelter-in-place order started. If your biggest strength is your technology or IP differentiation, you better have a simple visual, which makes it easy to understand while also hammering home your IP is so important.

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Stop Documenting, Start Experiencing

Harvard Business Review

Thus, the new behavior on social networks is to develop, as one venture capitalist quipped , "a precious journal of moments to look at in the future.". Said one Instagram addict about cataloging the highlights of her day, "I don't have a problem or anything.I feel I need to grab it before it's gone."

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Have You Earned the Right to Lead? Ten Deeply Destructive Mistakes That Suggest the Answer Is No (and How to Stop Making Them)

Strategy Driven

But if your employees take a risk and fail, and you come down on them like a hammer, guess what? He was named one of the country’s Top 100 venture capitalists in 2009 by AlwaysOn and has led investments in many successful high-growth companies as a partner at several Bay Area VC firms. Because innovation requires it.

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