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Miami: A hot spot for venture capitalists
(from my guest column in the Miami Herald) A few weeks ago, I had my first-ever opportunity to visit the Miami startup ecosystem. I was visiting as part of Terrapinn Private Equity World, a leading...
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How to Present so People will Hear
You probably have to make presentations, but does the audience hear what you’re saying? And do they believe it? Based on my experience in investment banking and strategy consulting, I’ve put together...
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How To Add Powerful (and Legal) Images To Your Presentations
What do you remember better? Pictures or words? The evidence is clear: people have better recall for images than text. Including attractive images that dramatize your speaking points will...
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Turning the Tables: How to Make Venture Capitalists Pitch You
I’m returning to Capital on Stage this fall in New York. Last year, 19 other VC fund Partners and I pitched to 170 attendees; this year the conference organizers expect a similar turnout. You can see...
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How to Keep the People Attending Your Conference Alive
Do you organize events? Do you like your attendees alive? Conference organizers like their attendees to be energetic, enthusiastic, and preferably, alive. However, I see a lot of conference...
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How to Judge an Investment Proposal
I periodically serve as a judge at pitch events for companies raising funding. In every case, I’m assessing each company against ffVC’s standard criteria for investing. You can see a video of a recent...
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Startup Grind Interview
Last month I did an on-stage interview with Peter Crysdale of Startup Grind. You can read a summary at AlleyWatch. For fun, I did an on-stage vertical pushup at the end of the interview (skip to 44:00).
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How Large Corporations Can Learn From the Innovation Economy
One of the core functions of a VC is to identify the next generation of disruptive companies. I presented last month to a Microsoft senior executive offsite on how large corporations can do the same,...
View ArticlePrivate Equity and Social Media
I’m giving a talk next month on “How Private Equity Funds Raise Capital and Source Deals with Social Media” at Terrapinn’s Private Equity Latin America & Real Estate Latin America conference in...
View ArticleFree Video: How to Hack Your MBA
Evisors just posted the video from my recent webinar on “How to Hack Your MBA”. Since 1992, I’ve been working on a book tentatively titled “Hack your Education: How to Squeeze Maximum Value from...
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NY Tech Volunteers Needed – Help Out!
Hurricane Sandy has done some significant damage in NYC, and ff Venture Capital is looking for ways to help out. We currently have extra desks in our midtown office, and free wifi. If your company...
View ArticleRebooting PEVCTech: Events in NY and Boston
We’re now rebooting PEVCTech, our community for investors and technologists responsible for investing in private companies, primarily at private equity and venture capital funds. Our focus is on...
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Social Fortress publicly launches at TechCrunch Disrupt
Adam Ghetti, founder of our portfolio company Social Fortress and an expert in security, publicly presented Social Fortress for the first time at this week’s TechCrunch Disrupt Conference. I met Adam...
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Notes from PluggedIn Ventures Real Time Data, Content, & Analytics Roundtable
Gregory Sanzone, an intern at Parse.ly, took details notes on today’s Real Time Data, Content, & Analytics Roundtable, hosted by PluggedIn Ventures. Real Time Data Real time data is valuable in...
View ArticleDisruptive Companies in Asset Management
We recently hosted an idea dinner on “Disruptive Companies in the Asset Management Industry”. The most attractive industries to disrupt are highly profitable ones, and asset management is traditionally...
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ER Accelerator Demo Day–10 great companies
This morning, we attended a very high quality demo day hosted by Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator, where ten companies pitched their ideas. (Disclosure: John Frankel and I are mentors.) This is...
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Corporations speak: How I think about buying your startup
I’m kicking off a new series on this blog: detailed notes on events of interest to the investing and technology community. Conrad Wadowski, Business Development at Xamtech, is initiating with his...
View ArticleOnline Dating is the Future of Your Business
I gave a talk today as part of TEDx Silicon Valley on “Online Dating is the Future of Your Business”. Here’s the video and an expanded version of the slide deck. In the talk I discuss how some of the...
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Visit to Case Foundation and Startup America
On February 16, I visited Washington, DC, where I attended an HBS Club of DC lunch on the Case Foundation and Startup America. Michael Smith, leader of the Social Innovation team at the Case...
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Developers of NYC Startup Tour to Visit ff Venture Capital
After work on April 18, thirty-five curious developers will visit the ff Venture Capital offices to learn about our fund and listen to technical talks by the founders and technical experts of Parsely...
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