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The First VC Meeting (Post 4 of Many)

If you haven’t read any previous posts in this series consider starting here at the start.  It is sequential.  If you want to go to the post immediately prior to this one it is here. By this point in the VC pitch

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The First VC Meeting (Post 3 of Many)

If you haven’t read any previous posts in this series consider starting here at the start.  It is sequential.  If you want to go to the post immediately prior to this one it is here. So now you’ve told me

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The First VC Meeting (Post 2 of Many)

I am doing a series of posts about the first VC pitch.  If you haven’t already read Post 1 please start here. So now you’ve told me your bio and how it’s relevant to what you’re now doing.  Now it’s

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The First VC Meeting (Post 1 of Many)

I see a minimum of 3-5 pitches per week and often I see up to 10.  I also have raised more than $40 million as an entrepreneur and CEO across multiple rounds of venture capital in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003

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How to Nail the Elevator Pitch

This is part of my ongoing series on Startup Advice. This was one of the first posts I wrote last year when I started BSOTT.  Since I published it before having a large following and since it’s such and important topic

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Mark Suster is a 2x entrepreneur who has gone to the Dark Side of VC. He joined GRP Partners in 2007 as a General Partner after selling his company to Salesforce.com. He focuses on early-stage technology companies. Read more about Mark.

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