How to Be Funny: President Bush does Standup

Every year, the president does a monologue at the annual Correspondents' Dinner in Washington, DC. Blogger/consultant John Kinde has a copy of the monologue on his blog and analyzes the jokes. I've done standup in past (not well, I might add) and I found John's analysis to be right on the money.

If you're looking to write your own jokes, check out his blog. After all, nothing wakes up a VC during a pitch presentation quicker than some good insult humor.

(via Ben Casanocha)

The VC Perspective: What’s Important to VCs When You’re Preparing Your Pitch

1. Demo - Crucial. We only believe what we can see.

2. Pitch - Crucial. It better excite us so much that we forget there's a Blackberry buzzing in our pants.

3. Executive Summary - Very Important. We need this to remind us how excited we got during the pitch.

4. Business Plan - Kinda Important. We probably won't read it if we liked the pitch and demo, but our junior associates will check it for accuracy so you better do it well.

5. Financial Forecast - Not Important. Yeah, we all know it's bulls**t, so don't waste your time on it. But you better project 50 million in revenue by Year 4 or we won't consider you a large enough opportunity to invest in, sorry.