Five partners of Draper Fisher Jurvetson gathered in their small, glassed-in conference room to hear a new business pitch at 8:30 one morning last spring.

FORBES: The wild bunch

Here is an excerpt from a speech that I gave today to a room full of seasoned pros at the Mirren Business Development Conference in New York City, with the goal that they make bold choices (more on that later).

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On a recent afternoon in the nation's capital, dozens of business and government executives from across the U.S. huddled in a hotel conference room to swap ideas on energy efficiency.

FORBES: Magazine Article

The board had been sitting in a conference room for three hours prior, talking in great detail about the business, but there is absolutely no question that I learned more in the 30 minutes of that sales pitch than I did in the board meeting.

FORBES: Show & Tell: The Importance of Neverending Diligence

"We've been out here operating around the periphery, taking all the business we can, " Pottruck says, waving his hand furiously over an imaginary battlefield on his conference room table at the San Francisco headquarters.

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Business users will now be able to wirelessly stream the same presentation to dual displays or projectors in a conference room.

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