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"If you would like your venture to be considered for funding, email is the best way to reach us. Please limit your presentation to no more than 20 slides or three type-written pages. Unfortunately, due to the large volume of email we receive, we can not promise a response to all inquires."

The ones that we really like, we'll just send to our product team. Those will be the ones with no response.

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Yeah, Google hasn't stolen your idea yet because they hadn't launched a venture arm to serve as a honeypot for hackers and their brilliant ideas.

Agreed. If your strategy to compete with Google is, "They haven't heard our idea yet." you're probably screwed.

Or simply the fact that you should probably have more than an idea in hand. i.e. early execution.

"We welcome new ideas. However, please do not send us information that you consider to be confidential or proprietary. Because of what we do, we receive a high volume of business plans, presentations, pitches, memos - you get the picture - and because these materials are often similar, because they come to us in a variety of forms, and because we read a ton of stuff, we cannot and do not accept responsibility for protecting against the misuse or disclosure of any information unless we have expressly agreed (in writing) to do so." -- http://www.google.com/ventures/contact.html

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