Chris Sacca, a Principal for Business Development at Google, has a great post on how to pitch to his company here: ‘What is left?’: Hints for proposing deals . . . (or, “My word, this inbox is a mess”).

In a nutshell: keep your pitch short, relevant, differentiated… and stick to e-mail (telephones and meetings are so yesterday).

I guess Chris has a very intense job these days. In an environment where VCs are increasingly concerned about Web 2.0 investments, entrepreneurs are trying to sell their businesses to large media companies like Upcoming to Yahoo or Weblogs to AOL (yes, going public is so yesterday too).

Here is an equivalent post on how Microsoft thinks about investments in its ecosystem. (via Don Dodge )