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Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurial ‘Haiku’ Contest

Last week I started a new feature on this site specifically for first-time entrepreneurs: A repository of quotes, tips and advice collected from around the web, but also contributed by some of the most experienced and respected minds in entrepreneurship, technology, and venture investing. I have been posting (and tweeting)

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How Most Young Entrepreneurs Appear to Investors

This is gem of a video: In front of a roomful of the best and the brightest investors (the Venture Capital Fundraising Club of Silicon Valley), here’s a vivid example of an investor pitch that seems to have all the right elements: Big vision. An energetic, articulate and likable young

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Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurial Insight by a Coffee Shop

I am pretty sure the business owner drew the window artwork out of more of a sense of cynicism and frustration than out of any kind of genius marketing insight. But that one sentence is worth a week of discussion in my entrepreneurship class. Those few words embody the concepts

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Articles

Where Did We Go Right?

An article I wrote for PBS/Mediashift, on the unexpected perils of taking advice from successful entrepreneurs:     MediaShift Idea Lab . Where Did We Go Right? | PBS

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