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How Beatshare Is Tackling Music And Messaging

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Eli Aizenstat: I entered into the Design Accelerator, which is an accelerator run in conjunction with the Art Center College of Design and Caltech, in the summer of 2014. We worked on Beatshare at Chapman, where there was a business plan competition, which we won. That's what really started to get us interest from the angel community.

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

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He was a life-long entrepreneur and the first business he created out of college (actually, he founded it while he was at Caltech) was a company that manufactured high quality audio speakers. We talked about patents. He sold so many that after Caltech he decided to open a retail store. We had a nice discussion on this topic.