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After Completing This TechStars Exercise, Everyone On Your Team Will Pitch Like A Founder

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In my UCSB classes , my students practice their Personal Pitch in front of their peers, who give them constructive feedback. I decided to tweak this exercise for the Techstars entrepreneurs, using the format described below. However, Techstars requires its entrepreneurs to narrow down their pitch to twenty seconds.

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Interview: Jason Nazar of Docstoc

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"We provide the best quality and widest selection of documents to help you start, grow and manage your small business and professional life. " 6) You are the only person I have ever met who was Class President of both their undergraduate (UC Santa Barbara) and their graduate (Pepperdine) schools. ."

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Steve Blank Discusses The Origin And Future Of The Lean Startup Movement

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Steve is also a Stanford Professor and noted marketing entrepreneur. Eric (Ries) was a student in one of the very earliest customer development classes at Berkley. Four Steps was essentially my class notes. Large companies write business plans, why of course, that’s the organizing document for a startup.

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6 Key Leaders Every Technical Startup Needs To Thrive

Startup Professionals Musings

Yet every entrepreneur I meet wants to talk about the idea, and rarely mentions the team. Thus I was happily surprised when I found the classic book, “ The Tech Entrepreneur’s Survival Guide ,” by Bernd Schoner, PhD, and cofounder of ThingMagic, which leans heavily on the people side of the equation. The sales professional.

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Interview with Eric M. Jackson, CapLinked

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Jackson, CEO and co-founder of CapLinked (www.caplinked.com), which is developing tools to help entrepreneurs and investors connect. Eric is an experienced entrepreneur, and was a very, very early employee at PayPal, where he was recruited by Peter Thiel. Jackson: It's actually two audiences, both the entrepreneur and investor.

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Ten Ways for an Entrepreneur to Expand His Reach

Startup Professionals Musings

As an entrepreneur, you always need to be on the lookout for ways to expand your current business, and always on the lookout for your next big thing. These could be support related, or education related, or a package of product and services for a new class of customers. Tags: entrepreneur startup new opportunities business.

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DocStoc Launches Expert Video

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In what it calls a "video MBA", Santa Monica-based DocStoc has launched a major new feature of the site, aimed at helping small businesses and professionals learn about everything from building a brand, pitching their business plan, running an Adwords campaign, and more. Pricing on the new courses was not announced by the company.

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