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Jason Mendelson’s CUNVC Crash Course Video – How to Build a Company
Slides and write-up to follow, but here is the video for anyone who missed it. Thanks to Colorado Tech TV for the awesome video and the speedy upload! (Note: be patient, it may take a minute to load all six parts.)
Video of Paul Berberian’s Talk on How to Pick a Business
For anyone who missed the first CU New Venture Challenge event, you’re in luck! Below is video from the Kickoff hosted by Paul Berberian. See our write-up of the event here. Enjoy!
How to Pick a Business from Paul Berberian on Vimeo.
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CU NVC Kick Off a Success
The kick off event of the CU New Venture Challenge, a crash course featuring local Boulder entrepreneur Paul Berberian speaking about “How to Pick a Business Worth Starting” was a huge success. Held November 11 in the Courtroom of the Law School at CU, we hosted about 200 attendees including students, faculty, staff, and members [...]
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Thomas Friedman talks about education…
Here is an excerpt from a Thomas Friedman column that is particularly relevant to why the experiential aspects of the NVC and hands-on entrepreneurship learning the right vehicle to help equip students for jobs in an information age. Full column is available here. Most relevant section is excerpted and pasted directly below…
A Washington lawyer friend [...]
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Lessons From Incubator 2.0 from Dave McClure
Dave McClure shared this presentation with some lessons about start-ups incubators. The presentation is slides only, but worth a look. Some good information about the development cycle and the metrics that are important to young companies (keep clicking past the intro slides). The contextual blog post can be found here.
Incubator 2.0: A Silicon Valley Success [...]
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Kleiner’s Beth Seidenberg: Five Metrics for Venture Success
Beth Seidenberg of Kleiner Perkins gives a five minute intro about what she and the VCs at Kleiner see as important factors when evaluating the business. The entire podcast is also available.
Description: “How do investors gauge whether a company is one from a pool of thousands worth their resources? KPCB partner Beth Seidenberg shares her [...]
Top 10 Must Haves for Start-Ups
This is a great video presentation (a little dated, 2001) by Frank Levinson of Finisar that has some great advice for start-ups. In particular, get customers; then listen to them. There is other good advice too, like; Get a couch, you’ll be sleeping on it from time to time. Seriously though, storytelling from [...]
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CUNVC Workshop with Tom Keller – Connecting with Your Customers