Category Archives: entrepreneurship

CUNVC Workshop with Tom Keller – Connecting with Your Customers

The CU New Venture Challenge held its second workshop on Wednesday evening with Tom Keller presenting an introduction to getting to know your customers. Connecting With Your Customer by Tom Keller 2010 01 27 View more presentations from University of Colorado. Tom outlined that there are 4 ingredients that make money fly to you. Flying Money Ingredient [...]
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Slides from CUNVC Workshops with Page Moreau – New Products

The New Venture Challenge was pleased to present Dr. Page Moreau, Marketing Professor at Leeds School of Business, to deliver a workshop on Wednesday, January 20th, titled “Your Business Concept: Product and Service Offering.”  Quick quiz:  What percentage of new products fail in the marketplace?  (Answer: 40%) With those odds, entrepreneurs need to step into their [...]
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Jason Mendelson CUNVC Crash Course – “How to Build a Company” (includes slides)

The following is a guest post by Mark Wiranowski, CU law student and member of the CUNVC executive committee: Jason Mendelson, Co-Founder and Managing Director of Foundry Group, a Boulder venture capital firm, kicked off the New Venture Challenge Crash Course series to a packed house last night.  His wealth of experience – software engineer, then [...]
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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.)
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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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How a Financial Analyst Sees Technology Trends

Morgan Stanley analyst Mary Meeker gives an excellent macro Internet presentation at Web 2.0 Summit each year.  Content is analyst oriented, but you’re eyes should get big around slide 29 entitled “8 Key Mobile Internet Themes.”  Worthy of spending time looking at the way the world is headed. Mary Meeker’s Internet Presentation 2009
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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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