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,
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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.)
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.
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
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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
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