Last night at the CU Law School, mentors and teams from the New Venture Challenge met to discuss business ideas in a “speed dating” event following an Entrepreneurs Unplugged presentation by CEO of SparkFun Nathan Seidle. Discussion was lively, inspired by the story of a company that now employs almost 100 people but started when
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This year at Pitch Night, over 50 incredible business ideas were presented to a packed crowd, the largest number of competitors ever for the CU New Venture Challenge! View a list of the presenters and their contact information, check out more photos here, and read on for some highlights of the event below. The panel
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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 entrepreneurs is
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In the first Entrepreneurs Unplugged of the season at University of Colorado, former CTO and co-founder of Service Metrics Neil Robertson shared his insights and stories from the entrepreneurial frontlines. With a number of companies under his belt (and his new project, Trada) Niel Robertson is an incredibly successful entrepreneur. However, in his opinion,
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Silicon Flatirons is hosting entrepreneur Paul Berberian in its Entrepreneurs Unplugged series, tomorrow, September 17th at 6pm in the engineering center, room ECCR 265. Mr. Berberian is an experienced chief executive officer and one of Colorado’s leading entrepreneurs. Over the last 15 years, Mr. Berberian has founded or co-founded several high-tech companies. Most recently he
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