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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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
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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.)
