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  • From Harvard to the Facebook

    Mark Zuckerberg, founder of TheFacebook, is interviewed by VC, Jim Breyer, Managing Partner of Accel. Mark describes what it was like to leave Harvard to venture into a business to build a social utility tool for college students around the world.

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    00:56:24 to listen

  • From Stanford to Startup

    Instagram Co-Founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger challenge many of the myths surrounding startups and the lives of entrepreneurs.

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    00:56:30 to listen

  • Great Entrepreneurs Go Out and Do

    Entrepreneur and early-stage investor Brad Feld offers advice and support to aspiring entrepreneurs. Feld, a managing partner at Foundry Group and a co-founder of TechStars, imparts personal experiences on managing your life as an entrepreneur.

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    01:01:19 to listen

  • Why a Startup is Not a Big Company

    Once you’ve heard the insight–that startups are different from big companies–it seems so obvious. Yet too often entrepreneurs, and those that teach them, approach the building of new companies with the same goals, staff structures and assumptions that motivate the management of large companies. Startup founders build teams to focus on engineering, and on the process of creating a product and bringing it to market.

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  • Creating Your IP Strategy: Employee Policies

    What’s the most valuable aspect of your business? Is it the bricks and mortar? The equipment? Or is it something intangible? While you can’t touch it, feel it or see it, intellectual property when defined as “knowledge” or “know how” is often times the real equity of a business, and if it’s lost, it can bring that business to its knees.

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  • Do You Want To Be Rich, Or Do You Want To Be King?

    You’re the founder of your business. Then, the big question: Do you want to be rich or do you want to be king? What? You want to be both? Well, it may surprise you to learn that very few founders have been able to do that, including the likes of Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Richard Branson.

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  • Handling the Stresses When Two Work, But Only One Earns

    When a startup first begins, cash flow is non-existent. And it can often fall on the entrepreneur’s spouse to help provide for the family while the startup gets on its feet. This can cause a number of challenges, as you can imagine. Recently, I revisited Meg Cadoux Hirshberg’s Founders School series, looking to the module “When the Breadwinner Gets Crusty”. Meg is an author featured regularly on Inc.com, whose writing focuses on the trials and tribulations a family encounters when one of the members jumps into founding a business.

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  • Nurture vs Nature What Does it Take to be an Entrepreneur

    They are questions that are repeatedly asked in entrepreneurial circles: Can we teach entrepreneurship? Does it take certain tenacity and nature that isn’t adverse to risk?

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  • Startups: How to Build Something People Will Buy

    “No business plan survives first contact with customers,” Steve Blank says. What? Isn’t the point of planning that you maximize the likelihood of success in the marketplace? Well yes, but perhaps not the kind of planning you might be thinking about. A business plan conceived on paper, powered by a great idea or invention, enhanced by research on the size of the market and a customer profile, has great potential. But it also has a crucial flaw.

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