Startup e-schools
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Category: Basic skills
Guy Kawasaki: The Top 10 Mistakes of Entrepreneurs
This is an older post but still valid today, a good lesson on what NOT to do. 1) Multiply big numbers by 1 percent. Entrepreneurs always ask, say, how hard can it be to get 1 percent of the cans of dog food sold per day? I hear...
Read MoreHow to Evaluate Startup Ideas
These are great videos to get you started on the “ideation” process and how to best evaluate if you are on the right...
Read MoreHow to be a great startup founder
These are quick videos on the traits of great startup...
Read MoreEntrepreneurship Series – Business Plan Writing 101
This is a great lecture worth watching from Wharton. It’s 48 minutes long but still pretty condensed and up to the minute. Other important questions are when to write a full blown business plan and why write a business...
Read MoreAll about “Product Market Fit”
You may or may not have heard of the important term “product market fit”. It is quite literal, and it’s used widely in the startup world as a key part of the development cycle of a new business idea. Once you...
Read MoreReading list for entrepreneurs
Hhhh Don’t forget to check out our page on books and further reading, it’s a long list, but you should find something of interest for you should you need more useful advice and information about being an...
Read MoreAwesome training session for startups…on YouTube
I really, really like this set of sessions…they are like gold and that’s from a guy who has been doing this for 30 years. Its hard to get stuff so well done and condensed, and that’s what I like, its covers all the ground and...
Read MoreMake sure your business plan gets read – build a “killer” exec summary
Like most people I hate writing business plans, I want to get on with the business at hand rather than keep writing and re-writing lots of words about what I plan to do! This must also be true for many investors too as they...
Read MoreHow to write a winning elevator pitch
Writing a good and punchy “elevator pitch” is way harder than most people think. Plus I find that I really need to teach this skill a lot with my Stanford and UC Berkeley MBA’s to help them both with distilling their ideas,...
Read MorePublic speaking…the key things to know
If you are making any form of presentation you will benefit from these quick tips. Get the content and flow right: First, make the presentation flow correctly – as most presentations are trying to convince someone of...
Read MoreTech startup guides…in summary
Writing about “how-to” startup could take 1000s page or just a few. In the last 20+ years of doing this I have learned a lot, mostly through my own dumb mistakes and I would say that again if you had to choose the...
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