by admin | Oct 1, 2014 | Basic skills, Entrepreneurship
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 …
by admin | Nov 20, 2009 | Basic skills, Business plans, Entrepreneurship, Fundraising
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 …
by admin | Mar 31, 2009 | Basic skills, Entrepreneurship, Fundraising, Stanford Mentees, Startup
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 …
by admin | Dec 10, 2008 | Basic skills, Entrepreneurship, Fundraising, Stanford Mentees
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 something, I tend...
by admin | Nov 17, 2008 | Basic skills, Entrepreneurship, Startup
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 …
by admin | Nov 11, 2008 | Basic skills, Fundraising
Again and again I find myself telling my MBA students about how to present. They tend to get everything wrong, every time, no matter how many times I tell them or ask them to learn. Why? Well it’s probably because …
