Category: Excerpt
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T-Ball Entrepreneurship
How Your Community Discourages Great Startups The Lone-Wolf Startup? Entrepreneurship evokes images of Steve Jobs, Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos – but the reality is that the lone-wolf genius with the change-the-world idea is rare. Today, it’s almost impossible to build a startup alone. It takes a community of shared knowledge and of shared resources. A…
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The Guru Paradox
The Experience Slide The Management Team. It’s the most important slide in the investor pitch deck. This is what all new entrepreneurs learn from the get-go. And it’s this slide that speaks volumes about the perception of “experience” in this modern era of entrepreneurship. As investors and advisors to a statewide economic development program, each month we’d listen to…