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4 Things I’ve Learned As An Entrepreneur Right Out Of College

Up and Running

He moved out to Colorado to attend CU Boulder, starting a degree in Architecture only to find out he was more passionate about Business. Go lean with your planning. A startup is about execution and speed, so you need to start lean. You learn this a lot faster by working at other startups first. Don’t start your company alone.

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17 Venture Capital Blogs You Should Be Reading

Up and Running

Eric Ries of The Lean Startup has called Andrew Chen’s blog “one of the best entrepreneurship blogs of all time.” From leadership advice to thoughts on how to build a thriving company, Mark’s voice is direct and succinct. Brad Feld is a managing director at Foundry Group in Boulder, Colorado. andrewchen.co. Feld Thoughts.

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The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Education and Corporate Innovation

Steve Blank

Lean LaunchPad class developed for Stanford. And the Lean LaunchPad class I developed at Stanford was the first such class. I believe the analogy is identical for entrepreneurship.The capstone entrepreneurship classes like NSF I-Corps or a Lean LaunchPad class, are for those who have already decided they want to be entrepreneurs.

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The 5 Key Skills That Successful Managers Possess

Duct Tape Marketing

03:27] How’d you come up with five steps that you lean on as being the critical elements? [05:11] 06:28] What do you feel like you’re adding new to the genre of leadership books? [08:19] How'd you come up with five steps that, that you lean on as being really the critical elements? I grew up in rural Colorado.

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The National Day of Civic Hacking

Feld Thoughts

A company I’ve been involved for a long time with – Rally Software – is taking a leadership role in this. In Denver, the site is focused on open data from the State of Colorado and called Hack4Colorado. Rally is also donating three seats to their Enterprise Lean Startup training course to this effort.

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Help Me Support Senator Mark Udall For Congress

Feld Thoughts

I believe that Senator Mark Udall is doing a superb job for Colorado. Most recently, Mark took a leadership role in defeating SOPA/PIPA and was one of the first Senators to come out publicly against PIPA.

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Rethinking The Words You Should Lose For Those to Use

Duct Tape Marketing

John Jantsch (05:08): So I saw you recently in Boulder, Colorado promoting the book and uh, meeting with friends and you shared, so I have a little advantage of this. She opens the window and she leans out. And from a leadership standpoint, you know, the should thing just makes people not want to try. John Jantsch (10:26): Yeah.