Pitching for Startups

Startup Training Materials: Related Posts for the Startup Crash Course

The P@SHA Social Innovation Investment Fund: A guide to starting up – online video series

Customer Personas: Painting your Mona Lisa

Customer Personas: A working example of building a customer profile

Customer Profiles at work: Advertising strategy for an online education business

Business Plan Cheat Sheet: Sample Business Plans for sale

Finding the voice of the customer

Startup Guide: Describing your product

Startup Guide: Linking pain, product, segment and reach

Startup Guide: How to win a business-plan competition

Business Plan Competitions: Be Boring

Innovation Training: Training Student Entrepreneurs

Startup Training Materials: The Entrepreneurial Crash Course

If you want to skip the class, skip the book, skip the history lessons, skip the school and the hard work here is the short and sweet version for you. Direct from Reboot – the Book

Startup Training School – Core Milestones

Startup Training School – Balance Faith

Startup Training School – Balancing Faith

Startup Training School – The blue screen of death

Startup Training School – Startup roulette: A framework for failure

Startup Training School – The search for gods and generals – Leadership and Greco-Roman tragedies: Lessons learned

Startup Training School – The search for gods and generals – Leadership and Greco-Roman tragedies

Startup Training School – The paradox of large customers

Startup Training School – Why diversification is a four-letter word: Lessons learned

Startup Training School – Why diversification is a four-letter word

Startup Training School – Opportunity cost of perfection

Startup Training School – Evolutionary product development and “solving the wrong problem”, problem: Lessons learned

Startup Training School – Evolutionary product development and “solving the wrong problem”, problem

Startup Training School – Technology as a competitive advantage: Lessons learned

Startup Training School – Technology as a competitive advantage

Startup Crash Course: Even more related material: Light reading from early startup years

On Entrepreneurship

Kill your Ego

The myth of a unique idea – one

On Hamlet, Horatios and Shakespearean mythology…

A penny for your thoughts, pretty woman, or the myth about raising capital

Strategy and tactics redux or Winning for itsy, bitsy, teeny, weenie, little Pakistani mom and pop tech shops.

On Starting up

Have fire, will travel or Why you should listen to your heart

Memories, Cookaracha Guides or Venture number two…

Startup Insiders – through the pictures

On Pitching

APICTA / PASHA Awards do’s and don’ts – old post rehash

Why customers say no or How to turn your customers into repeat buyers?

The essence of a business plan competition

The Presentation cheat sheet – one

The Presentation cheat sheet – two – impact

The presentation cheat sheet – Three – The Problem Statement

On Raising Capital

Funding for dummies…one

Funding for dummies…two

Funding for dummies…three

Funding for dummies…four

On Surviving

There goes your coolant; here comes your core…

Things they never taught me at Columbia Business School…

Gary Travnicek

Things to do in a down market when you are not dead…

Stepping out of your comfort zone…

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