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Making the Most of a Startup Accelerator
Want to Join a Startup Accelerator? Read This First Seasoned pros share wisdom, experiences, and advice with fellow founders considering applying for a startup incubator or accelerator program.
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July 25, 2016

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Forget Fear of Failure: 3 Ways to Take the "F" Word Out of Your Vocabulary Drop your fear of failure. In fact, Jay Markiewicz recommends removing the words “failure” or “fail” entirely from conversations about entrepreneurship.
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March 1, 2016

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Outsider app
How The Weather Company Used Data to Build the OutSider App The Weather Company’s app for runners, OutSider, is the result of a hackathon that brought together meteorologists and programmers.
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November 5, 2015

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Five Ways to Tell Stories That Stick
5 Ways To Tell Stories That Stick Whether pitching to the sharks on “Shark Tank,” at a business competition, or to a venture fund, the real power in a successful venture pitch comes from telling a compelling narrative story.
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September 4, 2015

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Peers Inc
Can the Collaborative Economy Fix Climate Change? How collaborative economy ventures, including car-sharing platforms such as BlaBlaCar, Lyft, and Uber, are helping combat climate change.
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August 31, 2015

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Addicted to Entrepreneurship
Exploring the Psychological Side of Repeat Entrepreneurship Is entrepreneurship addictive? Research explores, and attempts to answer, that very question.
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March 26, 2015

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Objective Entrepreneur
How to Become an Objective Entrepreneur Entrepreneurs can be so tied up in their ventures and blinded by unyielding passion that often they don’t see things clearly and therefore can’t respond objectively.
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March 16, 2015

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Why the Big Pharma Business Model Must Change Big Pharma is in the middle of a perfect storm of disaster. Changing it’s business model is the only way the industry will weather the storm.
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February 3, 2015

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Intentional Iteration
5 Ways Auditors Can Overcome Confirmation Bias Confirmation bias, one of five common judgment biases, has the potential to lead auditors up an incorrect path.
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February 1, 2015

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Venture Capital Gender Gap
Changing the Status Quo in Venture Capital Only about 1% of all businesses in the United States ever receive venture financing, and for women, the slice of the VC pie is even smaller.
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January 26, 2015

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