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EO Members Reflect on Coaching GSEA Global Finalists for ‘Start It Up’ Season 3

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Photo caption: EO members who volunteered to coach GSEA student entrepreneurs include: Divek Barathamanickam, Kate Hancock, Iffat Grecht, Marcelo Bernartt, and Kate Morgan (with Brent Wardrop on the far left behind Divek). It was humbling and a privilege to be part of the students’ journey.”

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How I Use Visualization to Drive Creativity

Both Sides of the Table

It’s why I always work hard to find images for my blog posts & why all of my keynote presentations are visual rather than bullet points with words. This applies equally to VCs, startups & big company executives. The one that works best for me is visualization coupled with self talk. Many people are visual thinkers.

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Seth Sternberg – Meebo

Both Sides of the Table

We then spoke about startups. Again, Seth: “One of the things I noticed when I looked around at startups is that often the founding teams hired people just like themselves. Startups shouldn’t be like this. And I’d recommend them to any talented startup founders out there.&#. It makes me laugh.

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Why Peer-to-Peer Mentorship Is Essential for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Of paramount importance to our students’ success has been access to mentors—both in and out of the classroom. For example, an active mentor of WIFIPLUG, another startup at the 2017 Ameren Accelerator, found ways for the founders to demonstrate their products in front of Ameren employees—gaining both pre-orders and product evangelists.

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Fiveable lands $10M Series A to become ‘the hallways of the educational internet’

TechCrunch

And Fiveable , a Milwaukee-based startup, fits the growing demand. Fiveable began years ago as a free, online learning community for high school students with the focus of helping them pass Advanced Placement (AP) exams. Now, it is evolving to become a social learning platform that helps any student navigate high school.

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From Plan to Benevolent World Domination with the KISS Canvas

Paul G. Silva

[This is part of a series on the KISS Canvas ] For over twenty years I’ve had the pleasure of co-founding a handful of ventures and mentoring hundreds of startup and intrepreneurial teams. A pitch deck template is great for telling a convincing story to investors, but not a practical guide for execution.

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Startups For Students Guide

Y Combinator

In the past two years, we’ve met over 6,000 students during our virtual outreach tours. We compiled a list of the questions they most frequently asked about startups, and created this Startups for Students Guide. Below is the introduction, and you can read the full Startups for Students Guide here.

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