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Forge the Future: Immersive Roleplaying for Aspiring Entrepreneurs

Paul G. Silva

Whether you’re a seasoned founder eager to relive the startup journey in a safe environment, an educator seeking innovative teaching tools, or a professional interested in experiential learning—this business simulation is designed for you. Let’s Connect: Interested in learning more or setting up a session?

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How to Not Suck at a Group Presentation

Both Sides of the Table

If you demo your product (which is always great) then tell us part of the story while you’re demo’ing. Also, asking is not appropriate at a marquee conferences like TechCrunch50, DEMO, Twiistup and the like. Don’t confuse this with a tour-de-force education on the finer details of how your company operations.

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Extra Crunch roundup: 500 Startups’ demo day, smart SaaS pricing and much more

TechCrunch

Demo days at startup accelerators are a pretty big deal around here. Here’s just one example from Y Combinator’s Summer 2013 Demo Day: Positioning itself as the “FedEx of today,” it hopes to provide a logistics framework that goes beyond food and can be used for any type of on-demand order. Omnitron Sensors. Apothecary.

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Tyler Bosmeny built Clever into a $500M company–now he’s helping YC founders do the same as General Partner

Y Combinator

At Demo Day, he shocked the room when he announced that he’d already signed on 1,000 schools. Over the next 10 years, he and his cofounders grew Clever into an educational powerhouse, used every day by over half of K-12 students in the USA– my kids included. An API for schools?

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Learn to code? How about learn to sell!

This is going to be BIG.

The company sells to local governments, real estate management companies, educational institutions--anyone responsible for public or private infrastructure. There are a lot of reasons not to like the space that Publicstuff is in. That alone is enough to make a lot of VCs throw up a little in their mouths. Slow sales cycles.

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How do startup Accelerators work?

Gust

While there are some universal features, such as an application and selection process and educational programming, the specific offerings can differ widely. Accelerators are as diverse and varied as the start-ups they serve. Let's delve deeper into the details. The post How do startup Accelerators work? appeared first on Gust.

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Creating an Awesome Conference: Brooklyn Beta

This is going to be BIG.

And I saw a bunch of demos of beta services spliced in between the talks.” The New York ecosystem needs these events for the most innovative practitioners just as much as it needs open, educational events for newbies. I saw Kevin Cheng ( @k ) talk about product managing the creation of #newtwitter. That’s kind of the point.