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Forge the Future: Immersive Roleplaying for Aspiring Entrepreneurs

Paul G. Silva

Built on the award-winning Forged in the Dark framework, this experiential learning tool places participants in the roles of startup founders racing to bring their vision to life before time and resources run out. Forge the Future allows you to experience these challenges firsthand.

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BE 2.0: Focus on Responsibility, Not Tasks – The Mindset Shift That Changes Everything

Paul G. Silva

Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0). A Contrasting Example: When Task-Focus Fails Another startup I worked with initially resisted this framework. Our Management Dashboard leveraged startup development frameworks to identify important milestones, which became quarterly objectives, which then generated monthly tasks.

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My Role as a VC: What I am and what I am not.

This is going to be BIG.

That does not mean telling them how to run the company, but to help them create a management discipline--a framework for thinking about problems and solutions. Third , I try to help my teams be the best company managers they can be--because ultimately, no matter how much help I can be, it''s up to them to do most of the heavy lifting.

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Latest Update on the SBA Community Navigator Funding Opportunity

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The program aims to place significant financial resources into organizations that wish to be hubs or spokes of entrepreneurship support and ecosystem-building efforts in their communities—particularly those organizations with deep roots in targeting underserved communities. What is the SBA Community Navigator Model?

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SBA Announces Community Navigator Model and Funding Opportunity

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We’re thrilled the SBA goes on to recommend that effective network building must also adopt a data-driven approach , something we’ve been championing with communities via our SourceLink Pro entrepreneurship CRM and decision support system and Resource Navigator technologies. What is the SBA Community Navigator Model?

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Mentoring is at the Heart of Entrepreneurship

StartupNation

Teaching and mentoring is at the heart of entrepreneurship. Let’s start by understanding the four levels of teaching, how it applies to business and then a framework for how we can take action. I learned from these teachers, but I was always delaying the actual jump into full-time entrepreneurship.

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Bottom-up SaaS: A framework for mapping pricing to customer value

TechCrunch

In this piece, we will take a closer look at this trend — and specifically how it has fundamentally altered pricing — and at a framework for mapping pricing to customer value. The MAP customer value framework. Aligning value with pricing. To do this well, you need to deeply understand your customers and how they use your product.