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A Good Answer in a Business Plan Contest

Up and Running

All three of the others were strong business plans, with good product-market possibilities, strong technologies, and strong management. Tags: business pitch business plan contests pitch presentation Mosaic Genetics NanoMark Therapeutics New Venture Championship NVC University of Louisville University of Oregon.

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PressIt, An Easy Way To Convert Original Content Into Merchandise

YoungUpstarts

Louisville, Kentucky-based online retailer of stock and user-customized on demand products CafePress has launched PressIt , a simple and effective way for bloggers or small businesses to monetize their original images and other content, by making it simple to put them on products like t-shirts, mugs and tote bags.

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Cultivating A Culture Of Excellence From The Ground Up

YoungUpstarts

Unfortunately, too few managers are tending to the personal growth of their staff. What’s missing for these employees, whether they’re sitting at a desk, standing on a production line or pulling weeds, is an understanding of how their ideas and investment of time, energy and skill matter. Broaden horizons.

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Lean Startup Implementation Lessons

Startup Lessons Learned

Check out his talk for the specifics of how Ash tests a metric: On the subject of experimentation, few have learned more than Matt Brezina, whose company Sincerely launched nine products in its first year to form a group of apps that are the world’s largest gifting network. offering ten ways founders can get out of their offices.

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States of Innovation, Going Gonzeaux Tour – 2012

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

I’ll be happy to do a talk or consult on innovation (and/or creativity/creative problem solving/idea generation/new product development/trends/starting-up, etc.) We can talk open innovation, idea management systems, process, people, culture. Kentucky – May 10 (Louisville). Some of the speakers are from the heartland.

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Transcript of The Secrets to Leading Creative People

Duct Tape Marketing

John Jantsch: Leading or managing people in an organization is a tough job. Todd Henry: There really are two primary things that creative people need from their manager in order to thrive. What we have to do is we have to transition from a maker mindset to a manager mindset. Back to Podcast. Transcript.

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12 Questions: Meet Michael Irby (USA)

crowdSPRING Blog

Since then I have been a bartender, restaurant manager and cabinet maker. I also like the logo for Triple E Productions. For example, I recently flew into the Louisville, KY, airport where I had the opportunity to experience the Dyson Airblade hand dryer. Hell, I didn’t even have a computer. I washed my hands twice!

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