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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. This is a true story.

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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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Austin-based Pivot3 Buys NexGen Storage

SiliconHills

Austin-based Pivot3 announced Wednesday it will acquire NexGen Storage, a privately held maker of hybrid storage appliances based in Louisville, Colorado. Pivot3 intends to market and enhance all current and planned NexGen products. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Cultivating A Culture Of Excellence From The Ground Up

YoungUpstarts

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. Polls show that less than one-third of employees in our country are enthusiastic about their work. 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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Entrepreneurial Inspiration

The Entrepreneurial Mind

I am here in Louisville with twenty-eight of our Belmont students at the annual International Career Development Conference of the collegiate division of DECA, Delta Epsilon Chi. NOTE: Your business concept, whether it's a product or service, may not be "located" inside the arena itself."

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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.) Kentucky – May 10 (Louisville). Indiana – May 7, 8 (Indianapolis). Ohio – May 9 (Cincinnati). Tennessee – May 11 (Nashville).