Today I will be judging business plans. The event is the semi-finals for the NFTE, the Network For Teaching Entrepreneurship. USF is the main sponsor. The competition is for high school students. Our job is to score the plans and give them encouragement a la Randy Jackson. I … [Read more...]
Startup vs Corporate
The cultures of a start-up and a big corporation clash like natural gas to a flame. They are incompatible because of each ones goals are vastly different. A start-up has the sole purpose of doing one and only one thing. The focus is so laser focus that any bureaucracy gets … [Read more...]
The Startup Trinity
Every startup has to deal with the trinity. None can escape it. Not knowing how to properly handle the trinity will lead to a dead idea. Most startups might get one or two right. These ideas end up dying on the vine. The successful funded ideas hit all three out of the … [Read more...]