Entrepreneurship

How to pitch to venture capitalists

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VC David Rose’s 14-minute TED pitch on pitching to venture capitalists: Summary: Key traits about yourself to communicate: Integrity, Passion, Experience, Knowledge, Skill, Leadership, Commitment, Vision, Realism, Coachability. Content structure: Grabbing their emotional attention, solid data and logical progression, strong ending with believable upside. Plus presentation tips. See also my Kaizen interview with venture capitalist

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Subprime mortgage crisis — history flowchart

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Here is a simplified flowchart, developed for my business ethics courses, reflecting my understanding of subprime mortgages’ contribution to the crisis. Let me emphasize that this is only about the subprime contribution of the overall crisis. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac enabled much spillover into non-subprime mortgage sectors, government-set capital requirements and other regulations enabled

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Seminar on entrepreneurial ethics

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During my visit to Francisco Marroquín University, I led a one-hour seminar on entrepreneurial ethics. Subtopics: * Three moral types: Carly, Tonya, and Jane. * Six questions in ethics. * Egoism, Altruism, and Predation. * Entrepreneurial ethics: entrepreneurial success and virtue. * Why hasn’t the case for liberty convinced everyone? * Entrepreneurial ethics in contrast

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Marcoux on entrepreneurship: Schumpeter, Knight, and Kirzner

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In this 17-minute video, Dr. Alexei Marcoux explains three competing theories of entrepreneurship–Schumpeter’s, Knight’s, and Kirzner’s. For more information: Joseph Schumpeter, Frank Knight, and Israel Kirzner. Dr. Marcoux’s lecture is part of the Entrepreneurship and Values series. Other lecturers in the six-part series include Terry Noel, Stephen Hicks, William Kline, and Robert Salvino. The video

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Interview with Phyllis Johnson on entrepreneurship, coffee, and empowering women in Africa

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In my interview with Phyllis Johnson after her talk at Rockford College, Ms. Johnson and I discussed her entrepreneurial career as well as the challenges faced by coffee farmers in Africa–most of them low-paid women with little-to-no business education and who, in many cases, are not allowed to own farmland due to cultural, religious, or

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Full interview with Francesco Clark posted

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My full Kaizen interview with entrepreneur Francesco Clark has been re-published, along with 15 other Kaizen interviews, in More Entrepreneurial Living: 16 More Stories of Innovation, Risk, and Achievement. The theme of the interview is Entrepreneurship and Overcoming Adversity, about which Clark is perfectly positioned to speak. At age 24 he became paralyzed from the

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