Wednesday, March 31, 2010

6 ReadWriteStart Lists: Our Best Startup Advice - ReadWriteStart

6 ReadWriteStart Lists: Our Best Startup Advice - ReadWriteStart

How to Not Suck at a Group Presentation

How to Not Suck at a Group Presentation: "because the ability to nail these presentations at key conferences can be once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to influence journalists, business partners, potential employees, customers and VCs.

This was evident at the Twiistup pre-event company pitch last week at UCLA. �Francisco Dao came up with the idea of letting 10 companies that weren’t selected for Twiistup to do a presentation the night before to a group of people and let the audience pick one company to win the final slot at Twiistup. �I was the judge. �It was mostly painful. �I’m not saying the companies were bad – many were not. �But their presentations were not well prepared, not well delivered and lacking in a compelling story that captured the imagination of the audience (or me)."

Derek Sivers

Derek Sivers

Monday, March 29, 2010

Grads' Backup Plans: Nuts in Bhutan - BusinessWeek

Grads' Backup Plans: Nuts in Bhutan - BusinessWeek: "I'll be setting up strategies for how we manage the huge task of planting 10 million trees over eight years: everything from making videos with our agricultural team to figuring out and teaching people how to plant a tree to building a huge factory. It's a dream job I didn't know was there. It took two years in business school and this financial crisis for me to be honest with myself and to find out what I wanted to do with my time. The world is in need of—and ready for—a lot more nontraditional careers."

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Sunday, March 14, 2010