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Top 30 Start Ups 2015

http://www.techoverlap.com/startups

I'm most read non - Billionaire in the world of Quora.com

I am now the #4 and #8 most read answers in the Anthony Robbins and Mark Cuban categories for the last 30 days. You can follow me on Quora.com. Also, the only non-billionaire to make the list. 

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Mentor Progress Review

Each Founder will present their company in front of a panel of Mentors and get graded on 3 metrics: product or offering progress, presentation quality and completeness of the financial model. You will have 3 minutes to present the company with a PowerPoint deck, and you will have another 3 minutes to discuss the product development plans, including the Product Roadmap, Estimation and technology decisions. Mentors will ask questions and then rate Founders on a scale of 1-5 in each category with 5 being the best possible score. Any Founder that scores an average of 2.0 or below may be asked to leave the program and re-enroll in a future semester. Any Founder with a score below 3.0 may be given a challenging Special Assignment or be asked to re-enroll. There are the following assignments after the session. Include a link or links to the work required in your Special Assignment in the “Mentor Progress Review” assignment field before the additional work described below. 1. (Updated Pow...

Product Development

Requirements: 1. (Competitive Research) Identify at least 3 offerings that are similar to your planned offering from competitor companies or from related companies. Write the name of the solution, provide the URL to access the offering, and write 1 paragraph that describes the 1 key feature that each offering launched with. Update your Market Research worksheet sheet from "Research and Customer Development" with the companies. 2. (Product Roadmap) Organize a product brainstorming session with your Advisors, coworkers, friends and / or Working Group members to create a prioritized set of features to develop next. Try the following methodology. During the session, write down a series of “Features” that you want your ultimate offering to have on sticky notes. Then, organize the Features on sticky notes into logical “Groups,” which may be in categories like “Registration” or “Search.” Next, on a wall, place the important Features on top of less important Features vertically...

Team and Advisors

Team and Advisors Requirements: NOTE: You will need to create an offering over the next couple of weeks, and it is important that you recruit the right set of people, or Roles, to complete the offering. 1. (Identify Advisors) Identify 2 different types of experienced Advisors that will be able to provide feedback on your business from different points of view. Write the desired industry and background for each target Advisor, and identify at least 3 potential candidates for each. Write each candidate's name, title, company, email address, and Linkedin link or biography. These Advisors may include FI Mentors. 2. (Recruit Advisors) Contact each of the Advisor candidates about helping to work on your Product Definition below, which will be a test of the relationship. If the test goes well, discuss bringing the Advisor on to a formal advisory role compensated with equity, potentially using the FAST Agreement for the structure (http://fndri.com/16hjIur). 3. (Product Definition...

FI visions and ideas 2 Research Customer Developement Revenue models Naming and Positioning Startup legal and ip team product mentor

Assignment Title: Visions and Ideas Assignment: Vision and Ideas 2 Steve Jobs and I had similar tough childhoods. My short work history at 2 – washed dishes, 5- ran a wood splitter for my brothers, first rent collection, first savings account (4) and sister, 6 added yard work; first checking account, 7- scrap metal, garden tilling, sold fishing worms, paid all household bills, all shopping, cut grass at Auto Zone. 8 – 13 got free cable, Atari many other game systems and wasted time with the neighbor girl. 14- started a paintball field and became the youngest  NCP  Referee in the country # 346. 15 – summer trip from California across the country before being crushed by a Ford  LTD . 16 – became a Police cadet under Capt Now – Arthur Littlejohn, city police spokesperson. 17- joined US Army Military Intelligence Signal Corp. while my brothers- Col. Daniel Bulsa Pentagon retired, and Capt Derrick Bulsa-  JAG  attorney, training all State Prosecutors by S...

FI Curriculum

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Greenville Summer 2015 Program Sessions (Private Events) The Founder Institute offers a weekly curriculum of company-building sessions designed to help entrepreneurs start building every aspect of their business, from the core idea to the product and revenue model. Each weekly session takes place during a weekday evening for at least 3 hours, and is led by three startup  CEO Mentors  who share their advice and provide our participating Founders with critical feedback. In addition, our Founders are given challenging assignments to build key aspects of their companies between the sessions that are completed in Working Groups with their peers. See the full curriculum below, or  see a sample Founder Institute session .  Orientation 2015-07-13, 06:00 PM: Welcome and meet your peers.   Are you ready to be an entrepreneur? How well do you know your peers in the program? Is there someone that might be your Cofounder from the program? Who will lead you...