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I would write a bit about the blog post, but it is easier for you to go there and check it out for yourself:

5 Lessons from 150 Startup Pitches

The Harvard Business School has published a tool to the Web called the "HBS Elevator Pitch Builder." Here is the URL: http://www.alumni.hbs.edu/careers/pitch/

I think there are some valuable lessons built in to this tool. A lot of them are unintentional. My brief take is, figure out what they did wrong and you could be great at elevator pitches and designing Web sites. The HBS has hit several of my personal hot buttons.

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Starting next week, UT Knoxville will be offering free seminars on starting your own business.

Interested? Check it out: UT Press Release

Over the years, I have seen many an entrepreneur become fixated on the "Next Big Thing". Instead of mastering the enormous opportunity, the project eats up all their resources or it gets kicked into the wastebin of abandoned projects, never to be seen again. Actually, that describes several of my projects that helped build experience for the occasional successes.

But as we know, experience is a very, very harsh and expensive thing. We didn't pursue the Next Big Thing because it was a terrible i… Continue

If you like following inventive entrepreneurs, Mark Cuban of Dallas should be on your short list. He has been successful at a number of technical and non-technical enterprises, he works hard, he works smart, and he posts his experiences constantly on his blog. So he is the rare accessible successful entrepreneur.

Lately, there have been intership presentations at EOK and elsewhere. Students and laid off workers are looking for ways to gain experience for obtaining their next job. Mark Cuban's l… Continue