I am a screener (read: judge of sorts) for this, if I know you, I won’t be able to look at your application.
Alright, November 1, 2008 is the last day you can submit an application to the Knight News Challenge.
$5,000,000 is being given away to fund innovative ideas that address the following points:
Use or create [...]
I was talking to a reporter from The Arizona Republic about the upcoming Phoenix Startup Weekend. The questions was on the line of
Some business owners here feel that’s the reason why Arizona has had trouble building a thriving technology community with readily available capital and other resources. What do you think?
Which is a great question [...]
Walking around TechCrunch50 today I saw quite a few pitches. I think I can simplify what makes the pitches bad down to this (incorrect) theory:
Investors are drunk party girls at closing time at the bar.
Bad pitches usually come from thinking this.
So:
If you want to get busy with an investor between the term sheets:
Don’t pretend you [...]
Yes you, and me, and that other guy. And that is ok. But you know one thing that is dead? This mantra:
“I’m an entrepreneur, and I just have to push through all the naysayers out there, because, hey, I’m are an entrepreneur and that is what we do.”
If people are constantly telling [...]
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