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From Slopping Hogs to Serial Entrepreneurship [Video Interview]
“You’ve been the founder of how many companies?” I asked. “You know, I was thinking about that before this—technically it was six.” That’s how I knew we were in for a good discussion. I’ve known...
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How to Hack Your Workday: The Real Benefits of Outsourcing
We’ve all heard horror stories of outsourcing mishaps and virtual assistants gone wild. But, whether you’re scaling your business or bootstrapping a startup, the benefits of outsourcing jobs and small...
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College Hacks: How to Get an Entrepreneurial Experience At Your University
This post was written by Mike Beckwith, a student at Indiana University and regular Verge attendee. He is a Project Coordinator of the Young Entrepreneurs Association at Indiana University...
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5 Ways to Leverage University Resources for Your Startup
Can you imagine Silicon Valley without Stanford? Boston without MIT? Great technology ecosystems are built around great universities. The reason is simple; universities are a hotbed of talent, ideas...
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Why the only thing some “Entrepreneurs” will invent is excuses
Too often, you meet or read about people who claim to be ‘entrepreneurs’; but, who, in reality, realistically have very little possibility of actually becoming one. Why? Excuses. Chances are, you have...
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iPads, Autism and Successful Businesses
Recently, a friend of mine – Joel Manzer – got an iPad. This alone might seem ordinary, however, the means by which he came to do it are pretty cool and a reminder to us entrepreneurs that it isn’t...
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Designing Your First Startup Office
My mother, whom I love dearly, has always held slightly alternative worldly perspectives. Back in college, when she found out I had cold, she would call me to suggest that, in addition to taking the...
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How Dave Knox and the Brandery Launched 25+ Companies in 3 Years
San Francisco, Boulder, New York City. These are the kinds of cities you expect to hear in a lineup of top cities with startup activity. But there’s something in the water in an old industrial Midwest...
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VIDEO Interview with Jonathon Perrelli, Founding Partner at Fortify VC
Jonathon Perrelli founded numerous companies and has been involved with tech and telecomm startups since 1996. But it wasn’t until a few years ago that Perrelli zeroed in on what brings him alive and...
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Startup Fever Hits Terre Haute
An awesome event took place in Terre Haute, Indiana last weekend and I was fortunate enough to be involved and live to tell about it. During the weekend of Feb. 8th, 2013 over 85 energetic startup...
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Awesome startup communities create ‘Startup Triangle’ in SW Indiana.
The startup scene has really taken off in southwest Indiana over the last several months. Terre Haute, Evansville and Bloomington seem to form a ‘startup triangle’ for the region. For starters, there...
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8 Things You Should Know BEFORE You Start Raising Capital
The following answers are provided by members of the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs. In partnership with Citi,...
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10 Startup Trends We Can Really Live Without (Seriously)
The following answers are provided by members of the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs. In partnership with Citi,...
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How Conducting Market Research Helped Two Technology Startups Achieve Market...
[watch the June pitches and fireside chat] Technology Entrepreneurs Prove That Customer Insights Drive Results Two co-founders pitched their growing startups on the Verge stage, and neither of them...
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7 Startup Community Takeaways and Photos from The Innovation Showcase
The Innovation Showcase is one of the rare opportunities we have as entrepreneurs to lift our focus from the everyday, take pause, and remind ourselves why we love what we do. On July 11th, over 600...
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Don’t Feed The Patent Trolls: An Entrepreneur’s Guide to IP Law
If you haven’t already, you’re bound to experience this eventually. You’ve built a business, started generating revenue, and along comes a lawsuit claiming that you stole a word, design, product, or...
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Entrepreneur Education
Entrepreneurial Education It’s exciting to see new entrepreneurship programs popping up at more and more Universities these days. Undergrads are increasingly well equipped to start up or contribute to...
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A Whole Lot More than Hoosier Hospitality
Verge Pitch Night events have taken me across Indiana over the past few months: Bloomington Indianapolis Terre Haute West Lafayette My recent experiences have yielded an eye-opening cross-section of...
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Why Every Founder Should Give a TED Talk (and How to Optimize the Opportunity)
30 minutes. That’s 7 hours and 30 minutes short of the recommended 8 hours, and it’s exactly how much sleep I got the night before my TEDtalk. But, believe me, it was worth it. To get only a half hour...
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How to Build a Stronger Team
How many times over the last 12 months have you heard how important a strong team is? Startups hear it all the time. Some investors even call the team the most important piece to their investment. Yes,...
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