Making It Hard for People to Buy from You Kills Your Business
Guest Speaker: William Bauer "You Don't Succeed by Making it Difficult to Buy From You" I’m every pizza and street food stand’s worst nuisance: an obstinately cashless consumer. Against my parents’ better judgment, I never carry cash. I use my Amex for everything
6 Simple Steps Creating Great Business Ideas
Guest Speaker: Alan Hall "How to Create a Winning Business Idea--in Six Easy Steps" I often meet business founders whose minds are overflowing with brilliant business ideas for new products. They seem to develop terrific new concepts every single day of
Beware! The Dark and Crucial World of Content Marketing
Guest Speaker: Mike Li "The Dark Side of Content Marketing" What is there to know about content marketing? Well, one thing is for sure; content is king. A blood-thirsty king. Now feed him "Create awesome content." "Deliver value." "WOW your users." "Master the
Mark Cuban’s Take on AI in The Next 3 Years
Guest Speaker: Mark Suster "Mark Cuban on Why You Need to Study Artificial Intelligence or You’ll be a Dinosaur in 3 Years" Machine Learning / AI They discussed many topics ranging from protection of the press to what Mark looks for in an entrepreneur
Top 5 Ways To Sell Your Idea To Customers
Guest Speaker: Daniel DiPiazza "5 Proven Strategies to Break Out With Your New Business" Before customers buy your idea over (or in addition to) another company’s, you must show them why your product or service is different and/or better. If you can show why
Challenge your Creativity with Sharpen Design
Designers can work in multitude of fields. They are the ones who form shapes into reality. They also play a critical role envisioning products made with safe materials that can be perpetually cycled, and eliminate the concept of "waste". In order to makes them produce sustainable art they
A 14 Year Old’s Story Building and Marketing a Chatbot
Guest Speaker: Alec Jones "The Ups and Downs of Building and Marketing a Chat Bot When You’re 14" This is a short story about what I learned while coding a popular Facebook Messenger bot and my first week marketing it (a tweet
Why Social Currency Is A Great Key To Your Success
Guest Speaker: Gerard Adams "Understanding Your Social Currency Is the Key to Success" Knowing your value to the world, then increasing it, is the foundation to thriving as an entrepreneur. The way you value people, and the way people value you, isn’t perfectly
Match Made in Heaven: How to Start a Business Partnership
Guest Speaker: The Oracles "6 Things to Consider Before Partnering Up" Savvy entrepreneurs use these strategies to ensure every business partnership is a match made in heaven. Great businesses are founded on great partnerships. But great businesses can also be destroyed by bad
The Ultimate Product Launch Checklist Is Here
Guest Speaker: Larry Kim "Launching a Product Soon? Check out: The Ultimate Product Launch Checklist!" Getting ready to go to market is a crazy, exciting, and stressful time. You’re probably pretty stoked, but almost certainly sleep-deprived and second-guessing yourself. Are you really ready