Tag Archives: Agile

Acumen Fund Presents at 407 Today

Posted on September 30, 2011 by dougneal

The CFE is hosting today @ 2pm at Stamps Wei Wei Hsing from the Acumen Fund. These guys are amazing! If you don’t know much about what they do you should watch this TED video by one of their founders, … Continue reading →

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Acceleration Phase – Written by Doug Neal

Posted on April 25, 2011 by dougneal

This is the third phase (fourth blog post) of the Acceleration Project. See last week’s post for the Skill Building Phase and the first post in this series for an overview of what I’m rambling about here. I was thinking … Continue reading →

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The Skill Building Phase – Written by Doug Neal

Posted on April 18, 2011 by dougneal

This is the second phase (third blog post) of the Acceleration Project. See last week’s post for the Application Phase and the first post in this series for an overview of what I’m rambling about here. In Colorado Springs, teams … Continue reading →

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The Application Phase – Written by Doug Neal

Posted on April 10, 2011 by dougneal

Last week I posted an overview of the Acceleration Project concept, which I believe, is a much better substitute for business plan competitions. (see last week’s post for an overview of the concept) This week I wanted to spend more … Continue reading →

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Replacing Business Plan Competitions – Written by Doug Neal

Posted on April 4, 2011 by dougneal

Imagine that there were no Olympic training camps for aspiring athletes. In fact, let’s imagine that there were no regional qualifiers; state finals or even high school sports programs. Now let’s assume that every four years we gather together and … Continue reading →

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Entrepreneurial Jedi Master – Written by Doug Neal

Posted on March 29, 2011 by dougneal

The last two days we were fortunate enough to have Steve Blank spend time with us at the University of Michigan’s Center for Entrepreneurship. During those two 12-hour days we packed Steve’s schedule with meetings, presentations, reviews, office hours and … Continue reading →

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