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		<title>Raising money in a down economy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 18:49:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Schoeniger</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend Doug Hardman gave a great presentation about his startup experience at The Cleveland Entrepreneur&#8217;s Club. It went something like this:
We have the greatest idea since sliced bread. (customers will beat a path to my door) 
Wait&#8230;why isn&#8217;t this working????
We&#8217;ll just borrow more money (friends, fools, family, line of credit, drain my 401K)
Wait&#8230;why isn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Entrepreneurial insight</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:57:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After interviewing more than 150 entrepreneurs from across the US, I have more than a few stories to tell: (Video excerpt are available on our vlog) 
We met Jim Stovall who started Narrative Television Network after becoming totally blind at the age of 29. Deby Cowdin and her husband transformed their hobby into a thriving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Understanding entrepreneurs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 03:08:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Schoeniger</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you consider yourself an entrepreneur?
We&#8217;re working with Nicole Kohari, a PhD candidate at Akron University to better understand entrepreneurs and what makes us tick. If you&#8217;re an entrepreneur, please take a few minutes to complete the survey. Also, feel free to forward this to other entrepreneurs.
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		<title>Startup Weekend is Coming to Cleveland</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:46:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Sutyak</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[An event founded around the concept of &#8220;focusing on learning by creating&#8221; is now making its way to Cleveland.  An email to local entrepreneur Doug Craver from its organizer Andrew Kavanaugh:
Hi Everybody,
If you are receiving this email then I believe you are an invaluable member of the Cleveland Entrepreneurial Community and Id like to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Child Left Behind</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 01:37:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Schoeniger</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A brief powerpoint presentation I created for a recent education conference in Columbus. Please forward to friends and send comments.
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		<title>The entrepreneurial learning initiative:</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 04:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Schoeniger</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year I posted about a pilot entrepreneurship program that a friend (and fellow entrepreneur) and I taught at a local high school.  Somewhat astonished by the fact that 24 high school kids agreed to come to school 45 minutes early for the entire year, I asked the students a simple question: Why?
The answer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>17 Startup mistakes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 12:39:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Schoeniger</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[John Osher is the consummate inventor and entrepreneur. He has developed hundreds of consumer products, including an electric toothbrush that became America&#8217;s best-selling toothbrush in just 15 months. He also started several successful companies, including Cap Toys. He built sales to $125 million per year and then sold the company to Hasbro Inc. in 1997. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The courage to think big</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2008 19:44:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Schoeniger</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent interview with Rahul Chowdhury, founder of Denuo Source, Rahul described how business school gave him the courage to think big. 
 &#8220;At the end of the day no matter what you do, you start a small little shop on the corner of Michigan Ave. that&#8217;s selling newspapers, it still takes a lot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iterative experiments</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 16:16:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Schoeniger</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Venture capitalist Jonathan Murray of Early Stage Partners described the startup process as a series of iterative experiments rather than a linear projection. Rather than writing a business plan with cash flow projections that have little or no basis in reality, Jonathan suggests a more realistic approach- a balance between objectivity and entrepreneurial zeal: 
Experiment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cisco Entrepreneur Institute</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/garyschoeniger/~3/N3Z08MGeHIY/</link>
		<comments>http://garyschoeniger.com/index.php/2008/06/05/cisco-entrepreneur-institute-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:16:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Schoeniger</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve just finished a series of video interviews with successful entrepreneurs as part of an online education program we&#8217;re creating for the Cisco Entrepreneur Institute- an amazing journey that provided some powerful insights into the mindset of successful entrepreneurs; how they think, how they&#8217;re able to recognize opportunities and the underlying characteristics that enabled them [...]]]></description>
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