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Would It Be Crazy IF?

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by Eric | Apr 15, 2011, 8:52am EST

This week I did a presentation to two sections of a prominant business school with an hour of Q&A in between. I fashioned it off a line I read in an article I discovered on XYDO. Would it be crazy if (you fill in the blank). Imagine just doing lunch with a few smart buddies [...]

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The Emergence of XYDO

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by Eric | Feb 14, 2011, 9:37am EST

Team XYDO has been hard at work on XYDO, our drive toward reinventing News on a truly social level. After crawling out of our bat cave of over 9 months of development, we are pleased to introduce you to XYDO. We all know there is a place on the web to buy books, shoes, do [...]

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Riding the Startup Roller Coaster to Success

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by Eric | Jan 25, 2011, 8:55am EST

This morning I wanted to take a quick stab at the emotional Roller Coaster that creating, launching, and managing a startup can be. Put simply, jumping into the startup void is not for the feint of heart. By no means am I advising against seeing your dreams to fruition, I am however, attempting to ground [...]

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Startup Slide Deck: What to Include for your VC Presentation

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by Eric | Jan 12, 2011, 9:16am EST

The other day I had the opportunity to watch a full hour long presentation by Mark Suster on how to communicate and present to a VC. His presentation was excellent, packed with lots of good info regarding everything from, “how to dress” all the way down to “how to answer questions.” BTW — How did [...]

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Why Some Succeed and Most Do Not

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by Eric | Jan 6, 2011, 5:09pm EST

Not so long ago, back in New York, when I worked for Morgan Stanley, I was asked to speak to the incoming class of brokers. As preparation for the presentation, I brought in a few of the marketing professionals from the firm and spent a few hours going through their perceptions of what was, and [...]

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On The Importance Of Co-Founders

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by Cameron | Dec 13, 2010, 3:40am EST

Eric and I have been doing a lot of presentations lately and meeting a lot of great entrepreneurs, soon-to-be entrepreneurs, developers, investors, and other people looking to get into the world of startups. After pretty much every presentation I’ve been asked the same question by one or more people in attendance: how did you guys [...]

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Startup Company Networking

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by Eric | Oct 22, 2010, 10:37am EST

Networking is an absolute must for the early stage startup.  Often at the Roach Post I end up writing articles that I think I too need work on, and this is no exception.  I think of all the mistakes I have made in business over my career, the greatest is in that I have failed [...]

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