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Sponsor Spotlight - Baker Donelson - Register Your Trademarks Early
From idea to IPO, the Baker Donelson Emerging Companies Team is here to support your business.
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EC Sponsor Spotlight - Baker Donelson Entrepreneur Minute
Understand Your Customer's Problems: Treat the Root Cause, Not the Symptoms
Michael Burcham speaks on addressing customer pain points and building a business that solves problems, not symptoms.
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Flip the Napkin
The seven words that start every business: “Holy crap, I have an awesome idea.”
Every great business starts as an idea. Unfortunately, so do all the bad ones (and there tend to be more of these). The central question every aspiring...
Social Enterprise, Profit and Raising a Green Fund in Nashville
Social Enterprise, Profit and Raising a Green Fund in Nashville
(Long post but a must read for serious social enterprise entrepreneurs!)
Social enterprise and funding social entrepreneurs is the topic of the day....
Midnight at the EC
It’s midnight again at the EC.
Most people, normal people have been asleep for hours.
Here, it might as well be noon.
Emails still ping back and forth. Ideas still buzz through the air. The mountain of work still dwindles and grows...
The Difference in Ideas and Opportunities
I’m going to let you in on a little secret. Contrary to what many aspiring entrepreneurs believe, the key to a successful startup does not rest upon having a unique, one-of-a-kind idea. Don’t get me wrong. A good idea is a necessary starting...
5 Tips to Pitch
It’s the same as the time it takes to scramble an egg.
It’s less than the length of the average pop song.
It’s all the time you have to convince investors to consider investing your idea.
In two minutes, investors are going...