Date | Topic | Slides | Speaker | Monday,9/15/2008 | Entrepreneurship 101:
"Overview" | 
Slides | Video | Aaron Patzer ‘02
Founder and CEO of Mint.com
(Winner of the TechCrunch 40 in 2007) | Thursday , 9/25/08 | Planning Your Startup 101: "Evaluating ideas and building a team"
plus: Idea Evaluation Workshop Event
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Slides | Video
| Dave Samuel,serial entrepreneur
Founder of Spinner, Grouper, and Brondell
| Thursday, 10/2/08 | Financing 101:
"Understand the different financing options"
plus: Duke Start-Up Challenge Matching Event | 
Slides | Video
| Rich West ‘79, biotech entrepreneur
CEO of Advanced Liquid Logic | Thursday, 10/9/08 | VC 101:
"Introduction to Venture Capital"
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Slides | Video
| Rob Hallford '05, venture capitalist Pappas Ventures
Amy Laverdiere '09 Hatteras Venture Partners
| Thursday, 10/16/08 | Business Plans 101: "Present your idea to investors" including detailed analysis of How to Write a Business Plan
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Slides | Video
| Matt Kane '06
CEO of Precision Biosciences | 10/23/08 | Break |
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| 10/30/08 | Social Entrepreneurship 101:
"Financing social ventures"
| | Rick Larson, venture capitalist
formerly of SJF Ventures | Thursday, 11/6/08 | VC 102:
"Advanced Venture Capital Topics:
Deal Flow, Term Sheets, etc"
|  Slides | Video | Katrin Burt ‘04, venture capitalist
Intersouth Partners | Thursday, 11/13/08 | Elevator Pitches 101:
"Sell your idea/company in under 1 minute" | 
Slides | Video
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| | hursday,11/20/08 | Lessons on being entrepreneurial from mental_floss and from Duke Football
Special double header, part of
Entrepreneurship Week at Duke University www.eweekatduke.com
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| 5:30pm: Will Pearson ‘01, co-founder and President of mental_floss magazine 6:30pm: Coach David Cutcliffe, Head Coach of Duke Football | Thursday, 12/4/08 | Intellectual Property 101 "Protect your ideas, make them an asset"
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Slides | Lawrence Boyd ‘07
Palmetto Biomedical |
| Holiday Break |
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| Thursday, 1/22/09 | Business Plans 101 (Reprise) "Present your ideas to investors"
including detailed analysis of How to Write a Business Plan
|  Slides
| Frank Zenie, Serial Entrepreneur
Founder of Zymark, Automated Sample | Thursday, 2/12/09 | Startup Financials 101 "Prepare simple startup financials that an investor will appreciate" | 
Slides | Bobby Bahram, Startup CFO CFO of Radarfind
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