| Date | Topic | Slides and Video | Speaker |
| Thursday, 9/9/2010 | How to Start a Company: The Story of GrassRoots |
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Doug Eisner (Fuqua '07) Co-Founder and COO of GrassRoots Biotechnology |
| Thursday, 9/16/2010 | How to Start a Company: The Story of Shoeboxed.com |  | Taylor Mingos '07 Founder and CEO of Shoeboxed.com |
| Thursday, 9/23/2010 | Venture Capital 101 |  | Mitch Mumma '81 Intersouth Partners |
| Thursday, 9/30/2010 | Intro to Entrepreneurial Law | Slides | Bill Brown '80 Duke Law School Palmer Labs & 8 Rivers Capital |
| Thursday, 10/7/10 | How to Start a Company: The Story of ReverbNation |  Slides | Jed Carlson '05 Co-Founder of ReverbNation |
| Thursday, 10/21/10 | Will it Launch? |  Handout | Poornima Vijayashankar '04 CEO of BizeeBee |
| Thursday, 10/28/10 | How to Start a Company - Starting a Non-Tech Business |  Video | Jay Mebane '90, '99 Co-founder of SnapTotes.com |
2009-2010
| Date | Topic |
Slides and Video |
Speaker |
| Thursday, 9/17/2009 |
Entrepreneurship 101 |
 Video |
Brooks Bell '02 and Jesse Lipson '00 CEOs of Brooks Bell Interactive and ShareFile |
| Thursday, 9/24/2009 |
Entrepreneurial Law 101 |
 Video |
Bill Brown (Law '81) Visiting Law Professor, Cofounder of Palmer Labs, LLC, and 8 Rivers Capitall, LLC |
| Thursday, 10/08/2009 |
Venture Capital 101 |
 Video |
Mitch Mumma (Trinity '81) Intersouth Partners |
| Thursday, 10/15/2009 |
How to Get Your First iPhone/Facebook/Web Startup Out the Door |
Danny Briere '84 (Fuqua '85) Founder and CEO for TeleChoice. Inc |
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| Thursday, 10/22/09 | Breakthrough Medical Technologies (re-broadcast of MIT Enterprise Forum event) | Video from the original MIT Enterprise Forum broadcast | MIT Institute Prof. Robert Langer and Larry Boyd (Duke '07), Associate Director of Duke's Center for Entrepreneurship and Research |
| Thursday, 10/29/09 | Elevator Pitch Practice Run - With Live Judging |
 Slides Program from Event Video |
Jed Carlson (Fuqua '05), David Pierson (Fuqua '92), and Jonathan Gindes (Fuqua '03) Co-founder and COO of Reverbnation, Partner at Intersouth Partners, and Co-founder and CFO at Affinergy |
| Monday, 11/02/09 | Venture Capital 102 | Video from 2008 event | Katrin Burt Intersouth Partners |
| Thursday, 11/05/09 | Financing 101 |  Video | Richard West '79 CEO of Advanced Liquid Logic |
| Thursday, 11/12/09 | Building Your Team 101 | Jonathan Gindes '03 Affinergy Co-Founder | |
| Monday, 11/16/09 to Friday, 11/20/09 | 10th Annual Duke Start-Up Challenge, Elevator Pitch Competition with Google Ventures |  Finals Event with Google Ventures Summary Slides Program from Event Video | Bill Maris Co-founder, Google Ventures |
| Thursday, 1/21/10 | Business Plans 101 |  Slides Video | Tim Berry President and Founder, Palo Alto Software |
| Thursday, 2/18/10 | Creating Your Startup Financials | Bobby Bahram CFO & COO of TransLoc | |
| Wednesday, 2/24/10 | Strategies for Raising Money While You're Still a Student Panel Revealing of 35 Semi-Finalists for Duke Start-up Challenge |  | Jed Carlson '05, Co-founder and COO of Reverbnation Doug Eisner ‘07, Co-founder and COO of GrassRoots Biotechnology, Matt Kane ‘06, Co-founder and CEO of Precision Biosciences, Jesse Lipson ’00, Founder and President of ShareFile, |
| Thursday, 4/8/10 | Investor Pitch Finals of the Duke Start-Up Challenge |  Information Results Video | From the original 109 teams, we've selected 7 teams to pitch at the the Investor Pitch Finals. |
Have trouble accessing the slides or videos? Please contact Danni Lin at idl2@duke.edu.
2008-2009
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Date |
Topic |
Slides |
Speaker |
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Monday,9/15/2008 |
Entrepreneurship 101: |
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Aaron Patzer ‘02 Founder and CEO of Mint.com (Winner of the TechCrunch 40 in 2007) |
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Thursday , 9/25/08 |
Planning Your Startup 101: "Evaluating ideas and building a team" plus: Idea Evaluation Workshop Event |
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Dave Samuel,serial entrepreneur Founder of Spinner, Grouper, and Brondell |
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Thursday, 10/2/08 |
Financing 101: plus: Duke Start-Up Challenge Matching Event |
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Rich West ‘79, biotech entrepreneur CEO of Advanced Liquid Logic |
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Thursday, 10/9/08 |
VC 101: |
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Rob Hallford '05, venture capitalist Pappas Ventures Amy Laverdiere '09 Hatteras Venture Partners
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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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Matt Kane '06 CEO of Precision Biosciences |
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10/23/08 |
Break |
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10/30/08 |
Social Entrepreneurship 101:
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Rick Larson, venture capitalist |
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Thursday, 11/6/08 |
VC 102: |
 Slides | Video |
Katrin Burt ‘04, venture capitalist Intersouth Partners |
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Thursday, 11/13/08 |
Elevator Pitches 101: |
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Thursday,11/20/08 |
Lessons on being entrepreneurial from mental_floss and from Duke Football Special double header, part of |
5:30pm: Will Pearson ‘01, co-founder and President of mental_floss magazine 6:30pm: Coach David Cutcliffe, Head Coach of Duke Football |
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Thursday, 12/4/08 |
Intellectual Property 101 "Protect your ideas, make them an asset" |
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Lawrence Boyd ‘07 Palmetto Biomedical |
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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
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 Slides |
Frank Zenie, Serial Entrepreneur Founder of Zymark, Automated Sample |
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Thursday, 2/12/09 |
Startup Financials 101 "Prepare simple startup financials that an investor will appreciate" |
 Slides |
Bobby Bahram, Startup CFO CFO of Radarfind |