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1. Build Your Lean Canvas

Share your thinking and pivot.

Techstars’ Zach Nies gets your ready to take your initial idea to the next level with the Lean Canvas. This powerful tool will help you think through how to describe your business.

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2. Understand Your Customers

Know their problem better than anyone else

Developing the right problem is more important than building the right solution. This segment will help you identify and evaluate the issues from the perspective of your market.

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3. Understand Category Design

Learn how to create and dominate markets

Kevin Maney, Category Design Advisors and co-author of Play Bigger, teaches you how to use strategic Category Design to rise above industry noise.

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4. Create New Markets With Category Design

Execute your Category Design strategy

Mike Damphousse, Category Design Advisors, teaches you how to execute Category Design strategy.

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5. Position Your Product

Effectively communicate key messaging

Techstars mentor David Mandell shares how to effectively communicate your business through your pitch and drive customers to your solution.

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6. Brand Your Business

Use the most powerful branding tools

Thought-leader Chuck Pettis, President of Brand Solutions and former VP of Marketing at MakerBot, shares his secrets to brand strategy.

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7. Give Your Elevator Pitch

Effectively describe your business

Can you convey your business in less than 30 seconds? This section will help you to grab the attention and interest of customers and investors.

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8. Get More Done

Set productive personal and team habits

Know your strengths and weaknesses. This section provides some helpful advice and guidance on tools to help you get the most out of your time and effort.

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9. Grow Your Business With KPIs

Use performance indicators to scale up

Techstars’ Zach Nies explains how to use Key Performance Indicators to optimize your operations and take your business to the next level.

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10. Make Progress With Goals

Learn effective goal setting

This section will help you learn how to think about, choose, and act on strategic goals so you and your business can make progress.

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11. Check Your Progress

Measure and pivot your goals

To make progress, you first need to know that outputs are not outcomes. This section will help you establish focused goals and figure out what key results to track.

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12. Master Your Pitch

Intrigue them by demonstrating

Investors are in the room, and it’s time for you to shine. This section will teach you how to be informative, likeable, and low-risk.

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13. Navigate Cofounder Relationships

Build healthy cofounder relationships

Nicole Glaros, Partner & Chief Investment Officer, Techstars, helps co-founders get through difficult times and build a healthy relationship.

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14. Engage With Mentors

Build relationships with mentors

Others have gone before you. They have failed and they have succeeded. Learn how to learn from them and to make the most of your time and their experience.

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15. Twenty One Ways to Blow Up Your Company

Avoid these company pitfalls

These landmines could be happening right now. This section will help you avoid the 21 ways that close business doors.

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16. Build an Investor Pipeline

Improve your odds in raising capital

No matter how easy you think fundraising will be, it never is. Learn about all the company materials you need to prepare before talking to investors.

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17. EQ for Entrepreneurs

EQ is a powerful tool that can impact the success of your business

Learn how EQ impacts leadership and communication skills and drives company growth.

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18. Build a Diverse Workforce

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion efforts can help boost growth

Learn how Diversity, Equity and Inclusion efforts can help boost growth, generate a higher ROI, and retain employees

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19. The W3 Framework

Develop a repeatable sales process

W3 is a simple framework that enables founders and CEOs to figure out how to get on the path to product-market-fit and know when you've achieved it.

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20. Entrepreneurs & Mental Health

Watch our 4-part original series

This series focuses on the most common mental health issues facing entrepreneurs, told through the stories of some remarkable people — and health professionals who work with people in need.

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