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What I Learned from the Viking Startup Bus: Europe 2012

While I learned a million things over the last 10 days, I think these are the most important ones. They were things I *knew* before, but I didn't really understand the meaning in such a profound way: 1 - Communications skills extend way beyond listening and verbal acuity. The Dutchies I spent most of my…

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The Pitch

I had 8 hours of sleep total over the past 96 hours. We pitched

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Paris Arrival and Getting to the Pitch

Monday morning at 2 am, we arrived at the tiniest, lamest hostel I've ever been to. The accommodations were typical Parisian hostel, but the staff was simply miserable. They weren't particularly interested in the 70 of us or assisting us in any way. We checked in (slowly) and my team got to work. We decided…

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It’s Crunch Time.

In less than 45 minutes, Daniel will do the first public presentation of our company Qbeeco (

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Hive is Buzzing!

Wow. I've never launched a site less than 36 hours before. I mean, sure, we've launched site quickly... but usually not for a company and concept that didn't exist before we started. httpss://bitly.com/YBkFLN

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Facebook page live

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Two of a kind.

Really tough pitch last night - you can watch it here: Daniel with QBeeCo is my teammate pitching. We met up with the German bus at a hostel in Hamburg where we had a midnight pitch-off. As we were waiting for our turn, Team Marshmallow from the German bus came up to pitch their kid…

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Aristotle.

Discussing parenting models with four single, childless people is a fascinating thing. The conversation around our business model has evolved into a discussion of the Social Compact, Adam Smith's economics, relationship modeling, parenting, accountability and personal responsibility. What's interesting to me is that I'm realizing all big ideas for businesses and products come down to…

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Our bus will be streamed live here from time to time

Our bus will be streamed live here from time to time

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What’s Your Idea?

We arrived at the Copenhagen School of Entrepreneurship to find a couple of cases of Danish beer, two dozen cool kids and a room full of chatter, energy and pitches. It seemed like half the people there had *the* idea that was going to make a million dollars, and they were definitely the guy to…

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