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Schuyler Cullen & Dirk Smits Founders, Summer Robotics 2021 Commencement Speech, Close School of Entrepreneurship, Drexel University I am honored to give the 2021 Commencement Speech for the Close School, an institution which

My Favorite Kind of Founder At a recent accelerator demo day, someone asked me what I look for in a founder It took a bit of soul searching to construct my answer Here’s what I came up with

Three Lessons Learned in Three Years of Investing Here are the top three lessons I’ve learned or relearned about investing in order of importance

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My Experiments with Design Thinking In early 2011, while I was working at Maxim, I signed up for a “Design Thinking Boot Camp” at Stanford’s d school I hoped it

What Would Peter Drucker Say About The Future? One of my heroes is Peter Drucker He recognized, before any of the other management thinkers of the

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The exceptional leader is one who follows instinct and intuition even when popular opinion points in a different direction, excels at both

Avoid Hiring Someone Looking For A Job Recruiting is by far the most difficult activity we do It is the most important, yet least urgent of you