Big Ideas Getting Planned, Part 1
CTO Think Podcast5 Touko 2020

Big Ideas Getting Planned, Part 1

Don brings in a few examples from an upcoming Big Idea Gator Business Plan Competition in which he's playing the role of a judge. We discuss the importance of good writing, identifying the problem, and setting reasonable goals and metrics to give folks the notion you have some idea what you're doing. In Part 1, we discuss the weakest entries before tackling the better ones in Part 2.

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