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= <span id="docs-internal-guid-63a692bd-d484-66b7-42fc-278186a37723"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Priority #1: Skill Matching</span></span> =
<span id="docs-internal-guid-63a692bd-d484-66b7-42fc-278186a37723"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">It is necessary to match up appropriate skill sets between students at Washington University. Students need to know where they can find students who are actively looking to join startups, so that they do not waste time chasing leads that do not want to join their ventures. We have already developed and sent out a Skills Survey to students, that asks about the skills they currently have (business, marketing, technical, sales, etc) and the skills they would like to learn.</span></span>
<span style="font-size:larger;"><span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"></span></span>Spring 2017:</span>
<span style="font-size:larger;">We tested an analog prototype of a web-based subscription service where people can input their skills and be contacted by people with skills they are looking for (an "EHarmony for forming startup groups"). We would need to verify that non-students will have sufficient incentive to also subscribe to this service as potential mentors for a project.</span>
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<span style="font-size:small;"><span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"></span></span>Spring 2016:</span>
<span style="font-size:small;"><span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">We have already developed and sent out a Skills Survey to students, that asks about the skills they currently have (business, marketing, technical, sales, etc) and the skills they would like to learn.</span></span></span>
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<span style="font-size:small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-63a692bd-d484-66b7-42fc-278186a37723"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">We have received around 50 responses, but we need to promote the survey more widely to reach interested members of the student population. We also need to share it among the graduate programs at Washington University, since our entrepreneurship program is one of the few that allows both undergrads and grads to participate.</span></span></span>
= <span id="docs-internal-guid-63a692bd-d484-66b7-42fc-278186a37723"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Priority #2: Mentor Network</span></span> =