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"In the last episode of TechStars, we saw why some startups need to change direction to find success.\nIn this episode, we'll watch as a pair of teams actually pivot toward new concepts and deal with the challenges and pitfalls of their decisions.\n\nWatch the Full Season of TechStars on Mashable\u00A0\nFor an entrepreneur who is really attached to his vision, knowing when to scrap it for a new direction can be a difficult skill to develop. Even more difficult is determining if your new idea is truly better than the original. Yet if your startup is floundering, the risk may be worth the potential rewards.\nCheck out the latest episode above, and be sure to leave your thoughts on the topic in the comments below.\nTechStars on Mashable\nGetting into a top startup accelerator program can make the difference between a company making it big and being lost in the ether. Mashable is going behind the scenes of that experience by bringing the show TechStars to our community.\nWe've made the entire series available on-demand, and chopped it up into short segments that are ideal for Internet viewing. Over the course of the next couple of months, we'll also be sharing each episode as part of a Mashable post, giving our community a chance to discuss the themes of each show in our comments section. You can read more about TechStars on Mashable here.\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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