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Clayton Christensen

Steve Blank

I remember the first time I read the Innovator’s Dilemma in 1997. Customer Development became one of the three parts of the Lean Startup as Eric Ries and Alexander Osterwalder provided the other two components (Agile Engineering and the business model canvas.) I never got to say thank you. Eye Opening.

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Why Now Is The Right Time For New Green Technology

YoungUpstarts

It took a big advance in technology combined with rising gasoline prices to prepare consumers to finally accept hybrid power, and they did so with the 1997 arrival of the Toyota Prius — more than 100 years after the first electric car. The world was ready for gasoline power at that time, not electric. Now, permeable pavers are back.

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Welcoming Bobby Schnabel Back to CU Boulder

Feld Thoughts

Bobby Schnabel has returned to CU Boulder as the College of Engineering and Applied Science faculty director for entrepreneurial leadership , external chair of computer science, and campus thought-leader on computing. While you may not know Bobby, this is a huge add for CU Boulder and the Boulder Startup Community.

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Looking for Funds in All the Right Places

Austin Startup

Looking more closely at the pacing of the funds Austin Ventures raised in the table below, it also got caught up in the Dot Com frenzy, raising new, much larger funds almost every year from 1997–2001. Upon graduation with his MBA, Stephen was a Kauffman Fellow, a national Fellowship awarded to a select group of venture capitalists each year.

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Don’t Underestimate the Undergraduates

Steve Blank

Jim has founded six companies, including Preview Travel, one of the first online travel agencies, which went public in 1997 and subsequently merged to create Travelocity.com as an independent company. Jim Hornthal splits his time between venture capital, entrepreneurship and education. And Zignal Labs. Jim co-taught classes with me at U.C.

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Paying Lip Service to Developing Entrepreneurs

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

That in turn would refresh our economy, create wealth, jobs, and stable communities. in 1997 to 24.7 The percentage of new entrepreneurs who are women has also dropped significantly since 1997. They have an admirable initiative to inspire entrepreneurialism in engineering and technology students. That is not good.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 26: Javier Saade and Hillary Hartley

Steve Blank

Javier : … the entrepreneurial engine of the United States is bar none the most efficient wealth creation and job creation tool that has ever existed. … . Hillary has been working to make government more accessible and available online for nearly two decades, starting as a web designer for Arkansas.gov in 1997.