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Organization That Failed to Innovate – Avoid Their Fate

ReadWriteStart

Ironically, the founder of Netflix, Reed Hastings, made an offer to Blockbuster to buy out Netflix for $50 million in 2000. As well, Yahoo didn’t care to build a robust search engine feature on its platform. Application Development Activity. To learn more about Yahoo, we search on Google.

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10 College Business Incubators We’re Most Excited About

YoungUpstarts

Boasting resources for life sciences, bio-tech, medical devices, photonics, clean energy, and engineering, BU can help to incubate businesses in just about any physical technology. Only 15 technology startups are accepted at a time, but what the program lacks in quantity, it makes up for in quality. Syracuse Student Sandbox.

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The mid-market briar patch

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

During the summer, one of the Capital Factory companies developed a plan to sell into the “mid-sized” corporate market. WP Engine is a perfect example of this. People with $50/mo blogs have many of the same problems as people with $2000/mo blogs but pay us 40x less, which might imply we should focus on the high-end blogger.

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Former Head of Microsoft Israel Dreams of Billion Dollar Israeli Startups

VC Cafe

about Moshe Lichtman, and why he is one of few men or women capable of leading an Israeli startup to global billions. Moshe joined Microsoft in 1991 as a product manager after a career as a software developer. In 2006, Moshe was promoted to corporate vice president and head of Israel Research and Development.

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Why Build, Measure, Learn – isn’t just throwing things against the wall to see if they work

Steve Blank

It’s time to update Build, Measure, Learn to what we now know is the best way to build Lean startups. Back then, an entrepreneur used a serial product development process that proceeded step-by-step with little if any customer feedback. Then came the Build-Measure-learn focus of the Lean Startup. Here’s how.

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Introducing Codespace – shared (free!) office space in Boulder for geeking out

VC Adventure

Today there’s another new initiative launching to help young tech companies in our community – Trada is opening CodeSpace , a free co-working space dedicated to startup developers and software engineers.

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Open Source Business Model

SoCal CTO

There are quite a few other Software Development Companies in Southern California working on open source and/or freemium business models. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S.