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The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Education and Corporate Innovation

Steve Blank

Philip Bouchard : You’ve started teaching at Berkeley since 2002, Columbia in 2003 and at Stanford since 2011. At Stanford, Tom Byers , who runs the innovation and entrepreneurship program inside the engineering school, has made that a big deal and it’s now part of the curriculum. Innovators are not entrepreneurs.

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9 Big Businesses That Began In College

YoungUpstarts

Others, like Def Jam, have been transformed through mergers and acquisitions. Since 2002, Insomnia Cookies has grown into a large corporation, with its headquarters located in New York City and 20 branches in college communities across the country.

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Hacking For Defense In Silicon Valley

Steve Blank

In a major break from the past, where the military designed all its own weapons, 10,000 scientists and engineers from academia worked in civilian-run weapons labs (most headquartered in universities) in an organization called the Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD). In Afghanistan in 2002 U.S. Lessons Learned.

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#KillerSaaSPitch in 10 Words (Part 2)

Cracking the Code

When Elon Musk received $200 million from the proceeds of the PayPal acquisition in 2002, he re-invested everything to build the next big thing: $100 million in SpaceX and $100 million in Tesla. You can read the full story here ) #8 Engine Developing a scalable sales and marketing engine is a key element of success for SaaS companies.

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A Startup Journey With GrubHub Founder Mike Evans

Duct Tape Marketing

7:52] Was there competition that you had to buy up, and/or what type of acquisitions did you feel like you had to make? [9:19] Now that's, it's a little bit misleading in the sense that the investment, I could write the software myself because I got a software engineering degree from mit. Learning how to code myself was the investment.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

The Past (1985-2002). They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. After a few acquisitions they offered many of the services you think about as foundations to social networks today. What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks?

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The Rise of the Secondary Market for Emerging Growth Equities– Necessary But Insufficient

Pascal's View

2002: Sarbanes-Oxley creates more friction for companies that want to go public, but likely much less of a factor than people think, by imposing accounting and compliance costs for small companies that easily exceed $2 million per year. cents or 6.25 In my view, this is a myopic analysis for one simple reason.

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