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Joining the Kauffman Fellows Board

Feld Thoughts

If you aren’t familiar with the Kauffman Fellows Program, it recently celebrated its 20th anniversary. The power of the network and how it impacts both the venture capital industry and the startup ecosystem is profound. In September, I joined the board of Kauffman Fellows.

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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. Building an entrepreneurship ecosystem.

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Why Internal Ventures are Different from External Startups

Steve Blank

For those who don’t know, I wrote the book Open Innovation in 2003, and followed it with Open Business Models in 2006, and Open Services Innovation in 2011. This leads to two key points: Point 1: You have to fight – and win- on two fronts (both outside and inside), in order to succeed in corporate venturing.

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500 Startups Hits the Accelerator Pedal (and Program) Again

www.readwriteweb.com

Those 3 startups will join another 17 to comprise the next batch of startups in the 500 Startups Accelerator Program. This is the second class of startups for the program, the first class having graduated this past spring. Those winners are StoryTree , Culture Kitchen , and Volta. The full list is below). startupcto

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Hydrogen-Powered Defense: The Next Big Thing?

ReadWriteStart

Department of Defense (DoD) and the venture capital firm Sequoia Capital are interested in the company because they believe the technology it develops could give the U.S. million in Mach’s seed round came from companies like Marque VC and Champion Hill Ventures. billion in 2018.

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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

The University of Houston has the number one undergraduate entrepreneurship program in the country and Rice University has the number one graduate entrepreneurship program in the country. Research Institute, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, and several public universities and Department of Defense research and development programs.

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8 Risky Business Investments That Paid Off Big

YoungUpstarts

chief, came to the rescue in 2003 and helped turn the company around for the better. Their patience paid off months later when big name venture capital firms Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sequoia Capital invested $25 million in Google. Believe it or not, but the uber successful retailer, J. TOMS Shoes.