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Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out – The Startup Genome Project

Steve Blank

In April 2010 I received an email that said, “I’m an incoming Stanford student in the fall and working on a project that a number of people suggested I get in touch with you about.&#. Founders overestimate the value of IP before product market fit by 255%. . Ok, I get a lot of these. I was feeling pretty old.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

See Customer Development Engineering for my first stab at articulating the theory involved) Ferocious customer-centric rapid iteration, as exemplified by the Customer Development process. Since that time we've seen a massive change from product engineering to financial engineering. April 6, 2010 8:23 AM Colie Brice said.

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26 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

Several “experts” in marketing and advertising, and IP lawyers, tried to talk me into changing it. So if you were to use Google or any other search engine, your name would be lost in the crowd. I got an engineering degree and worked on various entrepreneurial projects but my heart was always in data science and analytics.

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Series Seed Financing Documents

www.seriesseed.com

Step 2 (as opposed to version 1.1) » 02/25/2010. Posted by: toby | 03/01/2010 at 09:52 PM. Posted by: Ted Wang | 03/01/2010 at 10:45 PM. Posted by: Yokum | 03/01/2010 at 11:30 PM. Posted by: Walt | 03/02/2010 at 02:43 AM. Posted by: Dan Greenberg | 03/02/2010 at 05:43 AM. Blog Archives.

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Singapore’s ClearBridge BioMedics Raises $9 Million Series B

YoungUpstarts

. “We launched our ClearCell™ System for the cancer research market in 2011, and have built up a strong customer base across Asia, Europe and the United States,” says Chen, who added that much of the funding will go towards getting the company’s technology – of which the IP or intellectual property is leased from the National (..)

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An Open Letter to Startup Founders Everywhere in a Time of Crisis

David Cohen

You are the engine of our future, after all. The market sucked until around 2010 when everyone and their sister decided they wanted to create an accelerator too. Other startups will fail, and you can acquire their talent, their IP, their customer bases for cheap. Now is the time for you to adapt, to show your strength.

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Pick the Perfect Name for Your Startup

mashable.com

Johnson also says that search engine issues have affected the style of names. Amidst all the search engine and domain name drama, consider that names are memorable when they sound good. Submissions once a day till Nov 26, 2010 per category Top 5 per category will advance to finalists round Good luck to everyone! Is It Sticky?

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