Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

I spent Thanksgiving morning in a deer blind in Northern Michigan with my boyfriend’s father. He told me about his friend Pete Buttigieg whom I had actually read about in the press since he was garnering attention as a potential candidate to head the DNC. Pete’s background? We need to get away from “identity politics.”

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2019

In 2011 Professor Carter was in the first National Science Foundation I-Corps class. On my first day of school in Michigan I met Michael Krzys, who one day would be the best man at my wedding. I told four stories about the conflict between money and power versus the common good. But why serve your community, state or country?

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Altgate

OCTOBER 8, 2009

← Words of widsom from my youth Everything I Need to Know About Entrepreneurship I Learned at the University of Michigan → Comments are closed. The two most popular posts remain this one on term sheet negotiation and this one on venture debt , although this one on convertible debt is giving them a run for their money.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

I started Venture for America back in 2011 with the goal of creating thousands of American jobs in communities around the country. So, when I was researching my book, I looked into what actually happened to the manufacturing workers in Michigan, Indiana and in the South. *This interview has been edited for length and clarity*. .

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 22, 2011

Google Tech Talk, Friday. 4/1 noon-3pm - private Lean Startup Machine , Friday. That will be my last major public appearance for a while, as I'll need to take some time to recover before the book comes out.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 15, 2011

Autonomow team members: Jorge Heraud (MS Management, 2011) Business Unit Director, Agriculture, Trimble Navigation, Director of Engineering, Trimble Navigation, MS&E (Stanford), MSEE (Stanford), BSEE (PUCP, Peru). Fred Ford (MSME, Mar 2011) Senior Eng for Mechanical Systems on Military Satellites, BS Aerospace Eng (U of Michigan).

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Gust

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Access to our 2010 and 2011 surveys can be found at 2011 Valuation Survey of North American Angel Investor Groups. BELLE Capital (Michigan). Of the 22 groups included in both the 2012 and 2011 survey, 18 reported higher valuations while only 4 reported lower valuations. 2012 Valuation Survey. Organization. Life Science.

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The Next Web

MARCH 7, 2014

Plants in the office are part of something University of Michigan psychologists Rachel and Stephen Kaplan call “attention restoration theory.”. Two studies, one published in 2011 and another in the summer of 2013 , show participants can think more clearly and recall more information when plants are nearby in an office.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

In early 2011 an acquisition by a Fortune 500 company fell apart. based companies initially funded by venture capital between 2006 and 2011, 84% now are closely held and operating independently, 11% were acquired or made initial public offerings of stock and 4% went out of business, according to Dow Jones VentureSource. Connecticut.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2012

We’ve taught two cohorts: 21 teams ending in December 2011 , and 24 teams ending in May 2012. And to our new teaching teams at University of Michigan and Georgia Tech – It’s your turn. Over the last 6 months, we’ve been teaching a version of the Lean LaunchPad class for the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 19, 2011

Tomorrow I’m running the Philadelphia Marathon , which will be the sixth marathon I’ll do this year and the last one for 2011. This year I’ve done marathons in Cincinnati, Madison WI, Bismarck ND, Newport RI, and St. My times have ranged from 4:47:27 to 5:24:45. So the only thing I can pin my flatness on is fatigue.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

About 14% of the technology firms that have held initial public offerings between January 2011 and the end of June 2012 went public with at least two share classes—more than twice the 6.4% Faulted for Michigan Oil Spill. Faulted for Michigan Oil Spill. Faulted for Michigan Oil Spill. Enbridge, U.S. More Headlines.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

APRIL 26, 2011

From the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor: a peak inside the entrepreneurial eco-system with is a glimpse at the annual student start-up showcase. via 2011 Student Startup Showcase. Its nice to see cross campus collaboration! BTW, is engineering still ‘out’ on the North Campus?).

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 19, 2016

I started my company in 2011, after witnessing first-hand the sub-par performance some companies operated with because they were only in the homecare business for financial gain. Homebase’s free cloud based software helps thousands of small businesses eliminate the paperwork of managing hourly and freelance employees.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 23, 2012

Coursera makes college courses from elite universities, including Princeton University and the University of Michigan , available online for free. A $125 million grant made in 2011 to K12 , a company developing educational software for online schooling and testing, led that week to the company’s highest stock price in an entire year.

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2015

Errol : There was a unique opportunity in 2011 when the new director of National Science Foundation said, ‘We want to do something new and different [in helping scientists commercialize their technology].’ … He charged me. And right about that time you were publishing your notes to the Lean LaunchPad course in spring of 2011, Stanford, E245.

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Altgate

OCTOBER 15, 2009

It was at the request of Thomas Zurbuchen and Doug Neal who lead the University of Michigan College of Engineering Center for Entrepreneurship. Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Entrepreneurship , Startups and tagged entrepreneurship , solar car , startups , University of Michigan. Bookmark the permalink.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 6, 2009

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← Seeking CTO in Boston for Healthcare IT startup Popular Posts → Words of widsom from my youth Posted on September 6, 2009 by fnazeeri I’m preparing for a presentation in about a month at the University of Michigan.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

APRIL 22, 2013

Thirteen percent of this year’s Harvard Business School graduates founded or worked at a start-up last summer—a 4 percent increase since 2011—while 9 percent of both the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Stanford Graduate School of Business’s graduating classes did the same. Students] want a different skill set.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 25, 2011

The application deadline for Austin-based Capital Factory ’s 2011 program is Sunday , and momentum for tech startups and entrepreneurship in general are riding high as the SXSW Interactive festival wraps up.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 4, 2011

We need more high-caliber people in Ohio, Michigan and other mid-Western states. So that’s what’s on my mind this Independence Day 2011. Let them stay and help create jobs. How about a policy that they could be guaranteed to stay if they moved to high unemployment zones and created startups there?

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 28, 2013

To give you an example of that noise, brands, social networks and other organizations sent a record number of marketing messages in 2012, up 19% on 2011. She holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan. The rest is just digital noise. If You Liked This Post.

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Altgate

OCTOBER 23, 2009

← Everything I Need to Know About Entrepreneurship I Learned at the University of Michigan 2009 Startup Executive Compensation Survey Results → Comments are closed. Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Entrepreneurship , Green Business and tagged Clean Energy , Green Business , MIT , Obama , Viridus. Bookmark the permalink.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 18, 2011

Deficit as a % of GDP 3% in 2011, expected to be 2% in 2012 and down again to 1% in 2013. Robyn received her BA in Political Science from the University of Michigan and MSc in IPE from the LSE. Israel’s public expenditure as a percent of GDP around 40 to 50%, military spend accounts for 9% of that.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 12, 2011

Over the next two months I donated everything I owned, flew to Seattle, and launched the experiment on January 5, 2011. One thing that was a lot of fun was taking a bus with business and technology students from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor to the LeanStartup event in Grand Rapids. How will you define success?

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Altgate

JANUARY 13, 2009

I remember when I was in college and team leader of the University of Michigan Solar Car Team , I was often asked something along the lines of, “what’s your strategy&# or “how did you win [a national championship]&# and my answer was always, “we work harder.&# I was fortunate to learn this at an early age.

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Altgate

AUGUST 16, 2010

There are thousands of endowed chairs to study things like sports in daily life in ancient Rome (I actually took that class as an undergrad at U-Michigan). The idea here is that universities will build programs around anything donors and sponsors will fund and that somehow there’s no money in sales. Bookmark the permalink.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

Bruno’s Barkin’ Biscuits, LLC is a small, home-based company in Michigan specializing in all-natural, preservative free, and healthy dog treats. In 2011, I was looking for my next challenge. I started Bruno’s Barkin’ Biscuits, LLC because I want to offer dog owners a safe and healthy treat option when it comes to their pups.

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