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Startup America Partnership

Feld Thoughts

On Monday I was at the White House to help announce the Startup America Partnership. For an awesome description of Startup America, please read Aneesh Chopra’s (the United States CTO) post on TechCrunch titled Startup America: A Campaign To Celebrate, Inspire And Accelerate Entrepreneurship.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

It was adopted by the National Institutes of Health as I-Corps at NIH in 2014 and at the National Security Agency in 2015. Today if college students want to give back to their country they think of Teach for America , the Peace Corps , or Americorps or perhaps the US Digital Service or the GSA’s 18F.

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How to Become Your Own Boss in 2015 (Webinar Recap)

Up and Running

I had the opportunity to speak with Melinda Emerson, the “SmallBizLady” and America’s #1 small business expert, who took the opportunity to share with us her proven, step-by-step method to transition from employee to entrepreneur. I actually have a chapter in the new book on how to develop a successful crowdfunding campaign.

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18 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I co-founded CoverWallet with my friend, Inaki Berenguer, in 2015 after we saw firsthand the difficulties businesses face when it comes to managing insurance. I was tired of the bureaucracy of government and corporate work along with limited vacation days (my balance was always bouncing off of zero!). Image Credit: Rashmi Melgiri.

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In Times of Pandemic, In Gates We Trust

Reid Hoffman

If anything kills over 10 million people in the next few decades,” Bill exclaimed in a 2015 TED Talk , “it’s most likely to be a highly infectious virus, rather than a war.”. With the Ebola outbreak in 2014 and 2015, people got so sick so fast that they were typically bedridden by the time they were contagious.

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18 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Did Prior to Starting Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

It could be studying entrepreneurship in school or it could have been working with a government contractor or maybe someone had a sales job. More importantly, we continue to help the community through pro-bono projects, supporting non-profits and charitable campaigns, and giving back where and when we can. It’s usually a process.

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35 Leading Women Entrepreneurs Paving The Way For Success

Designmantic Blog

In 2015, Facebook anointed her as the Small Business and Facebook Marketing expert. If there is one person who is able to provide creative solutions to complicated problems for governments, corporations and NFOs, it is definitely Holly Ransom. She has had a hand in a variety of social media campaigns for Chevy, Susan G.