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The Great Coding School Rollup of 2015

Feld Thoughts

These are typically four to 12 week programs. In fact, I know a few companies that put computer science grads through these types of programs as an on boarding process. The post The Great Coding School Rollup of 2015 appeared first on Feld Thoughts. I just saw my first proposal for a Coding School Rollup.

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5 Things Businesses Should Do Now To Ensure 2015 Success

YoungUpstarts

With the end of the 2015 fiscal year nearing, businesses may be reviewing their consolidated revenues and thinking of ways they can increase their profit margin as they enter the new fiscal year or second-half of the calendar year. by Richard Milam , the Founder and CEO of EnableSoft Incorporated.

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Five case studies you'll see at the Lean Startup Conference 2015

Startup Lessons Learned

With this approach to establishing and tracking milestones, ReadyTalk launched its beta of UbiMeet.com in March 2015. One of their major initiatives is to launch marketing programs that engage customers in a fresh, new way. Come hear about them live at the 2015 Lean Startup Conference. You can read more about 18F here.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

In response to reading Eric Ries’s The Lean Startup , GE adopted Lean and built their Fastworks program around it. Instead of lean innovation programs, there is a mandate to cut $2 billion in expenses by the end of next year, lift profits and raise the dividend. In 2015 Trian Partners, an activist investor, bought $2.5

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

Although the class was run completely online, and even though they were suffering from Zoom fatigue, the 10 teams of 42 students collectively interviewed 1,142 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, industry partners, etc. – while simultaneously building a series of minimal viable products.

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Why Has Seed Investing Declined? And What Does this Mean for the Future?

Both Sides of the Table

With Things Going So Well for Seed Funds the Winds Shifted in 2015 Seed investors had a good run and all seemed rosy and then in 2015 the momentum seemed to shift. thus the rise of “pre seed” investing). It’s very noticeable in terms of funds raised, dollars invested and deals completed.

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The New Startup: Legal Financing & Lawsuit Loans

YoungUpstarts

The practice of legal financing dates back to the early 1990s, but it didn’t take off in the United States until Credit Suisse Securities launched a litigation lending program in 2006 that later became its own company in 2012. If you haven’t heard about legal financing or lawsuit loans before, that may change. Lack of Regulation.

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