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These Five Principles Will Accelerate Innovation

Steve Blank

To help a large Defense organization wrestle with how to increase the velocity of innovation in their ranks Steve Blank and I spent the better part of last week with our heads together reviewing everything we learned in the five years since we merged the concepts of problem curation and Lean while launching the innovation pipeline.

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Top Startup Winner: Balodana

The Startup Magazine

We curate and aggregate a collection of talented made-to-measure designer brands who showcase their garments in our integrated marketplace platform. Then in 2016 I found a dressmaker in Romania who created fashion-forward designs that were made to measure, and the light bulb went off!

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The Full Dataset on What VCs are Thinking About Funding in 2016

Both Sides of the Table

Our last thoughts on the VC funding markets heading into 2016 was published here and I followed up with a little more context on the resetting of the venture industry , some thoughts on how startups are valued and how to think about burn rates at startups. VC survey data 2016 from Mark Suster.

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My new fascination with Podcasts

VC Cafe

The reason podcasts captured my imagination today, is a podcast I listened to (very meta) by Recode’s Peter Kafka, and Nick Quah, journalist and curator of HotPod. According to the Interactive Advertising Bureau, podcast industry ad revenue will reach $220 million in 2017, up 85 percent from 2016’s $119 million ( source ).

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Walmart’s Been On A Buying Spree. Which Company Could It Acquire Next?

Up and Running

acquisition of Jet.com in August 2016 transformed the company beyond the addition of the Jet platform. Walmart also recently expanded its in-store robotics program, partnering with startup Bossa Nova Robotics to install robots in 50 stores to monitor shelves and help with restocking. Walmart’s $3.3B POTENTIAL ACQUISITION TARGETS.

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Thoughts from Mulesoft and AppDynamics IPO Filings

BeyondVC

See Jeff Leventhal’s post ( boldstart venture partner and Workrails cofounder/CEO) on why services continue to matter for cloud vendors. curated by Replicated (full disclosure: boldstart is an investor). Same goes for why on-prem. in banking, insurance, and health care. If interested, take a look at EnterpriseReady.io

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The Future of Entrepreneurship Hinges on Bringing People and Tech Together

ReadWriteStart

In 2016, the event industry generated $325 billion in direct spending — through hotels, catering, exhibitions, and events centers — and an even more impressive $845 billion in business sales. Entrepreneurs find people they genuinely enjoy, and we hear often about people partnering or combining companies.

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