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100 Startups Join Forces with Air Force Stakeholders at Inaugural Spark Collider Event

Austin Startup

The closing panel on Day 1 felt like the start of a witty punchline, “A startup founder, a government official, and a venture capitalist walk into a room…”?—?what This layout allowed founders to interact directly with stakeholders and potentially draft memorandum of understanding (MOU) commitments right then and there.

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Maternova and the Business of Saving Lives: A Secret to Success Story

Up and Running

Meg Wirth and Allyson Cote, founders of Maternova. I was fortunate enough to speak with co-founder Allyson Cote, and hear the Maternova story, as well as some of its exciting plans for the future. 90 percent of our clients are ordering more than one product at a time, so we’re an aggregator.

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Business ecology and the four customer currencies

Startup Lessons Learned

In an ecosystem, each participant acts according to its own imperatives, but these selfish actions have an aggregate effect. And passionate players are often the backbone of game communities – especially online. We cultivated a passionate community that nurtured a skilled set of developers. Successful startups don’t.

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Hacking for Diplomacy @ Stanford –What We Learned With the State Department

Steve Blank

Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the State Department, Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies. These solutions, called Minimal Viable Products (MVP’s), are what allow the teams to become extremely agile and responsive. This post is a continuation of a series.

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Lessons Learned: Please teach kids programming, Mr. President

Startup Lessons Learned

We also learned that law is code , and that leadership was needed to build thriving communities in a digital age. Then you set up a web app to co-ordinate volunteers who can wipe a hard drive and install Ubuntu. But aggregated across many schools, there are thousands or tens of thousands of them. Good Post. then it was GW BASIC.

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MANAGING DIRECTOR OF TECHSTARS AUSTIN

Austin Startup

“I didn’t set out to write a book but as we looked around the market for an operational playbook for sales, we couldn’t find one, so I tapped into my 20 years of sales experience and my network so that we could create a valuable resource for founders everywhere,” said Schwartzfarb. Denver, CO?—? RSVP here Sept. New York City, NY Sept.

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Out of the Crisis #3, Jen Pahlka and Raylene Yung on creating the U.S. Digital Response

Startup Lessons Learned

They co-founded it with former U.S. Jen is the founder and former executive director of Code for America. 35:50) Building community on text messages and threads. (38:30) She has been an advocate for a more responsive, a more resilient, more agile government. Some of it's communication. Digital Response.