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7 Key Ingredients to Address the Challenge of Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

Keep your company focused on the business areas and functions that fit your strategic direction, by periodically eliminating non-contributing activities, organizations, and business units. With growth opportunities, the first capable response often wins; not necessarily the first mover, but the first one to provide a competent reaction.

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Qualcomm’s Corporate Entrepreneurship Program – Lessons Learned (Part 2)

Steve Blank

A Proof of Concept center, which is not the same as a full-fledged incubator, would also be responsible to develop a companywide core competence in business model and open innovation design and a VC-like, staged-risk funding decision criteria for new market opportunities. Lessons Learned.

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Eureka! A New Era for Scientists and Engineers

Steve Blank

government agency that supports research in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering - is changing the startup landscape for scientists and engineers. They’ll explore the best way to deliver the product to customers, the resources required, as well as competing technologies. Until today. billion U.S.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

questions and answers for non-programmers. Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. Agile project management. agile product management. agile product management and Scrum tool. Agile project management tool collaborative product life-cycle. Automates Agile / Scrum development.

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Eureka! National Science Foundation's I-Corps Trains a New Generation of Scientists in Business

ReadWriteStart

government agency that supports research in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering, is changing the startup landscape for scientists and engineers. They'll explore the best way to deliver the product to customers, the resources required, as well as competing technologies. billion U.S.

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What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups?

Startup Lessons Learned

I'm a bit late, and this one might be controversial to some, but long-duration non-competes hurt the development of startups by adding friction to the entrepreneurial economy. Thirdly, revamp how intellectual property rights are applied to software and code. It would be good to spread understanding on this issue.

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