Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Crowd funding is setting new records worldwide, with $17 billion from North America alone, and VCs poured another $100 billion more into small growth companies last year. Startup incubators and accelerators are popping up everywhere. Business incubators were all the rage before the dot-com bubble (700 for profit, many more non-profit).

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

Hacking for Diplomacy is a new course from the Management Science and Engineering department in Stanford’s Engineering school and Stanford’s International Policy Studies program that will be first offered in the Fall of 2016. Hacking for Diplomacy is not a product incubator for a specific technology solution.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

Hacking for Diplomacy is a new course from the Management Science and Engineering department in Stanford’s Engineering school and Stanford’s International Policy Studies program that will be first offered in the Fall of 2016. Hacking for Diplomacy is not a product incubator for a specific technology solution.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Customer Discovery and Lean Innovation in Academic Settings vs Non-Academic Settings such as incubators and accelerators. Tech Commercialization: innovators vs. entrepreneurs – motivating scientists and engineers. International: Success and Challenges of Lean Innovation and Customer Discovery in Europe and Asia [and South America?

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socialmatchbox.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

There is a huge demand for programmers in America – good and bad. Founders seem to take for granted exactly how in demand a good programmer is. Simultaneously, founders tend to take for granted how in demand bad programmers are too. Knowing this is half the battle. Ycombinator © 2010 Social Matchbox, - WordPress Themes by DBT.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2016

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. Translation: they learned a lot more, in a shorter period of time than in any other incubator, hackathon, entrepreneurship course we’ve ever taught or seen.).

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VC Cafe

JUNE 20, 2011

With over 1,300 registrants, about 30 speakers and 20 startups from Latin America competing on a €100K Euros prize, it’s one of the biggest entrepreneurship events of the year. More and more incubators are popping up, students are participating in business plan competitions, and actively look to get involved with startups.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

One of the greatest defeats of the feminist movement in America has been the phenomenon that women in the thirties are quitting the workforce in large numbers. Sramana has a master’s degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. I have observed society around us closely.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Customer Discovery and Lean Innovation in Academic Settings vs Non-Academic Settings such as incubators and accelerators. Tech Commercialization: innovators vs. entrepreneurs – motivating scientists and engineers. Lean Innovation in the Enterprise, Not-for-Profit and Government – what’s different. Australia?].

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2016

And a company culture and values need to be design and engineered just like the product. . Looking to create their accelerator/incubator, Wayne and seven other founders rented a Silicon Valley house together one summer. Silicon Valley’s pay-it-forward culture means that others will help when you’re starting up.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 20, 2017

In 2016, marijuana sales in North America grew by a massive 30 percent, and sales are projected to reach $20.2 Many states have only legalized cannabis for medical use, but that’s gradually changing as well. Currently, one in five Americans lives in a state where they can use cannabis recreationally, without a doctor’s note.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 3, 2017

If you are a qualified candidate for a prominent accelerator or incubator program in your field of interest, and, if you get accepted, you should go. But, it’s not a town to know and gain access to corporate America if that is a key component of your business model. It’s one way of de-risking the business.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 10, 2011

Next week, we are focusing on entrepreneurs in Latin and Central America. Sramana Mitra is the founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative, an educational, business development and incubation program that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond. Discuss.

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

AUGUST 31, 2010

So we elect an entrepreneur as President, who promises to unleash the free market to restore our economic engine of growth and prosperity. Ortmans' writes a post at Policy Forum Blog in which he examines the fact that, while an economic success story in South America, Chile has not been able to unleash entrepreneurial growth in its economy.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Were helping the second-largest city in the United States become a veritable tech center," Google says on its website, in trying to attract employees for sales and engineering positions. He has hired engineers from Loyola Marymount University , CalTech, University of Southern California and UCLA , he says. Want 300 days of sun a year?"

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

MARCH 2, 2010

Donna Fenn highlights The Unreasonable Institute , a new incubator formed in Colorado for social entrepreneurs, at her blog: This year, the incubator's first, the founders vetted 33 candidates from 284. a former child soldier to an MIT engineer. applications from 45 countries. Their criteria: "the ventures need to address.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

UT Austin is home to the Austin Technology Incubator (ATI), the longest-standing technology incubator in the country, which has had an economic impact of over $3 billion in Texas with a focus on deep tech such as healthcare, sustainability, and clean energy. Pepper Snapple, Frito-Lay PepsiCo, Pizza Hut, and Toyota North America.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

According to the latest Kaufman Startup Activity Index , entrepreneurs are making an unprecedented comeback in America, with data showing the largest year-over-year increase in two decades. Startup incubators and accelerators are popping up everywhere. Smartphone apps can be built for less than $10K, so who needs an investor?

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 20, 2011

In fact, at a time when we're facing severe youth unemployment in America and Europe, and the emerging markets are just starting to build their entrepreneurship eco-systems, we really need to think deeply on how more and more young people can be efficiently, rapidly and cost-effectively be trained in entrepreneurship. Photo by Bessarro.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

John Jantsch: So, startup incubators are all the rage these days, do you ever see a side hustle incubator? So, I guess incubators are good for support, for mentorship, or connecting with people and stuff. .” I feel like relieving that pressure is really important. I haven’t. I actually really love it.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 18, 2014

We work with leading colleges, universities and research institutes throughout North America and Europe to advance student entrepreneurship. Now I live on airplanes and the TGV train. I started Founder.org in 2012. Student teams compete to participate in our program.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2011

Chile has decided that it wants to be an innovation hub in South America. Universities ; including the business, design and engineering schools in the Catholic University of Chile who are hard at work teaching and encouraging their students to think big and to start companies. Creating the Next Silicon Valley – The Chilean Experiment.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 15, 2020

As a kid growing up in America in a middle class family it just seemed so remote. Human talent, marketing, engineering, R&D. Now is the time to do those things so that you come on the other side after the reset, in America 2.0, I remember as a kid, my parents were victims of the Holocaust and fought in the wars.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 17, 2015

Launched from Haiti and scaled across Latin America- the social enterprise aims to digitize the $10trillion street vending industry and leverage tourism to alleviate 2 billion people out of poverty. Incubator is the term that perfectly defines what we do, but it was boring and bland. Thanks Ross, Spoken English Practice !

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David Teten

DECEMBER 2, 2019

I’m now researching non-dilutive funding for Action Tank , a startup I’m gestating to “Make America Functional Again”. The Aspen Tech Policy Hub is a West Coast policy incubator, training a new generation of tech policy entrepreneurs. Some specific accelerators: 17 Incubators For Impact Entrepreneurs and Social Enterprise.

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venturebeat.com

JULY 12, 2012

The Bing Fund, Microsoft’s newest incubator, to be headed by VoodooPC founder Rahul Sood. After playing coy and dropping hints for weeks, Microsoft has finally announced its newest incubator, the Bing Fund. Microsoft to acquire giant-tablet maker Perceptive Pixel. 3 days ago. 3 days ago. 4 days ago. From $1.5B Add a Comment.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

Being a resource-constrained entrepreneur, I wanted a co-founder because even if I got a paid engineer or an outsourced team to build it, I would still need to build a team, and there would be continuous development needs. Then, what’s missing — clearly an engineer — and why do I want a partner? Startup Weekend.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

In addition, those humans, collectively, are the majority of America and they reside disproportionately in non-primary markets. Grew up here in the Central Valley of California, left for early work and career in college, bounced around North America for a while, returned home to start this company. It was an incubator.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

There are millions of small businesses in America, butonly a few thousand are startups. Till now, nearly all seed firms have been so-called "incubators,"so Y Combinator gets calledone too, though the only thing we have in common is that we investin the earliest phase. What is an incubator? No, not generally.A Im not sure myself.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2017

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. of Management Science and Engineering. Our primary goal was to teach students entrepreneurship while they engaged in a national public service.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

BigBand Networks, which has more than 200 customers in North America, Asia and Europe, provides broadband service providers with digital video networking solutions designed to make it easier to distribute, manage and monetize video. HADASIT LAUNCHES JEWISH-ARAB BIOMED INCUBATOR IN GALILEE. In addition to an initial 7.5

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 2, 2011

We have a severe shortage of talented engineers in this country, for example, and science doesn’t seem to garner as much attention & focus in the US as it does in some other countries. Suddenly everybody wants to be an incubator. As a country we need to address this. You know how this ends.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

JANUARY 19, 2015

In corporate America (and in many formal organizations around the globe) improvisation games are sneaking their way into highly structured corporate meetings. It’s your intention and it starts your intuition engine. You’ll probably need to put these worksheets aside and let your thoughts incubate. Do the dance.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Craig Walker, co-founder and CEO of Firespotter Labs, a technology incubator, said it feels unnatural to bestow so much voting power on one executive. Software Development Engineer, Senior-IEB-Commercial Services (795929) Job -. Message Center ( new). Edition Home. ↓ More. Deutschland. en Español. em Português.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Mellie Price (@mellieprice) | Twitter Heather Brunner CEO WPEngine Heather Brunner is one of the most successful tech CEO’s in Austin’s history, recently raising $250 million in funding from Silver Lake for WP Engine, the leading digital experience platform built on Wordpress.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

On a more serious note, Gordon has a laundry list of founder qualities or experiences that will pique his curiosity: “Have a resume I envy and admire; make a significant contribution at a company I am fascinated by; write a great book or make a great game or TV show; [develop] significant software engineering experience and/or education.&#

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

He would know; he’s been backing tech start-ups since 1984, incubating at least one hen house full of millionaires.and probably a few empty ones. Take the Bank of America, once the largest bank in the world, whose signature office tower on California Street was briefly the tallest west of the Mississippi.

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