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10 College Business Incubators We’re Most Excited About

YoungUpstarts

Even students who aren’t in Entrepreneurship Hall can join other innovators at Rochester, in the Center for Student Innovation lab where they can tinker with new ideas, creating physical models and getting advice for their next steps from advisors and even other student participants. Boston University Business Incubation.

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17 Venture Capital Blogs You Should Be Reading

Up and Running

Bill Gurley of Benchmark Capital doesn’t publish frequently, but his essays on market trends and Benchmark portfolio companies are a window into how VCs view the world and the kinds of business models that they find most interesting. Andrew Parker is a VC with Spark Capital in Boston. Follow Bill on Twitter @billgurley.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

Paring down products, target customers, business models etc takes courage, but it must be done to have any chance of success. Eric, As you touch on, the lean venture has been the basic model employed by entrepreneurs throughout history until the past 12 years or so when venturing became institutionalized. Amazon PostRank

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Back to School Blog: An Open Letter to Boston-Area Students

Seeing Both Sides

(Warning:   the following blog post will seem parochial for all readers outside of the Boston area. Dear Boston-area student, Welcome (back) to the Top City of the Global Innovation Economy ! DART Boston – The start-up game can be a lonely one.   DART Boston. Look, there’s a reason Boston.

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Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010

SoCal CTO

How-to learn about angel/vc term sheets - Gabriel Weinberg , June 28, 2010 I think every startup entrepreneur (and angel investor) should have a good understanding of financing term sheets. It sounds like Angel Boot Camp rocked. You can follow us all on twitter via the new hacker-angels list. Delegate and automate.

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Announcing NextView Operator Guilds

View from Seed

For this reason, we’ve partnered with Guild members who have experience across different kinds of customers, business models, and distribution channels. Jessica is VP, Marketing at Notarize and Founder of Girl Capital, a network for aspiring female angel investors. Jared holds a B.A. Back to Top). Back to Top).

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Learn From the 5 Core Principles of Angel Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

If your startup is looking for an Angel investor, does it makes sense to present your plan to flocks of Angels, and assume that at least one will swoop down and scoop you up? In reality, hitting large numbers of Angels in multiple locations with a generic pitch is one of the least productive approaches. Marty Zwilling.