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Out of the Ashes - Something Isn't Quite Right

Steve Blank

I was between my 7th and 8th and final startup; licking my wounds from Rocket Science, the company I had cratered as my first and last attempt as a startup CEO. I was consulting for the two venture capital firms who between them put $12 million into my last failed startup. (My It was a long way from Ellis Island.)

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RenewData Unveils eDiscovery Acceleration Platform

Austin Startup

RenewData , a leading provider of services for the discovery, archiving, review and governance of Electronically Stored Information (ESI), today announced its eDiscovery Acceleration Platform designed to provide clients a solution that addresses the rising costs of eDiscovery and stringent litigation deadlines.

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Video update on the Startup Visa Act

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, April 29, 2010 Video update on the Startup Visa Act The Startup Visa Act continues to gain momentum on Capitol Hill, thanks to grassroots support of all of you. They feature two of the rock stars of the Startup Visa team, Shervin and Brad, looking like, well, rock stars.

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Customer Development Manifesto: Market Type (part 4) « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

In future posts I’ll describe how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. Not All Startups Are Alike There’s an urban legend that Eskimos-Aleuts have more words to describe snow than other cultures.

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HBS Student Business Plan Contest Finalists

Altgate

Birchbox ChickRx CleverBootz eight1six EverTrue FashionStake Friends For Sport OsComp Palliative Care of America RelayRides SIRTAP Therapeutics (watch the video to see their pitch at MIT) Smarter Hearing I found links to a few of the companies, but not all. Apparently there are 12 semifinalists (listed below). Bookmark the permalink.

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If I Told You I'd Have to Kill You: The Story Behind “The Secret.

Steve Blank

Do you mean the Culinary Institute of America? And you’d like me to do my talk on Customer Development and startups?” “No, we’re the other CIA.” Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. So I gave my “ The Secret History of Silicon Valley ” talk as the keynote to the CIA’s venture capital conference.

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@altgate » Blog Archive » Obama Speech on Clean Energy at MIT

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He then simultaneously held out a carrot and stick saying that the Pentagon had declared America’s dependence on foreign oil a security risk and that there was a $2 trillion potential market in wind energy over the next two decades (Massachusetts just won some federal grant money to build a wind blade test facility).