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Life Science Startups Rising in the UK

Steve Blank

Stephen Chambers spent 22 years in some of the most innovative companies in life science as the director of gene expression and then as a co-founder of his own company. Stephen and SynbiCITE , just launched the world’s first Lean LaunchPad for Synthetic Biology program. Lean LaunchPad to Accelerate Commercialization.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: Akamai

Seeing Both Sides

The Lean Start-Up movement, as exemplified in Eric Ries' book The Lean Start-Up, has appropriately focused a great deal of attention on the hard decisions and techniques required to create a company from nothing. I have been thinking lately about how hard it is to scale start-ups. The first one I’ll focus on is Akamai. Founding Akamai.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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Harvard professor Noam Wasserman and WSJ small-business editor Vanessa OConnell took reader questions about avoiding start-up pitfalls on Sept. Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., Mr. Dreymann moved his family from Israel in 2004 after co-founding Goodmail in Mountain View, Calif., Massachusetts.