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Why Real Learning is Outside the Building, Not Demo Day

Steve Blank

Over the last three years our Lean LaunchPad / NSF Innovation Corps classes have been teaching hundreds of entrepreneurial teams a year how to build their startups by getting out of the building and testing their hypotheses behind their business model. We had a killer team and all the right skillsets.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Exciting Companies Lined Up For Microsoft Startup Grant Finals

ReadWriteStart

Freshdesk First, Girish Mathrubootham from Chennai, India, pitched Freshdesk , a SaaS company that provides small and medium businesses with on-demand customer support software that offers multi-channel social support. You can read more about Freshdesk on the 1M/1M Incubation Radar today.

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Finance Fridays

Feld Thoughts

At this point we are planning to use a consumer Internet company as an example, but we are also considering using a SaaS-based software company. His focus was to incubate an internal start-up which is built on state-of-the-art technology, novel business model and innovative products.

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Essential Startup Funding Tips from 8 Seasoned Investors

mashable.com

The group seeks out technologies that are complementary to the company’s core operations, including applications, software and infrastructure startups. Vaynerchuk also recommends self-funding the incubation process, unless the industry you’re in is about to explode.

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How To Get Past Buzzwords And Make Better Hires

Transformify

Think of it this way: If all your software engineers are Stanford computer science majors, they’ve all taken classes from the same professors, completed the same problem sets, and been trained to think in much the same ways. He formerly served as a data science lead with Foursquare and with Andreessen Horowitz.

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