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Massacre at IBM

Steve Blank

Long before there was the Lean Startup, Business Model Canvas or Customer Development there was a guy in Santa Barbara California who had already figured it out. The core team — a cross-functional team who could make all the business and technical decisions within a set envelop ? We did a quick overview of the product.

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How Black People Leveraged Tech Bigotry to Boss the Blockchain Below the Radar

Austin Startup

By the time Silicon Valley white privilege culture, tech magazines that promote only white faces, Ethereum/Bitcoin fanboys, sellout black tech wannabees and globalists promoting their blockchain consortium get a hold of this article, it’s already too late and the game already ended a while ago.

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ProfessorVC: Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"?

Professor VC

While the flick has gotten rave critical reviews (93% on Flixster), the question of what percentage of the movie is true has also gotten a lot of discussion in the blogosphere. According to the Business Insider, he was actually arrested in a different place and time. This is a good review of the movie and both books.

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ProfessorVC: Why didn't I think of that??

Professor VC

Many entrepreneurial programs feature a business plan competition, which is a great exercise. At SJSU, we also have a business plan competition in the spring, which ideally allows the students to build a viable business model around their NIF projects. How Much Diligence is Due. Steve Bennet. ► 2010.

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ProfessorVC: Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught?

Professor VC

With that in mind, I created a new course at San Jose State last year, the Entrepreneurship Lab (E-Lab). The business environment is much more complex today, and the hopeful entrepreneur need to understand more of the environment in which they will operate. How Much Diligence is Due. ► February. (1).

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ProfessorVC: Is it the Horse or Jockey?

Professor VC

The 6-year firm survival rate was 60% for dead founders and 61% for live founders, while the average Operating Return on Assets was 6% for dead founders vs. 8% for live founders, but neither are statistically significant (Hvilde 15). How Much Diligence is Due. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State.

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Episode 3: A Startup Comic Book Company, How to Find a Mentor, and #BigData – The Bcast

Up and Running

He’s also the chief operating officer of Raidious. Someone tweeted out of San Jose, they did a really amazing review of the book. You can tell they actually read the book, and it was a really positive review. Unless you are a technology company like us, you’re probably not monitoring those things.