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8 Ways The Maker Movement Turns Ideas Into Businesses

Startup Professionals Musings

This movement, coupled with free websites and apps, makes it possible for almost any technical person to start a business. In my view as an advisor to new ventures, the Maker Movement is an integral part of a new age of the entrepreneur. Provides networking with cofounders and strategic partners.

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The Magic Midnight Mind Meld

Both Sides of the Table

Or how about the inventor of the Internet? It is called, “ the new rules for the Internet bubble &# and he just nails it. This time on mysterious party bus to nowhere but situated with the CTO & Cofounder of Living Social, Aaron Batalion. You couldn’t help but seeing Uber Pedicabs all around town.

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How to Scale a Venture Capital (or Private Equity) Fund

David Teten

– Build out low-cost force multipliers such as scouts , Advisors, Entrepreneurs in Residence, Venture Partners, and so on. Typically they get cofounder common equity, in addition to the preferred stock that a conventional VC gets. Prehype , Rocket Internet , and numerous others. engineers, designers, business developers).

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How Universities Can Help Students and Alumni Work in the Tech Industry

David Teten

I’ve listed the most common levers that universities use below, with some live examples from Yale: Strong technical departments : Computer Science , Math , Physics. For example, Yale could launch a center focused on applying political science thinking to the governance of major internet businesses (e.g., I wrote a blog post on this.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

Blogs (VC): Antonio Rodriguez [link] – A very technical VC at Matrix partners who can actually code. Reply Quora , on March 12, 2011 at 12:54 am said: What are the free software tools and online services one should leverage for an internet start-up just getting started from an idea?… Thanks for your work.