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Amsterdam’s Rockstart Accelerator Sees Good First Year, Announces 2nd Edition

YoungUpstarts

Of the ten startups in the inaugural 2012 class, four have raised follow-on funding to date, and one even reached the break-even point and expanded to Silicon Valley. ” Applications for the second year of the Rockstart Accelerator program are open now through January 20, 2013.

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Lessons Learned: Where did Silicon Valley come from?

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, November 11, 2008 Where did Silicon Valley come from? Among those: plentiful financing and nerds , a culture that celebrates both failure and success, and an ethos of openness and sharing. Sturgeons "How Silicon Valley Came to Be" and believe that Federal Telegraph is a better origin point.

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Boston Tech Community (Fall 2013 Edition)

Rob Go

Lean Startup Circle Boston – Meetup dedicated to the lean startup and customer development methodology. Not Boston focused, but definitely follow his reports of PE and VC financings and the state of the venture market. @danprimack. Belmont Technologies – CAD in the Cloud (backed by Northbridge and NEA).

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Indian Company Plugs Gap In Google's Enterprise Solution

ReadWriteStart

As you know, the Google productivity apps portfolio is getting very good traction within enterprises, and through our Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing series , we've heard from various CIOs who are moving from Lotus Notes or Microsoft Exchange to Google's Office suite. One of the primary drivers of the switch is cost. Enter OrangeScape.

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Founders and dysfunctional families « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

It was too loud to talk so I just watched the steel pour through the clouds of soot backlit by the blinding bright liquid metal. And as I stared through the billowing clouds of soot flashing between black and white took on fantastical shapes as tiny figures on the factory floor scurried around the bucket. Let me know what you think.

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Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

SoCal CTO

Storm Clouds - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , November 12, 2010 We have enjoyed an amazing run in the web startup and investing space over the past five or six years. Finance, IT, Legal). Build Your Own Silicon Valley? This should not deter you. Your First Iteration of an Idea Will Be Wrong. What went wrong?

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When Big Companies Are Dead But Don’t Know It

Steve Blank

Even though the company was in Silicon Valley, he ran it like it was in Kansas: no frills, no hype, no crazy expenditures, just year after year of increasing revenue and profits. Filed under: Customer Development , Durant versus Sloan: Startups Verus Companies. More on this in another post.). Distracted.