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Seth Sternberg – Meebo

Both Sides of the Table

He grew up in Connecticut attended Yale undergrad and worked for IBM after graduation doing M&A, strategy and venture capital. Although both parents are educators, his father a professor and his mother the Commissioner of Education in Connecticut, they did not teach him business. What is your mobile strategy?

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Incubators Are Reaching Out To 1M/1M

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Next, Douglas Villalobos from Costa Rica pitched GeoInvenio, a mobile application development platform. In addition, I asked him to do a competitive analysis on the pricing models of the various mobile app platforms and come back to me with both sets of market data, namely, customer research and competitive analysis. GeoInvenio.

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The National Science Foundation Innovation Corps – What America Does Best

Steve Blank

63 scientists and engineers in 21 teams made ~ 2,000 customer calls in 10 weeks , turning laboratory ideas into formidable startups. And to help teach these many teams, the NSF will recruit other universities that have engineering entrepreneurship programs to become part of the Innovation Corps network. Congressman Lipinski Gets It.

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29 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

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Nobody was leveraging digital, e-commerce or mobile. How the design and structure of the website played a role in usability as well as search engine rankings, working with the outreach team to create great content that would help build valuable links, making sure emails matched the style of the optimized landing pages, and so much more.

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

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which makes a mobile app that rewards shoppers for creating a personal shopping mall and following their favorite stores. Engineering & Accounting Svcs. Connecticut. Connecticut. David Cowan of Bessemer Venture Partners has stuck with Mr. Dreymann. Amusement & Recreation. Auto Repair, Parts & Services.

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Finding Your Co-Founders

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If you’re a business major – go check out the Engineering Society’s monthly meeting. One’s a PM and the other’s an engineer. In my case, I grew up in Connecticut and spent a fair amount of time in New York – all the while trying to start companies, relatively unsuccessfully.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

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