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Designing a Corporate Entrepreneurship Program – A Qualcomm Case Study (part 1 of 2)

Steve Blank

He gave my innovation team free reign on designing a new employee innovation program. The design challenge. Our challenge was to design a program that could: Teach participants on how to turn their ideas into fundable experiments. (In His only request was that we keep two of the original program’s goals: 1. What went right?

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Designing a Corporate Entrepreneurship Program – A Qualcomm Case Study (part 1 of 2)

Steve Blank

He gave my innovation team free reign on designing a new employee innovation program. The design challenge. Our challenge was to design a program that could: Teach participants on how to turn their ideas into fundable experiments. (In His only request was that we keep two of the original program’s goals: 1. What went right?

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A Quality Benchmark for Accelerators: The Global Accelerator Network

Feld Thoughts

As with everything new that grows quickly, it’s a chaotic system with lots of innovation, creative destruction, and rapid change and learning that – if done well – is a great example of the power of the Lean Startup approach to entrepreneurship. Provide some sort of seed capital to their founders.

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Am I a Founder? The Adventure of a Lifetime. « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Will there be a lecture on getting seed money in a post crisis world? Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Reply Michael Durwin , on June 12, 2009 at 10:11 am Said: As I embark on my first start-up I’m continuously bolstered by posts like these. Thanks Steve! Blog at WordPress.com.

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Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret

cdixon.org

link] Lean Startups Blog – rants and raves from the startup trenches. The idea has value, but the implementation and design model you follow (customer feedback loop) is where the traction will come from. link] What’s the right amount of seed money to raise? Ideas are worthless!!! tell the world. link] Quora.

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Tiered Valuation Caps

Austin Startup

However, there are circumstances in which founders know there are potential serious milestones on the short-term horizon that would dramatically influence valuation, but they need to close their seed money now. Convertible notes and SAFEs are optimally designed for providing this kind of valuation flexibility. Sounds legit.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

The problem is that many programmers have loads of talent with no product sense and business students have great designs with no way to implement them. Programmers feel exploited when they build out a product that is successful but are reluctant to admit they wouldn’t have been able to design the product themselves.