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Why The Government is Isn’t a Bigger Version of a Startup

Steve Blank

Today, every government agency, service branch, and combatant command is adopting innovation activities (hackathons, design thinking classes, innovation workshops, et al.) In some agencies, large contractors seem to “own” sections, offices, organizations, or programs.

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In Boston, a School to Learn How to Work at a Startup

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The Boston Startup School , founded at TechStars Boston (see For TechStars Boston, Life Beyond the Pitch ), is creating a program that will give aspiring entrepreneurs and others all the tools they will need to work at a startup. To a certain extent, Boston Startup School is a feeder program for students into TechStars companies.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: How Do You Catalyze A Region's Entrepreneurship?

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First up, Manik Kinra from Bangalore, India, pitched Jade Magnet , a crowd sourcing platform for creative services like logo design, website development, animation, video production, etc. They will also share how they are using the 1M/1M program in that journey. Let's look at today's presenters. Jade Magnet. About Sramana Mitra.

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It’s Back & Better Than Ever! Announcing NextView’s Everyday Economy Virtual Accelerator

View from Seed

We’re running our new and improved accelerator program back, we’re doubling our offering and raising the valuation cap (hello $400K) , and we’d love for you and your team to apply. Why we started the program in the first place. We chatted with some NextView founders to get a sense of how this distilled design worked for their teams.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Spotlight on Latin and Central America

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And over time, I envision that eco-system after eco-system around the world would learn how to use this program to do effective and precise entrepreneurship development, not spray and pray, which is largely what goes on today, with huge amount of resources being wasted. We have done that in 1M/1M. Words To Live By.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 1M/1M Announces Partnership With TiE Chennai

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We also had Ajit Narayanan present AVAZ , designed by Invention Labs, a neat learning and communication product that helps people with disabilities such as cerebral palsy, autism, mental retardation, and speech disorders to communicate. The majority of the discussion was about go-to-market strategy, channels and regulatory issues. Discuss.

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What is a Social Enterprise?

Up and Running

“Our best chance to make the world better is to agree that the choice among corporate structures should be made entirely in service of social impact,” says Rich Leimsider, the Vice President of Fellowship Programs at Echoing Green, a nonprofit that invests with social entrepreneurs. that social enterprises can take.