Steve Blank
JANUARY 28, 2013
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. His only request was that we keep two of the original program’s goals: 1. What went right?
Steve Blank
JANUARY 28, 2013
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. His only request was that we keep two of the original program’s goals: 1. What went right?
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Feld Thoughts
OCTOBER 15, 2013
When David Cohen and I came up with the idea for the Global Accelerator Network (GAN) in 2010, we counted roughly 100 accelerator programs around the US that were founded following the Techstars model. From that initial outreach, 16 high quality accelerator programs joined us to launch the network. Others are not.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 27, 2011
Company 2 might represent an “ad mediation company” where the company gets paid by ad networks for running ads on publisher websites and the company in turn must pay the publisher 85% of the revenue it collects. They both raised angel / seed money of $1.5 ” You can be profitable while losing money.
Up and Running
MAY 12, 2015
They ended up with a nice pitch, and approximately $300K in seed money.”. He warns that although quality and prize money vary from competition to competition, they can be a great way to practice pitching in a setting designed for getting feedback. Tim advises entrepreneurs to check out this list of competitions.
Up and Running
SEPTEMBER 11, 2013
He is also the founder of Hallspot , a new social networking site exclusively for college students that has raised hundreds of thousands in seed money and will launch on September 27 at Thorne’s alma mater, where more than 6,000 students have pre-registered for the service.
crowdSPRING Blog
APRIL 23, 2018
And Apple is famous for taking existing ideas (wireless networks, media creation, mice, mp3 players, smartphones) and doing them really, really well. As Apple design lead Jonathan Ive said , “It’s very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better.”. The importance of great design for your startup is not a myth.
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