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boldstart 2018 recap and what’s hot in enterprise 2019

BeyondVC

While developers can now spin up applications faster than ever before, one of the downsides is the complexity of managing these distributed applications and technologies. Year of HQ2 and Distributed Teams: It was a banner year for non-Silicon Valley cities as NYC and Northern Virginia were selected as Amazon’s HQ2.

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Entrepreneurs, not the government, will save Europe’s economy

The Next Web

Dries Buytaert is the co-founder and CTO and Acquia , a venture-backed software company that offers products and services for open source content management system Drupal. While entrepreneurship and startups have spread tremendously in Europe, a lot of aspiring young entrepreneurs leave Europe for the United States.

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The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Education and Corporate Innovation

Steve Blank

It was adopted by the National Science Foundation for commercializing science in the United States. It’s taught at Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia and probably another hundred universities and colleges because I open-sourced the class and trained educators on how to teach it. Distribution channels, brand loyalty, etc.

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Students and Professors Try Open Innovation | Nature Publishing Group

Campus Entrepreneurship

While some entrepreneurs have developed open and crowd sourced businesses (Redhat to Kickstarter) we should expect to see more open innovation and crowd sourcing on campus (beyond technological innovation) and this presents opportunities for entrepreneurs. We are trying an open source accelerator at George Mason.

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Economic Moats: Who Has Them? And How Do You Get One?

ConversionXL

An effective moat doesn’t require Amazon’s distribution network or Microsoft’s monopolistic software strategy. For example, in the United States, freight railroads have a deep moat. The company limits costs through a management and distribution structure that serves multiple stores in a geographic area. Dig a deep moat.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

For more rigorous, bottoms-up sizing exercises I suggest tools such as Statista and the United States Census Bureau (also their North American Industry Classification System database) to help identify more specific data. Some technology vendors are providing options to limit distribution of confidential information from GP reports.

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How I Started, Grew & Sold An E-commerce Business For Quarter Million Dollars ($250,000)

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

These were the very same products that we are used to purchasing in malls and department stores here in the United States of America. The prices of these bottles in China for example (1.7OZ, 3.3OZ, 4.4OZ, doesn’t matter) were almost a third of the prices we are used to paying in the United States of America.

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