Steve Blank

AUGUST 23, 2016

A lot of people, especially in the Midwest, will spend their time thinking too small. They’re a creature of their habit and habitat, in looking at potential investors and market opportunities. If you see a need or problem and you think you can solve it, you don’t want that destiny to belong to someone else. You have to disprove the naysayers. You sometimes get a chip on your shoulder and say, “You know what?

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 23, 2016

The latest edition of the Global Entrepreneur Report found that more millennials than ever are starting their own businesses. This equals more than double the number of businesses their baby boomer grandparents were starting. Many factors cater to the rise of new businesses as millennials come to age, and they all work together to create an ideal environment for entrepreneurs.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 23, 2016

A lot of people, especially in the Midwest, will spend their time thinking too small. They’re a creature of their habit and habitat, in looking at potential investors and market opportunities. If you see a need or problem and you think you can solve it, you don’t want that destiny to belong to someone else. You have to disprove the naysayers. You sometimes get a chip on your shoulder and say, “You know what?

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 23, 2016

by Elliot Tomaeno, founder of ASTRSK. You may be located in a city that never sleeps, but that doesn’t mean you and your startup should follow suit. I know: That’s easier said than done. With smartphones providing around-the-clock access to email, it’s no wonder work-life balance is becoming more and more elusive with every passing year. Our professional lives literally tag along with us everywhere we go.

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Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 23, 2016

Guest post by Jennifer Maerz, Contributing Editor of Lean Startup Co. Lean Startup Week has it all: keynote talks, hands-on workshops, networking opportunities and lively flashes of inspiration from our extended community in the form of Ignite Talks. Yup, our Ignite Talks are back because you all love filling your heads with new ideas over cocktails—and apparently dozens of savvy founders, intrapreneurs, city planners, retailers, and consultants are just dying to become performers with five minu

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The Next Web

AUGUST 23, 2016

As our world gets more and more connected, consumers and businesses alike must think fast about how they protect important information. In particular, there’s a burden on businesses that work in and around the Internet of Things (IoT) to ensure that they’re serving their customers’ best interests by taking every measure to protect sensitive information.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 23, 2016

I’m in Minneapolis with my partner Seth. We had a meeting at Best Buy headquarters, met with a gang from the Mayo Clinic who drove up from Rochester, spent the afternoon at the Techstars Retail Accelerator which is at Target headquarters, and had dinner with Revolar. We are at the Techstars Retail Accelerator again today, then at Leadpages for a board meeting, and wrapping up with an internal Target event and an external startup community event put on by Beta.MN.

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SiliconHills

AUGUST 23, 2016

By TIM GREEN Special Contributor to Silicon Hills News In July, after several years of preparation and construction, the Dell Medical School started instruction with its first class of students. The school, students and the Central Texas Community are walking hand-in-hand not only for a medical education, but to change how health care and medicine […] The post Dell Medical School: a Catalyst for Austin Startups appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Mike Michalowicz

AUGUST 23, 2016

There is a lot of talk about early adopters, those risk taking customers who are the first to try out your product. But what about the early adapters? They are the folks who figure out practical uses for your product, and how it can truly be used, sold and expanded. Gaining early adopters is important. Learning from early adapters is critical.

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YFS Magazine

AUGUST 23, 2016

If your startup seems to have little connection with the IoT, it may be time to take a step back and reconsider the opportunities.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 23, 2016

Ah, college. Those were the days, weren’t they? Our first real taste of freedom. New friends. New Experiences. More down time than we could appreciate in the moment. And oh, the parties. The glorious, glorious parties. I’m not talking about the keggers at the local frat house or the regularly scheduled Friday night beer pong. I’m talking about the themed parties.

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YFS Magazine

AUGUST 23, 2016

Leading productive (and short) meetings is a goal most people aim for, yet they don't just happen.

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Jeff Hilimire

AUGUST 23, 2016

Mike Popowski , CEO of Dagger , sent me this Jim Carrey commencement address a few weeks back. And I was surprised by how powerful it was. Turns out the guy who made us laugh by doing things like this and this actually has a serious side. It’s about 25 minutes long, so maybe listen to it while you’re driving (but don’t watch the screen!

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Up and Running

AUGUST 23, 2016

In 2003, Matthew Kinsman was traveling around the world and found himself in Hong Kong. He needed a job, but breaking into the job market was tough. “I had a lot of requests for freelance work,” Kinsman says, “so I decided to set up a branding and marketing business in Hong Kong.”. Thirteen years later, Kinsman is a veteran of the industry and a thought leader advocating in Forbes for an agile approach.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 23, 2016

By Justin E. Crawford, author of “ Live Free or DIY: How to Get More Customers, Increase Profits, and Achieve Work-life Balance “ Starting a business requires a serious work ethic — but sometimes that’s what holds the business back. That must sound counterintuitive to most people since entrepreneurs are smart and work hard by their nature.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 23, 2016

Do a quick Google search for “A/B testing mistakes,” and you’ll find a good amount of articles. Common on those lists is the oft-repeated advice that you should “not make more than one change per test.”. As it turns out, like much of the advice in the conversion optimization world, it’s not so simple. For most websites, “change only one thing per test” is pretty bad advice.

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