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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: New Assessment Tool For Entrepreneurs

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Anupam Rajey from Lucknow, India, presented Acelerar Technologies , an outsourced accounting services BPO project from India. I asked him to review the TrueCFO project in my Vision India 2020 book. partners to help bring his product to market. Anupam has serious segmentation issues. Discuss.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. The founders, LPs, and venture partners have a long history in local startup ecosystems in the Southeast including LaunchTN , The Company Lab , CoStarters , and several other regional funds and resources. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

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Innovation Outposts and The Evolution of Corporate R&D

Steve Blank

Evangelos has spent the last 15 years as a Venture Capitalist, first at Apax Partners and later at Trident Capital. The last quarter of the 19 th century, what Perez calls the Age of Steel and Heavy Engineering, saw the growth of America’s first national corporations in railroads, steel, telegraph, meatpacking, and industrial equipment.

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Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Check Out Stanzr

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However, the mistake Said has made is to go "spray and pray" and build numerous different verticals without really fleshing out the business strategy for any of them. Today, instead of going niche and focused, he and his partners are going broader, even, and planning to burn even more money. PTA Portals. Discuss.

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Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Since there was very little documentation my time was split between the design engineers who built the system and the test and deployment team getting the system ready to go overseas. After I was done teaching each the day, I continued to write the operations manuals and work with the test engineers. (I Are You Single? Sign me up.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Top 10 Vertical and Social Web Trends For The Decade

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Drawing on traditions in the Latin American community, Julie and her partner are bringing to market a very specific product to address a very specific pain, and I believe she can build a very successful e-commerce business based on this idea. Photo by yirsh. Discuss.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part X: Stanford Crosses the.

Steve Blank

In 1955, the pretense of keeping unclassified and classified work separate imposed too much of an administrative overhead and Stanford merged the Applied Electronics Lab and the Electronics Research Laboratory into the Systems Engineering Lab. The Navy informs Terman that, “money was not a problem but time was.”