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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Weeks 8 and 9

Steve Blank

The founder of this 1964 Silicon Valley startup was Bill Perry. His work at ESL made him one of the 10 founders of National Reconnaissance. If you’ve been reading along so far, you know that this class is not an extended hackathon nor is it a 10-week long incubator. The Left side of the Canvas.

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

From there, I became the first non-founder employee at an e-commerce startup called BITSource, which was the first electronic software distributor delivering electronic volume software licenses to corporations. I know you are still in stealth, but what can you tell us. Earlier this year I founded a new startup called KlickFu.

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Lean Startup fbFund wrap-up

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, July 3, 2009 Lean Startup fbFund wrap-up Last week I had a real blast meeting with the companies at the fbFund incubator at Palo Alto. The Lean Startup fbFund Edition View more documents from Eric Ries. We tend to equate startup success with making money, but that is a poor choice.

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How to Evaluate an Offer from a Startup Incubator

The Startup Lawyer

Great news — your startup just got accepted to an incubator! But before your startup signs up and cashes that $[XX,000] check, your startup’s co-founders should sit down and evaluate the incubator’s offer. The “revised for the cash investment only&# pre-money valuation is $600,000. (2)

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Putting yourself out there! (part 2)

Austin Startup

I was to be the alternate so if any of the other 3 startups pitching couldn’t present, then I would take their spot. Moderator Matt with 4 relieved Founders Weekly 5 am Skype calls began and I’d jump online blurry-eyed to see a bunch of smiling faces who’d already put in big work days. Sprung in stealth mode!

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You should be able to explain your startup in one sentence

The Next Web

Here’s a pro tip that’s extremely obvious, but often completely ignored by entrepreneurs everywhere: You should be able to explain your startup in one sentence. When it comes to as finding the perfect words to say while crafting your short and sweet pitch, this is the second way most startups and PR firms end up doing it wrong.

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Don’t Jump Too Soon: How To Properly Pace Business Growth

YoungUpstarts

by Brent Freeman , co-founder and president of Stealth Venture Labs. Startups that successfully scale understand they can’t just throw warm bodies at their problems — they often need to recreate processes that got them to where they are today. Despite what many entrepreneurs may think, know this: Not all growth is good growth.