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10,000 Startups – Startup Weekend Next

Steve Blank

Just a crazy idea two years ago, the class is now taught at Stanford , Berkeley, Columbia , Caltech, Princeton and for the National Science Foundation at the University of Michigan and Georgia Tech. We now know how to crack the entrepreneurial code by creating an Entrepreneurship API - a standard language for entrepreneurs.

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Six Rebellious Beliefs That Can Change The Workplace

YoungUpstarts

Known for its joy-making philosophy, Menlo Innovations in Ann Arbor, Michigan, has made Inc. This is due, in part, to the joyful work environment at Menlo. . For example, BambooHR , a software development company based in Utah, has an anti-workaholic policy. magazine’s fastest growing U.S. companies list multiple times.

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A Venture Capital History Perspective From Jack Tankersley

Feld Thoughts

As dollars flowed into the industry, cooperation was replaced by competition, to the detriment of deal flow, due diligence, ability to add value and, of course, returns. Michigan Cottage Cheese: Yoplait Yogurt. “By January 1984, investors had turned away from hardware toward software.” This isn’t true.

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What is a Social Enterprise?

Up and Running

According to the Harvard Business Review, in most U.S. L3Cs were first formed in 2008, and are currently only legal in Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont, and Wyoming, as well as the federal jurisdictions of the Crow Indian Nation of Montana, and the Oglala Sioux Tribe.

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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Computer Software. Media & Marketing. Small Business. More Industries. Accounting. Advertising. Broadcasting & Entertainment. Computer Hardware. Consumer Products. Defense & Aerospace. Financial Services & Insurance. Food & Tobacco. Hospitality. Industrial Goods & Services. Marketing & Strategy. Media Agencies. Metals & Mining. NAME Comcast.

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Episode 3b: Smart Bear Live!

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

At Smart Bear we were selling a code review tool, and if you paid $600 for Perforce, it was very hard for me to charge $600 hundred for an add-on to Perforce that did code review. After you’ve organized all the global ad agencies in the world, then you can go after Enterprise once you’ve got that market down.

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