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Is a Venture Studio Right for You?

Steve Blank

There are four main types of venture studios: Tech transfer studios , such as America’s Frontier Fund , work with companies and/or government labs to source ideas and intellectual property. These studios have different metrics than startup studios whose limited partners are private family offices or venture capitalists.

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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

As a reminder, the Dot Com bubble was a five-year period from August 1995 (the Netscape IPO ) when there was a massive wave of experiments on the then-new internet, in commerce, entertainment, nascent social media, and search. Both companies and government agencies struggle with how to deliver innovation at speed.

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Top 15 ESG Startups to Watch in 2024

The Startup Magazine

Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) concepts have been developing since the advocation of equal rights by the working men parties in the 1830s, and pollution control in the mid-1850s — when Chicago pragmatically built the first US sewage system to improve water supply.

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Internet Content Moderation 101

Hunter Walker

Make it a dashboard level metric – If the CEO and her team is looking at content safety metrics alongside usage, revenue and so on, it’ll prove that it matters and it’ll be staffed more appropriately. Did I ever write about creating YouTube’s fetish video policy?

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Corporate Transparency for a Greener Future: The Imperative of Sustainability Reporting

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Sustainability reporting, particularly about environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria, has burgeoned as a fundamental vehicle through which companies can reflect their operations’ social responsibility and commitment to sustainable development practices.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal the Companies They are Starting in 2023

Hearpreneur

3- E-commerce Photo Credit: Carter Seuthe With the launch of 5G internet, I think eCommerce will boom in 2023. 14- Government contracting business Photo Credit: Justin Siken Now is an excellent time to start a government contracting business. Thanks to Michelle Wintersteen, MKW Creative Co. ! #3-

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Don’t Let Investors Conclude Your Startup Is A Hobby

Gust

Even if you are doing the work yourself, you need to document requirements, features, metrics, and milestones. How do you access the Internet, what servers do you need, applications required, databases designed, and backups scheduled? Even the government is watching to see where you fit. Product development process.

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