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Innovating Municipal Government Culture

Steve Blank

Widder is the Vice President of Innovation and holds the Steve Blank Innovation Chair at Philadelphia University. He’s helping city government in Philadelphia become more innovative by applying Lean startup methods and Philadelphia University’s innovation curriculum. Building a Government Innovation Curriculum.

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"The Startup Way" is Headed to London

Startup Lessons Learned

“A remarkably useful playbook that every business, government, and nonprofit needs to ignite the spark of innovation and fuel the fire of change.” From New York, Philadelphia, and Boston to Los Angeles and San Francisco, entrepreneurs came out to share their enthusiasm -- you really are everywhere.

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Two Weeks until "The Startup Way"

Startup Lessons Learned

If The Startup Way can transform the federal government — and it has — it can transform your company. I can't wait to get out on the road with The Startup Way and talk to you about the methods and principles of modern management. Here’s the current list of my planned stops. If your city is on the list, come by and say hello!

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Announcing our summer intern class

David Teten

Since then, he has co-written several business plans with fellow classmates and recently served as team leader on a Wharton Field Challenge consulting project for PhillyCarShare, a Philadelphia-based car-sharing startup. Prior to joining ff Venture Capital, Franklin was a summer analyst at J.P.

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Coolest Mobile Business Ideas To Consider as a Career

Women Entrepreneurs Can

The popularity of food trucks made it possible for entrepreneur Marti Lieberman to sell her killer mac and cheese on the streets of Philadelphia after just two years out of college. We hunted around to find you some inspiration and decided that these are the coolest mobile business ideas to consider. Food Truck.

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How do I find a developer to help me with my idea?

www.scottporad.com

Mike, a entrepreneur from Philadelphia, wrote to me with a brief summary of a new business idea he’s working on, and then posed three questions to me about finding a programmer to help him develop the idea. If I were in Mike’s shoes, I would start by talking to people in the Philadelphia Startup community.

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How To Lose Fat And Gain Muscle With Venture Capital

David Teten

At the American Society for Cell Biology Conference last month in Philadelphia, they described their approach as emulating venture capital by maximizing investigator productivity and investing in a portfolio of strong investigators. Nguyen observes that the NIH is taking note of some issues with misallocation of funding incentives.