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Build Predictable Startup Models by Forming an Agency

ReadWriteStart

Startup studios continue to grow in popularity as incubators for new businesses. Forming a digital agency that performs work for clients in addition to incubating startups provides a host of advantages compared to a singularly-focused startup studio. These can then be repeated and improved on with each successive startup.

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International Student Success in Tech – A CTO’s Journey

The Startup Magazine

When he was 21, he came to America to further his education and quickly earned two Masters of Science degrees – the first in Computer Science and the second in Software Engineering. In 2013, ITU funded Kranthi’s proposal for what is now known as the Education Management System (EMS). Looking to Solve Problems.

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Why Real Learning is Outside the Building, Not Demo Day

Steve Blank

We think teaching teams a formal methodology around the Lean Framework (Business Model design, Customer Development and Agile Engineering) is a natural evolution of how successful incubators/accelerators will build startups. Here’s the story of one such team; Jonathan Wylie, Lakshmi Shivalingaiah and the Evoke team.

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Middle-East-Meets-West Provides An Edge For B2B Tech Companies

YoungUpstarts

by Melissa Lincoln, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Leadspace. A technical office in Israel enables tech companies to find and hire engineers and data scientists with meaningful, real world experience. In the US, most software engineers enter the workforce following college.

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May Business Angels Spread Their Wings Over Kenya?

Transformify

The capital of Kenya, Nairobi, is a vibrant city offering various resources for young start – ups, including accelerator 88MPH and incubator i-Hub. Here are a few success stories of business angels, investors and managers who dared to invest their time and cash ( source: [link]. Nikolai Barnwell Program Manager Nairobi at 88MPH.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Exciting Companies Lined Up For Microsoft Startup Grant Finals

ReadWriteStart

Small and medium size business owners can set up online customer support platforms that combine the backend help desk system used by agents (ticketing, knowledge management) with an online customer portal (self service, forums, idea management, voting, etc) on the front end. To learn more, you can check out some of the videos here.

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Finance Fridays

Feld Thoughts

In the mean time, please meet the Finance Fridays team: Jonathan Wolter has been a lead consultant and software engineer at ThoughtWorks working for clients in Silicon Valley, Texas, Chicago, and India. I love working with and mentoring students, and am especially thrilled when they proactively reach out to me.

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