Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. I also owe a great debt to Kent Beck, whose Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change was my first introduction to this kind of thinking. (So What are the characteristics of a lean startup?

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 27, 2010

Sramana Mitra said not to long ago in Forbes : “I have come to observe that most business school programs have an extensive emphasis on fundraising, especially from venture capitalists, and very little pragmatic understanding of what it really takes to get a venture off the ground. 3) Open source your real estate.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Other smart companies are learning how to use Open Innovation pioneered by Henry Chesbrough who teaches here at EDADE. They can partner with suppliers, co-create with consumers, open-source key technologies, open their application programming interfaces, or run open incubators for customer ideas.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2020

When the shelter in place orders began, Alpha found himself living in a tiny Airbnb with his other co-founders, Having just arrived from the UK to do the start up program, YCombinator. They took an open source approach, inviting thousands of collaborators from around the world to contribute potential solutions.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

ARPA-E joined the program this year, and in the fall we’ll teach a Life Science version of the class at UCSF. While I had open-sourced all my lectures and put them online via Udacity , I was getting requests to teach other educators how teach the class. and all our other tools for educators here. info@kandsranch.com.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2012

A while back I heard a talk by Dave McClure, a long-time angel investor, who also proclaims to be one of the “new breed” of venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, as CEO of 500Startups , which is either a micro-VC seed fund, or a startup incubator, or both. He is going gangbusters, and is now targeting a $50M second round of funding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2011

Recently I heard a talk by Dave McClure, a long-time angel investor, who also proclaims to be one of the “new breed” of venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, as CEO of 500Startups , which is either a micro-VC seed fund, or a startup incubator, or both. For VCs, early-stage means customer revenue is less than $10M. Business accelerator.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

ARPA-E joined the program this year, and in the fall we’ll teach a Life Science version of the class at UCSF. While I had open-sourced all my lectures and put them online via Udacity , I was getting requests to teach other educators how teach the class. and all our other tools for educators here. info@kandsranch.com.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Nearly all have abandoned hope in the "sure thing" and are stepping into what has traditionally been the Angel role of incubating startups. YouTubes Musicians Wanted Program Go. Companies like GrowPublic, Inc. Companies like GrowPublic, Inc. How iPad Magazine Sales Stack Up [REP. 4 Winning Strategies for Social Media.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Nearly all have abandoned hope in the "sure thing" and are stepping into what has traditionally been the Angel role of incubating startups. YouTubes Musicians Wanted Program Go. Companies like GrowPublic, Inc. Companies like GrowPublic, Inc. How iPad Magazine Sales Stack Up [REP. 4 Winning Strategies for Social Media.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Foundups : Michael Trout, from Fukui, Japan, pitched Foundups , which he claims will be a platform for open corporations. He talked about everything from raising funding for pre-seed entrepreneurs to get them to the seed stage, crowd funding, social media marketing and open source. You can't tell what the company does.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

Hacking for Diplomacy is a new course from the Management Science and Engineering department in Stanford’s Engineering school and Stanford’s International Policy Studies program that will be first offered in the Fall of 2016. Hacking for Diplomacy is not a product incubator for a specific technology solution. Real Problems.

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Gust

JULY 8, 2012

A while back I heard a talk by Dave McClure, a long-time angel investor, who also proclaims to be one of the “new breed” of venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, as CEO of 500Startups , which is either a micro-VC seed fund, or a startup incubator, or both. He is going gangbusters, and is now targeting a $50M second round of funding.

Early Stage 177

Early Stage Finance Seed Stage Entrepreneur 177

Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

Hacking for Diplomacy is a new course from the Management Science and Engineering department in Stanford’s Engineering school and Stanford’s International Policy Studies program that will be first offered in the Fall of 2016. Hacking for Diplomacy is not a product incubator for a specific technology solution. Real Problems.

Lean 120

Lean Government Agile Africa 120

mashable.com

AUGUST 31, 2010

YouTubes Musicians Wanted Program Go. work with the world’s leading pharmaceutical, bioscience, and medical device com. How iPad Magazine Sales Stack Up [REP. 4 Winning Strategies for Social Media. View More » Entertainment 6 Free Sites for Creating Your Own Co. Kanye West Will Answer Your Tweets Fo.

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mashable.com

AUGUST 31, 2010

YouTubes Musicians Wanted Program Go. How iPad Magazine Sales Stack Up [REP. 4 Winning Strategies for Social Media. View More » Entertainment 6 Free Sites for Creating Your Own Co. Kanye West Will Answer Your Tweets Fo. Netflix Goes Down (in the Middle of t. Weekend Gaming: "Vanquish" and "Killz.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Together Pete, Joe Felter and I created Hacking for Defense , a nationwide program to teach university students how use Lean methodologies to solve defense and national security problems. Accelerators, hubs, cafes, open-sourcing, crowd-souring, maker spaces, Chief Innovation Officers, etc. Problem 6: How to get started?

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 18, 2014

And I asked him if Peter Thiel had it wrong with his 20 Under 20 program that pays students $100,00 to drop out of college… ReadWrite : You co-founded Splunk as the CEO more than a decade ago in the wake of the dotcom implosion. We weren’t open source, but we appealed to the open source mindset.

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mashable.com

JUNE 8, 2010

YouTubes Musicians Wanted Program Go. How iPad Magazine Sales Stack Up [REP. 4 Winning Strategies for Social Media. View More » Entertainment 6 Free Sites for Creating Your Own Co. Kanye West Will Answer Your Tweets Fo. Netflix Goes Down (in the Middle of t. Weekend Gaming: "Vanquish" and "Killz.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Coworking Spaces - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , September 2, 2010 I've never been much of a fan of incubators. Betaworks is more than an incubator, but they have shown that they can make the incubation model work with projects like bit.ly They called that program Eatsy. Some have made the model work.

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 30, 2012

With advances in cloud computing, open source infrastructure, development tools and general "Lean Start-Up" techniques, entrepreneurs need less capital than ever before. Hence, the rise of angels, super-angels, incubators, accelerators, micro-VCs and VC-led seed programs. And when entrepreneurs' needs change (i.e.,

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 28, 2020

There were some great examples of enabling students in Africa to participate in programs from Australia, which had never happened before. We as educators need to not treat solopreneurs or Main Street businesses as second-class citizens in our classrooms or incubators, or our meetups. Berkeley, the dean of this program.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Language doesnt matter Complex web applications can be built in just about any programming language, and its not really the language that is so important as the frameworks that are available. These are Java (from Sun),NET (from Microsoft), and three Open Source options: PHP, Python and Ruby. framework was built.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2009

The insights on customers and deployment methodologies have been fascinating, and I would like to hear your thoughts on co-founders & their relationships playing in to the other topics (for example, do you have the same 'no lone founders' rule that many of the incubators seem to adhere to?). for Harvard Business Revie.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

If you don’t want to read that post, the summary is: Open source computing drove computing costs down 90%, which spurred innovation in technology. Open cloud led by Amazon with their AWS services drove total operating costs down by 90%. The Blurring of Investment Lines. The Explosion in Early-Stage Innovation.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

I first spent time trying to build it myself leveraging open source tools, applying my skills from a single CS class, and trying to be an autodidactic coder. Come celebrate with us at this joint program organized by BayBrazil, GABA, and SVForum Tech Women. However, I needed to actually build it! New York, New York. Monterey, CA.

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

For three years I worked at Bug Labs (open source hardware company). We not only told everyone what we did, we posted the source code and the blueprints online. Early on the programming was suckage; the electronics was unreliable; and the signal quality was awful; still people bought them. Nobody ever stole our ideas.

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mashable.com

MARCH 24, 2011

Thinking of applying to one (or all) of the summer accelerator/incubator/angel/mentoring programs like TechStars , Joystick Labs , or any of those found on this comprehensive list ? That’s one of the things we might develop during the summer program. We collectively get thousands of submissions, but only 1% are selected.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 19, 2010

Run an accelerator/incubator? Being point on a program like this would certainly be a great challenge and opportunity. None of the NYC deals I've backed at FRC would have considered such programs, because they were very experienced founders or already had fundraising momentum to move forward without the standard 6k deals.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Joshua Baer is the co-founder and CEO of Otherinbox , a prolific angel investor and the director of Capital Factory , Austin’s seed-stage incubator. Open Source Lists. Programming and Web Development Lists. Share on Tumblr email share Share on Tumblr email share. You can follow Joshua on Twitter @joshuabaer. Jobs Lists.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Vaynerchuk also recommends self-funding the incubation process, unless the industry you’re in is about to explode. Flash vs. HTML5: The "Pong" Version 37Signals Creates iPad-Only Web App An Open Source, HTML5 Framework for i. Don’t be forced down, insulted or negotiated into a crappy investment ever.&#

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

He’s a former Dell exec that worked on their startup team with Ingrid Vandervelt, a Capital Factory mentor, and the co-founder of DivInc, Austin’s pre-accelerator program for diverse founders, which is hosted at Capital Factory. In this role, she is responsible for advancing equitable economic growth and financial inclusion around the world.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 3, 2012

Global Warming Has Opened A Huge Mining Opportunity In Greenland – [link]. San Quentin prison has a startup incubator for inmates? Nice article about Kellogg’s Entrepreneur-in-Residence program that crowdSPRING has participated in the last few years – [link]. Has anyone checked the 8th amendment about this?

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 5, 2012

He currently runs marketing at tech incubator QLabs and previously co-founded travel site Wanderfly. Open Source Lists. Programming and Web Development Lists. October 4, 2012 by Cezary Pietrzak. Like Tweet +1 Share Pin It Share. Cezary Pietrzak is a New York-based creative marketer and growth strategist. Jobs Lists.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Today open source software has slashed the cost of software development from millions of dollars to thousands. In addition to super angels, incubators like Y Combinator , TechStars and the 100+ plus others worldwide like them have begun to formalize seed-investing. Finally, venture capital and angel investing is no longer a U.S.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

interactions, widgets, effects Django – high-level Python framework Cappuccino – open source framework for app development Kodingen – cloud development environment, code editor, hosting service, collaboration platform. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 5, 2012

He currently runs marketing at tech incubator QLabs and previously co-founded travel site Wanderfly. Open Source Lists. Programming and Web Development Lists. October 3, 2012 by Cezary Pietrzak. Like Tweet +1 Share Pin It Share. Cezary Pietrzak is a New York-based creative marketer and growth strategist. Jobs Lists.

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