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I-Corps @ NIH – Pivoting the Curriculum

Steve Blank

Today the National Institutes of Health announced their I-Corps @ NIH program. This lecture order was embedded in the Udacity Lectures , the syllabi and educators guide I open-sourced. The National Institutes of Health has adopted our class for its I-Corps @ NIH program starting this October. Lessons Learned.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

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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Hacking Innovation Education in New York

This is going to be BIG.

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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Stealth Mode Startup

www.frozennorth.org

One of the cofounders has been active on a mailing list for Asterisk , an open-source Linux-based PBX. They were at a tradeshow for speech recognition technology and IP-based call centers. * This last point is intriguing since, as my VP of Development puts it, "Perl is the duct tape of programming languages."

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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

In the mid-1990s, a good friend of mine, Gene Kim (founder of Tripwire and author of When IT Fails: A Business Novel ) and I were in graduate school together in the Computer Science program at the University of Arizona. I wrote an article for the IEEE Spectrum called The Future of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence is Open.

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PBS Newshour on Accelerators

Feld Thoughts

This makes me happy as part of our goal when we started TechStars was to “open-source” the mentor driven accelerator process. PBS Newshour has a neat eight minute segment on accelerators. TechStars is featured, along with several others. The punch line from the interview is in the first 30 seconds.

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Spectacles and $SNAP’s $20B Valuation

Austin Startup

Although they’ll likely fork Android, which is open source, for basic OS components, Snap doesn’t have anywhere near the level of cloud services footprint that Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook do. Snap is not only out-resourced, but they must also play catch up.