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Designing a Corporate Entrepreneurship Program – A Qualcomm Case Study (part 1 of 2)

Steve Blank

In 2006, as a new employee of the Fortune 100 provider of wireless technology and services, San Diego’s Qualcomm , I volunteered to salvage a fledging idea management system (fancy term for an online suggestion box) by turning into a comprehensive corporate entrepreneurship program. . ———-. The origin. The design challenge.

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Designing a Corporate Entrepreneurship Program – A Qualcomm Case Study (part 1 of 2)

Steve Blank

In 2006, as a new employee of the Fortune 100 provider of wireless technology and services, San Diego’s Qualcomm , I volunteered to salvage a fledging idea management system (fancy term for an online suggestion box) by turning into a comprehensive corporate entrepreneurship program. . ———-. The origin. The design challenge.

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A Quality Benchmark for Accelerators: The Global Accelerator Network

Feld Thoughts

As with everything new that grows quickly, it’s a chaotic system with lots of innovation, creative destruction, and rapid change and learning that – if done well – is a great example of the power of the Lean Startup approach to entrepreneurship. Have a strong management team who are typically proven entrepreneurs.

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A conversation with Scott Kupor of Andreessen Horowitz, author and speaker at Lean Startup Conference 2019

Startup Lessons Learned

Scott Kupor is the managing partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he’s responsible for all operational aspects of running the firm. He's been with the firm since its inception in 2009 and has overseen its rapid growth, from three employees to 150+ and from $300 million in assets under management to more than $10 billion.

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Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret

cdixon.org

link] Lean Startups Blog – rants and raves from the startup trenches. link] What’s the right amount of seed money to raise? link] 200+ Startup Questions Distilled Down To Five | Startup Lean. [.] link] 23 Startup Management Practices Articles For Startup Leaders | TechStartHub. [.] Ideas are worthless!!!

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Figuring Out FourSquare

Seeing Both Sides

At the same time, the foursquare team was incredibly skilled at applying lean start-up best practices, specifically: Product-obsessed founders : both Dennis and Naveen were consumed with the product. million in its series A financing and kept the burn rate at less than $100k per month to make he money last. Monetization.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

I feel like I am winning the race because my paycheck from day job comes in every 2weeks and I am making money from my side projects. Maybe you can be the project manager and team up with someone else who is a prgrammer. Don’t use all your resources (time, energy and money) only to find that the product is a dud.