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Doubling Down On a Good Thing: The National Science Foundation’s I-Corps Lite

Steve Blank

I’ve known Edmund Pendleton from the University of Maryland as the Director of the D.C. National Science Foundation (NSF) I-Corps Node (a collaboration among the University of Maryland, Virginia Tech, George Washington, and Johns Hopkins). startups that don’t fit whatever’s hot in venture capital. Eleven U.S.

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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

17, on “How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology”. The first panel will focus on public markets and will discuss the use and effectiveness of social media tools and data mining technologies in harnessing the wisdom of crowds to generate investment ideas. Moderator: Robert Savage, CEO, Track.com.

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The Coming Zombie Startup Apocalypse

This is going to be BIG.

A paper by two University of Maryland researchers who arrived at that number concluded the following: ".Observed Because most internet business concepts were not capable of productively employing tens of millions of dollars of venture capital does not mean they were bad ideas."

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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SIGNIFICANCE PROMINENT. --> The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail. An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. The National Venture Capital Association estimates that 25% to 30% of venture-backed businesses fail.

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How to Make the Perfect Startup Pitch

The Startup Magazine

Foursquare : “Decks don’t have to be super formal ,” Dennis Crowley, co-founder of technology company Foursquare, told Business Insider. Crew : “Moving our traction slide from the middle of our presentation to the beginning, made a huge impact for our story ,” said Mikael Cho, CEO of technology company Crew. “We

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Student Startup Offers Quora Like Platform for Profs and Students | The Chronicle of Higher Education

Campus Entrepreneurship

Sankar, who is 31, was inspired to create the service based on her own experience as an undergraduate in India, where she studied at the highly selective Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur. million last year from the venture-capital firm Sequoia Capital, and raised an additional $6-million from investors in November.

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Kauffman Foundation Awards 15 Dissertation Fellowships | Entrepreneurship Research

Campus Entrepreneurship

The 2012 fellowship recipients, along with their university affiliations and the titles of their dissertations, are: Mabel Botelho Abraham, Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Gendered Networks or Gendered Networking? Gilje, Boston College “Does Local Access to Finance Matter?: Evidence from U.S.