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Why Real Learning is Outside the Building, Not Demo Day

Steve Blank

While our teams have mentors, socialize a lot and give great demos, the goal of our class final presentations is “ Lessons Learned ” – about product/market fit, pricing, acquisition/activation costs, pricing, partners, etc. We had a killer team and all the right skillsets.

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3 Reasons to Benefit from the Coming Wave of 5G

The Startup Magazine

Speakers and partners of Samsung, AT&T, Verizon, and other world-leading companies came up with the services and products which will support the new technology and are to be released in 2019. Also, they can be partners for customers by means of supporting them through continuous technical innovation and industry cooperation.

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Scaling Techstars Horizontally

Feld Thoughts

If you are a software engineer, you probably get this instinctively. However, for the past eight years, my partners and I at Foundry Group haven’t once scaled vertically (we haven’t added any partners since 2007 when we started) until we added Lindel Eakman as part of Foundry Group Next.

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20 Entrepreneurs Share Their Business Goals for 2019

Hearpreneur

4- Partner and create books. Find (at least) three institutional partners who will use us. Have potential partners reach out to us. Our business is all about social media data analysis, and the amount of that data almost doubles each year! With technology and social media we are always on today 24/7. 8- Two goals

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Awesome Austin Tech Events, May 8–15

Austin Startup

Some of the most interesting events in Austin for the week of May 8 through May 14 are as follows: Mon, May 8 thru Thurs, May 11: OSCON OSCON brings the software engineering and developer community together to explore what’s new and useful in open source languages, tools, and techniques. At Google Fiber at 6:30 pm.

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What Makes a Successful Startup Community? Is it Possible to Build One Where You Live?

Both Sides of the Table

Eric Paley , managing partner at Founder Collective , told me that they had implemented a city-wide program in Boston to help local university students get internships at local tech startups. It also has a built-in advantage in telling the world how awesome it’s doing – it’s the center of the media world.

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We Flew To SXSW So You Don’t Have To

Austin Startup

Staying ahead of the curve in a competitive world Written by: Farouk Dossa , Senior Account Executive SXSW is a film, interactive media, and music festival and conference held in Austin, Texas that draws thousands of people from all over the world. Working with partners who understand this can help accomplish this goal more rapidly.

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