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Visit to Case Foundation and Startup America

David Teten

On February 16, I visited Washington, DC, where I attended an HBS Club of DC lunch on the Case Foundation and Startup America. They do that by aggregating America’s startups, providing them with pro bono services, and promoting regional ecosystem development. Aggregate America’s startups. in aggregate commitments.

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New San Diego VC Firm Emerges as ‘The Moneyball of Venture Capital’ | Xconomy

www.xconomy.com

of Washington. Amazingly, nobody has aggregated this data before,” says Coats, who was previously a managing partner at San Diego’s Hamilton Bioventures. After beginning their fund-raising efforts in 2007, the firm was ready to close in the fall of 2008—when the financial crisis hit Wall Street. © 2007-2012, Xconomy, Inc.

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Lean startup tools for Rails apps

www.subelsky.com

Mike Subelskys Blog Wednesday, November 11, 2009 Lean startup tools for Rails apps A few months ago I was invited to dinner with the Geeks on a Plane crew when they stopped in Washington, and had the opportunity to meet one of my heroes, Eric Ries , author of the Startup Lessons Learned blog.

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ProfessorVC: Touched by an Angel

Professor VC

While currently free to angel groups, their business model revolves around aggregating the angel investment data. Speaking of angel investment data, the Kauffman Foundation funded a paper on Returns to Angel Investors in Groups written by Robert Wiltbank at Willamette University and Warren Boeker at University of Washington.

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Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium

Startup Lessons Learned

SlideShare, founded in 2007, started experimenting with MVPs and A/B testing this year. SlideShare, founded in 2007, started experimenting with MVPs and A/B testing this year. If your company is using minimum viable product , you’ve probably said the same thing yourself. What prompted the process change?