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A real Customer Advisory Board

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 26, 2009 A real Customer Advisory Board A reader recently asked on a previous post about the technique of having customers periodically produce a “state of the company&# progress report. One example is having a real Customer Advisory Board. It was absolutely worth it.

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Seeking CEO+team for VC-backed startup: Make America Functional Again

David Teten

Our initial test market: We want to make America functional again by helping our users, such as major advocacy organizations and corporations, promote majoritarian-supported policies, e.g., mitigating climate change, strengthening democracy, enforcing ethics in government, promoting national security, and protecting against information warfare. .

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Seeking CEO+team for VC-backed startup: Make America Functional Again

David Teten

These might include, e.g., mitigating climate change, strengthening democracy, enforcing ethics in government, promoting national security, and protecting against information warfare. . For 2 years, I’ve been struggling to think what I can do to help make America functional again, in light of how broken our governance is.

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Do It Right The First Time, Part II: Visit the Doctor or House Call?

Gust

Likewise, founders can benefit from understanding basic characteristics of the overall legal structure, formation and governance documents, rights and responsibilities of team members, etc. Stepping off the soapbox, let’s examine the highest level “To Do” list for a new startup: Formation, Governance and Equity. Newco, Inc.”)

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How to Build a Global Center of Innovation Excellence in Salzburg, Austria

Pascal's View

I recently joined the Advisory Board to Gerhard Blechinger , the Rector of the FachHochschule Salzburg, (the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences) and became a guest lecturer on Entrepreneurship at the University. He published the book Zero to One in 2014.

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Entrepreneurship Week and Europe’s Best Startups 2010

VC Cafe

In the UK, the theme this year is Make a Job, Don’t take a Job and the events enjoy heavy government support. Research conducted by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) UK team in a survey of over 1,000 entrepreneurs shows the following key findings: SUPPORT - 77% want the government to play a key role in supporting entrepreneurs.

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Entrepreneurship Week and Europe’s Best Startups 2010

VC Cafe

In the UK, the theme this year is Make a Job, Don’t take a Job and the events enjoy heavy government support. Research conducted by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) UK team in a survey of over 1,000 entrepreneurs shows the following key findings: SUPPORT - 77% want the government to play a key role in supporting entrepreneurs.