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Conference Notes on Sourcing Deal Flow & Developing New Business for Private Equity

David Teten

Deal aggregation websites Increasing in popularity, trying to increase market efficiency. Teten question: What will the impact be of deal aggregating websites (Axialmarket, MergerID, PE-Nexus, PEGBASE, CapitalSphere, DealMarket, BizBuySell,) on the investment banking industry? Intermediaries. Join the right clubs.

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A New Way to Teach Entrepreneurship – The Lean LaunchPad at Stanford: Class 1

Steve Blank

By aggregating user-generated speed and location data, Blink will provide instantaneously generated traffic-enabled maps, optimal routing, estimated time-to-arrival and predictive itinerary services to personal and corporate users. Start their blog/wiki/journal for the class. is their business worth pursuing (market size).

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Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases non-events

Startup Lessons Learned

If youre interested in contributing a case study for publication here, consider getting started by adding it to the Lean Startup Wiki case study section. Examples of things I monitor are the numbers of user activations, active users, and aggregate page hits to user galleries.

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Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business)

Startup Lessons Learned

Two others – that each team member give their input independently and that the results be objectively aggregated – are also key parts of building a meritocracy. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. Diversity is not the only requirement for making good group decisions.

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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 2: Business Model Hypotheses

Steve Blank

Start their team’s blog/wiki/journal to record their progress during for the class. We graded them on a scale of 1-5, posted our grades and comments to a shared Google doc, and had our Teaching Assistant aggregate the grades and feedback to pass on to the teams.). Consider if their business worth pursuing? The Nine Teams Present.

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It's a startup, not a spreadsheet

Startup Lessons Learned

It’s entirely possible for the startup to be a massive success without having large aggregate numbers, because the startup has succeeded in finding a passionate, but small, early adopter base that has tremendous per-customer behavior. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers.

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The Optimizer’s Guide to Web Accessibility

ConversionXL

site authoring, multimedia authoring, blog authoring, wiki authoring) more accessible. Aggregate and report the findings, and calculate overall scores. UAAG is for making user agents (e.g. browsers, browser extensions, media players, readers) more accessible. ATAG is for making online authoring tools (e.g. In the U.S., User Testing.

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