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10,000 Startups – Startup Weekend Next

Steve Blank

A partnership of Startup Weekend , Startup America , TechStars and Udacity , Startup Weekend Next brings four weeks of amazing hands-on training learning to build your startup to cities around the world. And Udacity has put their awesome production resources behind the class and hosts the Lean LaunchPad online lectures.

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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

Eliminating middlemen in healthcare – from using AI to automate repetitive human jobs to exploring new and better business models for providing care. AI characters are already hosting interactive streams and shows in which they respond to audience questions, comments, or votes in real-time.

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PeoplesVC Launches Crowdfunding TV Channel

YoungUpstarts

Peterborough, New Hampshire-based PeoplesVC is on a mission to create jobs in America, and the equity-based crowdfunding site is in the process of launching an integrated multimedia platform to do exactly that. “Our primary mission here at PeoplesVC is to create jobs in America,” says Akhil Garland, CEO of PeoplesVC , Inc.

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Open Source Entrepreneurship

Steve Blank

The class teaches the three basic skills all entrepreneurs need to know: business model design. The free on-line class , hosted at Udacity is here. The free on-line lectures, hosted at Udemy are here. TechStars and Startup America are partnering to provide mentors in the U.S. customer development. Find it here.

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Ellison Eyewear the Multi-Billion $ Sunglass Industry

Hearpreneur

High-end sunglass distributors have built a multi-billion dollar business model on one very simple life truth: you will lose your sunglasses. He wanted to help people with eye issues, but there had to be a way to create something more meaningful than simply hosting fundraisers or donating to various causes. Why Crowdfunding?

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Shark Tank 2012 Holiday Episode Breakdown

Lightspeed Venture Partners

The space can host 6-9 parties per weekend, and they generated $350,000 in revenue last year. Even after paying the two founders $100,000 collectively in salary, the business still made a profit in the $125,000 to $150,000 range. As O’Leary said, this isn’t an equity investment.

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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

www.chubbybrain.com

Corporate America could learn from this. We’d love to see these given the number of businesses you see and ultimately invest in. I was about to become the first person in America to sell condom key chains. With that investment thesis thwarted, there is no way to pay expenses, primarily salary and hosting costs.