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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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14 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Are Incorporating Social Entrepreneurship in Their Business

Hearpreneur

It’s argued that social entrepreneurship is the new business model due its ability to help one connect with the world and live a purposeful life while serving others. It also improves the image of business through collaborations and fosters relationships for a better society. 1- Three ways. Photo Credit: Jeremy Cross.

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Sprint Like An Egyptian: A Tech Entrepreneurship Revolution in Alexandria

Gust

At the threshold of one of the most recognizable landmarks in human history — the sole survivor among the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World , dating back nearly five thousand years — my host was engaged in heated debate with a rotating phalanx of functionaries.

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Five Questions With Adam Davidson (New Yorker Journalist, Planet Money Cofounder & Generally Smart Person)

Hunter Walker

America is worse than it was before and, probably, worse in a semi-permanent way. HW: You were co-founder and longtime co-host of Planet Money, one of the most successful podcasts out there. You’ve also hosted a podcast on Gimlet. They have different business models, different companies, different creators, etc.

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From Airbnb to TaskRabbit to Zimride, sharing is becoming big business

www.usatoday.com

Americas new business model: Sharing. Now that their kids are grown, the empty-nesters rent their Monterey Heights-district two-bedroom mother-in-law suite through Airbnb, an online marketplace for couch-surfers and hosts. Weve hosted some interesting tech entrepreneurs. Americas new business model: Sharing.

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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.