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The Government Starts an Incubator: The National Science Foundation Innovation Corps

Steve Blank

We’ve been reading your blog about your Lean Launchpad class.” Since the first part of the lecture was about Alexander Osterwalder’s Business Model Canvas, Osterwalder flew in from Switzerland to teach slides 20-76. In July I got a call from Errol Arkilic , a program manager at the National Science Foundation (NSF), the $6.8-billion

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What Can You Learn from the 4-Hour Workweek?

Both Sides of the Table

I wrote a blog post related to this called Is it Time to Earn or to Learn? During this period of time I found ways to get my firm to staff me in Italy, France, Hungary, Switzerland, Belgium, Spain and the UK. Of course the 4-hour work week and DL plan is a gross over generalization and meant to be shocking.

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I’m in Logo Love: Toblerone Logo Design

crowdSPRING Blog

“I’m In Logo Love” is a new series on the crowdSPRING blog. Background on Toblerone: Toblerone was started in Bern, Switzerland by Jean Tobler. The Matterhorn is a great symbol of Switzerland, and is said to possibly be the inspiration for the shape of the candy bar. Today, we’ll look at the logo for Toblerone.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Thanks from switzerland, Nice story! Your quote “startup fundraising isn’t about convincing skeptics but rather finding true believers” is amazingly true and made it into my blog “Founder Hacks” @ [link]. Good luck with making your future investment decisions. Ps check mypicasso.com. great insight.

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Service Exports - Driving U.S. Startups and Small Businesses

Growthink Blog

In the last 6 months, we have advised clients and investors, in no particular order, from Kenya, India, Italy, South Africa, Germany, China, Brazil, Mexico, Switzerland, the U.A.E., Since the great “financial crisis” of 2008-2009, the firm’s clientele – really without us even trying – has becoming increasingly global. So from 95%+ U.S.

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Purple Cows and Charity Water

VC Cafe

I’ve started a 30 day blogging challenge (more about it here and you can subscribe for the newsletter ). I’m paraphrasing a bit, but it goes something like this: He was driving through the countryside of Switzerland, and for miles all he saw on the side of the road, was rows of trees. This is day three.

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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. All teams kept a blog – almost like a diary – to record everything they did. Vogt Holding), PhD Mechanical Engineering (FAU, Germany), MS Engineering (ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Consider if their business worth pursuing?