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In Boston, a School to Learn How to Work at a Startup

ReadWriteStart

The Boston Startup School , founded at TechStars Boston (see For TechStars Boston, Life Beyond the Pitch ), is creating a program that will give aspiring entrepreneurs and others all the tools they will need to work at a startup. It comes down to serving the needs of the growing ecosystem of the Boston tech community.

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10 College Business Incubators We’re Most Excited About

YoungUpstarts

Boston University Business Incubation. At Boston University, there’s an incredible array on business incubation opportunities. Some of the i-lab’s long-term residents include mobile app ActivePepper, baby gear rental company Baby Buggle, and software developer Rover. Innovation Depot. Based in Mountain View, Calif.,

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Catch Me at the 2010 Business of Software Conference in Boston

Software By Rob

A Developer’s Guide to Launching a Startup&# → Catch Me at the 2010 Business of Software Conference in Boston Micropreneurship , Startups If youre trying grow your startup youve come to the right place. I will be speaking at the 2010 Business of Software Conference in Boston this October.

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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

A company developing software would have to buy computers and license software from other companies and hire the staff to run and maintain it. Today open source software has slashed the cost of software development from millions of dollars to thousands. Finally the board would fire the VP of sales.

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The Difference Between Apple & Facebook ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Apple and Facebook are both platforms , in the sense that their software and user networks are utilized by countless software developers to build their own businesses. billion to developers and Apple paid out something like $2B or so. At the end of the day, Apple isn’t really a software platform company.

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Making Social Media Work For SMEs

YoungUpstarts

But by learning from the experts, making a conscious commitment to social media as a sales or customer service channel and leveraging their inherent flexibility and adaptability as small organizations, SMEs can get it right and reap the benefits. [1] 1] Bigcommerce, The Democratization of Ecommerce, September 2014. [2] 2] [link]. [3]

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“To build a community, you need to focus much more on the user than on the buyer” - Snyk’s Guy Podjarny

Cracking the Code

That’s what I found most attractive about software development: building things. Starting in three cities - Tel Aviv, London and Boston - at almost the same time helped, but can you walk us through how you thought about building a global company from day one? And I’ve always taken initiative. What have you learned from it?