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How To Get Ready To Participate In An Acceleration Program

YoungUpstarts

If this happens, the risk of having an unpleasant experience is much higher, as an early stage startup cannot afford 7 months off the correct path. To give you a practical example, I’d like to analyze the reasons why my startup was rejected from participating in Start-Up Chile ’s Generation 17. It was all hypothetical.

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Blowing up the Business Plan at U.C. Berkeley Haas Business School

Steve Blank

As I looked around at other schools, I saw pretty much the same landscape – business plan classes, business plan competitions and loosely coupled accelerators that focused primarily on mentoring. There had been tectonic shifts in the startup world, but our business school curriculum had barely moved. And there it was.

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

SoCal CTO

He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us. They are: Fred Wilson: Lead Investors, Dipshit Companies, and Funding Every Entrepreneur. Often board members give entrepreneurs two bits of advice regarding scale: Get a mentor. twenty in your wallet? equity debate.

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Traveling the world, meeting startups: What We learned

The Next Web

The main observation of differences between Silicon Valley and emerging tech hubs in the rest of the world is access to early stage seed funding and international press. Although entrepreneurs need to practice their pitches (and English). Many startups are Silicon Valley clones.

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Episode 3: Smart Bear Live!

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

If someone wants to become an entrepreneur, is it more important to keep looking for a really good media idea that you can do a month’s worth of customer development on or is it better to think of literally what complete start up can I make in a week? They have 27 business units. So I have a question for you, Jason. Jason: Nice.

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