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10,000 Startups – Startup Weekend Next

Steve Blank

The class teaches founders how to dramatically reduce their failure rate through the combination of business model design, customer development and agile development using the Startup Owners Manual. More importantly, it makes no demands of you to stand and deliver your weekly customer development progress in front of your peers.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Hemafuse

Austin Startup

Because of a global donor blood shortage, particularly in emerging markets, clinicians and patients don’t have enough access to donor blood. Carolyn Yarina , Co-Founder and CEO of Sisu Global Health. What is your top goal for Sisu Global for 2020? We are proud to be a Baltimore-based company with global reach.

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15 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I remember one day, after sitting through what must have been the 15th meeting that week with sleazy salesmen, thinking There has to be a better way… That night I started working on my business plan for what ultimately became Piccana – an inbound marketing agency. 100% transparency was to be the main core value.

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Higher Ed Start-Up Teams With Top Universities to Offer ‘Free’ Courses

Campus Entrepreneurship

I have worked for 3 ‘internet startups’ over the past 14 years (my first.com was in 1999) and the two that relied on ‘free’ models (even with ‘freemium services’) did not survive.

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Crushing It With Competitive Intelligence Analysis: Best Metrics, Reports

Occam's Razor

Easy question to answer, and free with Compete (remember, this is US visits only) or SimilarWeb (global traffic). Every website in the world has a unique business strategy. Is Getty really competing with these sites, given its business model? Or is this a gap in their business approach they should fix in some other way?

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