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The Texas Startup Manifesto

Austin Startup

Sometimes it’s because the business grows market-by-market, like Favor, or sometimes it’s that the business needs to grow its sales or programming teams in multiple cities. Texas is one of the only places where we can run a single Accelerator program across multiple cities. Many businesses expand geographically city by city.

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supermac War Story 1: Joining supermac

Steve Blank

They were one of the first companies to sell an external disk drive for the original Mac; they had the first “color paint programs” for the Mac; and when the Mac was just black and white they had the first color graphics boards and large screen color monitors for the Mac.

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Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Check Out Stanzr

ReadWriteStart

We invited entrepreneurs considering joining the 1M/1M premium program to the Stanzr chat room and did a one-hour Q&A session. Said from Orange County, California, pitched MapWide.com , which is supposed to be a collection of sites like MapDentist.com, MapDoctors.com, etc. We thought it was very cool! MapWide.com. Next, Dr. S.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: New Assessment Tool For Entrepreneurs

ReadWriteStart

MyTab Next, Heddi Cundle from San Francisco, California, discussed MyTab , an online gift-registry of sorts to raise money for travel. partners to help bring his product to market. Thursday, July 28, 2011: Register Here And you can sign up for the 1M/1M premium program here. I advised Anupam to come up with a 2011 strategy.

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Let's Fire Our Customers

Steve Blank

No trade-up program? Also, there are a variety of strategies for “easing out&# gracefully such as finding an outsourcing vendor or new partner. No discount for existing users? 2) They don’t care about your profitibility and ultimately, your staying power. 3) Managing the relationship is more consumptive than the rewards.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part X: Stanford Crosses the.

Steve Blank

All branches of the military (the Air Force and Army would fund the program as well) wanted Stanford to build prototypes of electronic intelligence and electronic warfare systems that could be put into production by partners in industry. The Navy informs Terman that, “money was not a problem but time was.”

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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

Union Square Ventures The next morning I got to spend time with Brad Burnham , partner at Union Square Ventures talking about their investment strategy and insights about web-based businesses. Bill and his partner Fred Wilson have invested in ~30 or so companies with 27 still active.