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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

Instead of students or faculty coming in with their own ideas — we now have them working on societal problems, whether they’re problems for the State Department or the Department of Defense, or non-profits/NGOs, or for the City of Oakland or for energy or the environment, or for anything they’re passionate about.

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Diverse Startups Can Receive Tech Mentorship And Thrive

ReadWriteStart

Digital Undivided does this by offering workshops and resources in cities with predominantly black populations: Philadelphia, DC, Atlanta, Chicago, Houston, Detroit, Oakland and the Harlem neighborhood of New York City. According to Finney, black women need to be given the same resources and networks their white male counterparts enjoy.

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Cats With Your Coffee? What Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Purringtons Cat Cafe

Up and Running

In the last year alone, several have opened across the United States, with cafes in New York City, Oakland, California, and soon, Portland Oregon. Don’t bank on wild success from a crowdfunding campaign. So many businesses have had runaway success with crowdfunding campaigns—why not give it a try? Not so fast.

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Moneyball Design: Why the Research and Data Analysis is Critical to Getting Your Prospects to Convert

ConversionXL

It’s about the Oakland A’s and their General Manager Billy Beane. Obama’s own campaign used Moneyball and Lean Startup strategies to win the ultra high stakes Presidential Election. . – The Art & Science of Web Design by Jeffrey Veen. What’s Moneyball?

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15 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

June 2016 Friendly Guy Insurance was rolled out and it is now my logo and is used for all of my marketing campaigns. The name, Saranap dates back over 100 years when a commuter train cut across California, connecting Oakland to Sacramento. 21 years later, I needed to take a look at my brand. 3 – Finding Passion.

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