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10,000 Startups – Startup Weekend Next

Steve Blank

Just a crazy idea two years ago, the class is now taught at Stanford , Berkeley, Columbia , Caltech, Princeton and for the National Science Foundation at the University of Michigan and Georgia Tech. You’ll refine your business model by iterating or pivoting your product, your target customers, pricing, channels, partners, etc.

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Accelerator Spotlight: I Have This Friend

View from Seed

EP: I went off to the University of Michigan for college and last year made my way back to Santa Monica after 4 years of working at Meta in Digital Marketing in Austin and San Francisco. We’ll have built out many more tools and channels that empower creatives and enable sustainable and thriving careers. And your least?

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7 Ways To Inspire Creativity In Your Employees

YoungUpstarts

One of the most frustrating structures you see in monolithic, global corporations is when employees never interact with people from other departments. Technology is always developing; today, a Michigan-based doctor can video-chat with a doctor in Mumbai and ask for a second insight on groundbreaking test results.

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The Power Of Play In Business Culture

Duct Tape Marketing

She is the founder and CEO of JAM a multi-million dollar global business that has connected millions of people through play since its inception as one of the largest adult recreational sports leagues in the world. The JAM team has produced and delivered over 3500 playful corporate events, in over 30 countries since the summer of 2020.

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Clusters, Class, Culture and Unfair Advantages

Steve Blank

Forty years later when the Internet has made knowledge global, we’ve run into the second barrier – just knowing about things is not the great equalizer we expected. Somehow I figured out how to apply to school in Michigan. After the Air Force I found the right Michigan.). Lucky for me as I never would have been accepted.

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Clusters, Class, Culture and Unfair Advantages

Steve Blank

Forty years later when the Internet has made knowledge global, we’ve run into the second barrier – just knowing about things is not the great equalizer we expected. Somehow I figured out how to apply to school in Michigan. After the Air Force I found the right Michigan.). Lucky for me as I never would have been accepted.

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Episode 3b: Smart Bear Live!

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

We been managing the field by plan more than 75 enterprise customers and channel partners. After you’ve organized all the global ad agencies in the world, then you can go after Enterprise once you’ve got that market down. What’s your question then? Noel: So we been looking on enterprise power management tool.

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