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Teaching Entrepreneurship in “Chilecon Valley”

Steve Blank

Teaching in Chile. I’ve spent the last week in Santiago, a guest of Professor Cristóbal García at the Catholic University of Chile as part of Stanford’s Engineering Technology Venture Program. This week the class has been adopted in the Computer Science department of the Catholic University of Chile. Valaparaiso houses.

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How To Get Ready To Participate In An Acceleration Program

YoungUpstarts

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. From our research we knew Start-Up Chile was keen to B2B startups, so we didn’t want to dismiss this business model and just focus on our B2C business model. After you are accepted.

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First Impressions Matter: Why Great Visual Design Is Essential

ConversionXL

The search box. Of all the feedback the test participants gave, 94% was about design: Complex; Busy layout; Lack of navigation aids; Boring web design; Use of color; Pop-up adverts; Slow introductions to the site; Small print; Too much text; Corporate look and feel; Poor search capabilities. Users spent 6.48 The main navigation menu.

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

Steve Blank

As I began my search to increase the relevance of our entrepreneurship curriculum with the same rigor as Timmons and New Venture Creation, I found the answer right here at Berkeley, in Steve Blank’s Lean LaunchPad class. Great entrepreneurs are on a search for the truth, no matter how wrong their initial conception is.

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Ukraine, Estonia, Chile, Finland: The saga of four accelerators

The Next Web

If you search Google News for something like “new startup accelerator,” it will return hundreds of headlines from all over the world. It’s hard to get the exact data on how many startup acceleration programs are being launched every year, but it’s definitely a lot.

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Women 2.0 Partners Google, Extends Founder Friday Events

YoungUpstarts

has announced that it is partnering search giant Google to support the startup and entrepreneurship ecosystem in the United States and around the world. Media and event company Women 2.0

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Five Drivers of Real Opportunity for Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

Entrepreneurs who search for real pain points, and build solutions around them, have the best chance of changing the world. I hear this term every day, wrongly applied to new user interfaces, or a new search engine. One of my favorite sayings is the “Real change doesn’t happen until the pain level gets high enough.”

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