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Life Science Startups Rising in the UK

Steve Blank

Stephen Chambers spent 22 years in some of the most innovative companies in life science as the director of gene expression and then as a co-founder of his own company. Stephen and SynbiCITE , just launched the world’s first Lean LaunchPad for Synthetic Biology program. Lean LaunchPad to Accelerate Commercialization.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: Akamai

Seeing Both Sides

The Lean Start-Up movement, as exemplified in Eric Ries' book The Lean Start-Up, has appropriately focused a great deal of attention on the hard decisions and techniques required to create a company from nothing. Even more tragically, the company's founder, Danny Lewin, was killed on one of the 9/11 airplanes. Founding Akamai.

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Food Truck Rivalry on Campuses | WSJ.com | Campus as Market

Campus Entrepreneurship

and Bon Appétit Management Co., But some, like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, grant limited access to select independent vendors. Aramark Corp. Many universities don’t allow outside food trucks to come onto campus. MIT, in Cambridge, Mass., via Food Trucks: The Newest Rivalry on College Campuses – WSJ.com.

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Strategy Roundtable: Professional Investors Do Not Invest In $20 Million Markets

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Bokér/1 Next David Sarna with Hendon, Stamford Hill & Co. She has a masters degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Without a crisp analysis of these numbers, investors cannot assess the market opportunity and their potential for making returns.

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Strategy Roundtable: Professional Investors Do Not Invest In $20 Million Markets

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Bokér/1 Next David Sarna with Hendon, Stamford Hill & Co. She has a masters degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Without a crisp analysis of these numbers, investors cannot assess the market opportunity and their potential for making returns.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., Mr. Dreymann moved his family from Israel in 2004 after co-founding Goodmail in Mountain View, Calif., And companies that didnt survive might have closed their doors for reasons other than failure, for example, getting acquired or the founders moving on to new projects.

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Read This Excerpt From Steve Case (AOL)’s New Book

Startup Lessons Learned

Guest post by Melissa Moore, co-founder of Lean Startup Co. The Lean Startup movement brings together the brightest minds in Silicon Valley to share the best advice for entrepreneurs, from entrepreneurs. Our early ventures may not have provided much in the way of cash, but they did provide a wealth of experience.

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