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IGNITE! pitch event at Microsoft – September 4

David Teten

A news curation dashboard for teams and organizations. Delve offers a powerful alternative: a curated database of stories and a simple way to choose relevant stories and engage with them across teams and organizations. Material Wrld is an exclusive online fashion community for shoppable personal closets.

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Why Every Business Needs To Become A Platform, And How To Do It

YoungUpstarts

Obsessive curation of the brand experience. Prior to WePay , he was Global Vice President of Sales at SAP, previously serving the company as Vice President of Analytics for Asia, Pacific & Japan and Global Vice President of Business Analytics and Technology solutions, Ecosystem and Channel Partners.

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5 Fall Must-Read Books for Entrepreneurs

Up and Running

Knight finally discloses the story of his titanic rise in this book about his determination to build a business importing low-cost, high-quality shoes from Japan. “My And if you speed through these picks or want more options, check out some of the other curated reading lists on Bplans. No time for reading?

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[Singapore][Competition] Rakuten Startup Challenge

YoungUpstarts

Japan-based electronic commerce and Internet service provider Rakuten has announced its first-ever Rakuten Startup Challenge in Singapore, a competition that looks at getting Singapore-based entrepreneurs and developers to develop personalized e-commerce websites using Rakuten’s APIs (Application Programming Interface).

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Twitter Link Roundup #78 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Entrepreneurs Need to Find the Best ‘Curators’ – [link]. Best photogallery I have seen so far of the earthquake in Japan – [link]. Outstanding Forbes interview with Yuri Millner – The Billionaire Who Friended the Web – [link]. How can I tell if I am failing at my start-up? – [link]. – [link].

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How to Stop Playing “Target Market Roulette”: A new addition to the Lean toolset

Steve Blank

The Market Opportunity Navigator is a useful adjunct to the curation and prioritization steps. The founders’ first idea was to use the drone for observing critical disasters, like the reactor meltdowns in Fukushima, Japan. While the Innovation Pipeline tells us how to go to from sourcing to delivery how do we prioritize our choices?

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Nine Webcasts to Learn From

Startup Lessons Learned

John moved to Japan in the 1980s to work at Toyota, which at that point had the most advanced manufacturing practices in the world. And so they came to this idea if we had a playlist for kids that was really intuitive for them, that we could curate all these different resources so that kids could actually choose how they learn best.

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