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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 32: Evangelos Simoudis and Ashok Srivastava

Steve Blank

Evangelos Simoudis zJoining me in from the studio at Stanford University were: Evangelos Simoudis , venture investor and senior advisor to global corporations. they often confuse the vehicles to innovation –a venture fund, or an incubator or something else — with actual innovation. Ashok Srivastava.

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Amsterdam’s Rockstart Accelerator Sees Good First Year, Announces 2nd Edition

YoungUpstarts

It recently announced the results of its incubator program – and the results look promising. Of the ten startups in the inaugural 2012 class, four have raised follow-on funding to date, and one even reached the break-even point and expanded to Silicon Valley.

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China’s Torch Program – the glow that can light the world (Part 2 of 5)

Steve Blank

This enabled Torch to evolve with China’s rapidly global economy. Torch has four major parts: Innovation Clusters , Technology Business Incubators (TBIs), Seed Funding (Innofund) and Venture Guiding Fund. They provide consulting, promotion, product testing, hiring, training and incubation services to startups.

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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

Urs Cete, the Head of Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments , notes, “If you think you can provide just money, you will be disintermediated.”. Internal R&D, labs, incubators, accelerators, corporate and business development, and M&A all play important roles in helping corporations innovate. Are they good sales people?

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China’s Torch Program – the glow that can light the world (Part 2 of 5)

Steve Blank

This enabled Torch to evolve with China’s rapidly global economy. Torch has four major parts: Innovation Clusters , Technology Business Incubators (TBIs), Seed Funding (Innofund) and Venture Guiding Fund. They provide consulting, promotion, product testing, hiring, training and incubation services to startups.

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What I Learned from 500 Educators – Build Back Better Summit – Results

Steve Blank

If one looks around in the world, you see these huge problems, massive inequality, hunger, poverty, climate change, issues of how to set up a global trading system. Not only the theorists but constituents for customer development, or with Main Street businesses and local constituents. You have national problems. Main Street.

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Women 2.0 » FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder

www.women2.org

After quitting my job and starting Sorced , I spent a few months validating my business concept by creating the product mockups and doing customer development. Media Training. Iridescent LA & Global Do Gooders cordially invite you to a STEM in LA Mixer. Global Womens Journey. Partner Events. Female Founders.