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The fundamental lesson of the forces governing scaling startups

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

On the other hand, while the small company loses 9 months to the loss of a key employee, or even implodes, the big company is the steady turtle that adds thousands of customer per month like clockwork and wins the race. A new feature that helps you land just a few new customers this month is worth doing. Predictability.

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The 5 Best States In America For New Business

YoungUpstarts

The state’s economy, government incentives and training, business regulations and workforce are other crucial factors. Even Apple has decided to move closer to many of its techie customers and brand loyalists and set up camp in the lonestar state. Virginia topped Forbes Magazine’s list of best states for business in 2013.

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The Big Bang. The Lean LaunchPad explodes at University of Maryland

Steve Blank

Over 44 classes have embedded the business model canvas and/or Customer Discovery including a year-long course taken by every single one of its bioengineering majors. We didn’t know it at the time, but with that investment we had paid for front-row VIP seats to witness the origins of Customer Development and the Lean Startup.

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Did you know that board management software isn’t just for boards?

Board Effect

Memorial Health System , a not-for-profit, independent, integrated health system with locations in Ohio and West Virginia, has also been able to expand the use of BoardEffect to many groups within the organization, with a significant number of committees and internal groups benefiting. Ask for references from other happy customers.

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boldstart 2018 recap and what’s hot in enterprise 2019

BeyondVC

Once again, we led each of these rounds at slide deck stage and helped land the first handful of customers to accelerate path to product market fit and their Series A rounds. This means more collaboration with the Fortune 500 and more go-to-market experience as our portfolio companies navigate their path to first customers.

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How we changed the way the U.S. government commercializes science: Errol Arkilic — Part 1 of Episode 6 on Sirius XM Channel 111

Steve Blank

In my interview with Errol, we discussed the origins of the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (I-Corps), how and why it was created, and how it changed the way the government commercializes scientific research. government needs your help,’ and I remember saying, ‘The U.S. government accelerator that takes no equity.

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Can Business Save The Earth?

YoungUpstarts

To meet our sustainability challenge will require active leadership by business as well as the deep involvement of others – scientists, inventors, investors, customers, policy makers, activists. Each of these players influence the degree to which businesses invest in and develop sustainable technologies.

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