Steve Blank

JANUARY 8, 2019

I’m a big fan of McKinsey’s Three Horizons Model of innovation. (if you’re not familiar with it there’s a brief description a few paragraphs down.) It’s one of the quickest ways to describe and prioritize innovation ideas in a large company or government agency. However, in the 21 st century the Three Horizons model has a fatal flaw that could put companies out of business and government agencies behind their adversaries.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 8, 2019

The basic idea of a sample business plan makes perfect sense. If you haven’t done a business plan before, a sample plan gives you an instant idea of what you should include, how to structure it, and even what to write. Bplans offers a library of more than 500 sample business plans across a wide variety of industries. Here’s how to get the most of any sample business plan.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 8, 2019

Many people say that no one gets rich working for someone else all their life. They continue that starting a new venture business is the way to go, and this is indeed what many of them do. While starting a business is not at all bad, it’s something that must be done with caution. Wanting to get rich is not enough reason and motivation to keep the entrepreneurial fire burning within.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 8, 2019

Transcript of How to Reliably Generate Big Ideas for Your Business written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Back to Podcast. Transcript. This transcript is sponsored by our transcript partner – Rev – Get $10 off your first order. John Jantsch: Everybody wants that next big idea for your business, but sitting down and thinking up big ideas is kind of a really great way to freeze your brain up.

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Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 8, 2019

When International Technological University’s CTO Kranthi Lammatha was a boy in the Indian farming village of Kasipuram, he would walk nine miles to get to school every day and another nine miles to get back home in the evening. Despite the fact that it was the early 1990s, the village, which was comprised of about 35 families at that time, had no school bus or even electricity for that matter.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 8, 2019

Workplace health and safety is a crucial component of office environments, for both the employer and the employee. An employer can take all the precautions to ensure their workers are safe – they can implement policies and procedures, conduct training, and reduce hazards – but employees also need to take responsibility for their own safety in an office environment.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 8, 2019

I’m very pleased to announce that Dorothy Ren has joined the investment team at NextView! Dorothy will be based in our New York office and will be focused on expanding our relationships with high-potential founders and operators in the New York startup community. Dorothy joins us most recently from Spark Capital, where she had the opportunity to apprentice with some of the best investors in the business and work closely with founders in a broad range of sectors, including fintech, next-gen trans

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 8, 2019

The new recruits that you hired are sitting in a room, facing a screen. The instructor is literally reading out from a Powerpoint presentation projected on that screen. The facial expressions of the new recruits have changed from that filled with a nervous energy and excitement to that of a dull mundane look; ideally reserved for an employee in the same dead-end job for 5 years.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 8, 2019

LinkedIn is one of the largest professional networking platforms in the world. It has over 500 million users worldwide making it the ideal place to connect with people who can elevate your career or business. To experience LinkedIn’s power, make an effort to create a complete and eye-catching profile that grabs attention and conveys the right things about you.

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 8, 2019

We are well into 2019. And yes, this is the time of year when people are thinking about resolutions and looking ahead. And while we are very excited about the new year and new fund, we also want to spend a few minutes to reflect on last quarter. Q4 was an important quarter for our firm and portfolio companies. As we move ahead into 2019, we can ride some great momentum.

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YFS Magazine

JANUARY 8, 2019

Your ability to prioritize work and family time takes practice and fine-tuning. Make it a life priority, and then find a system that works for you.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 8, 2019

This year, The Startup Magazine is proud to sponsor the entrepreneurship and venture capital conference, SeedCon, run by the Chicago Booth business school. On Friday, January 25, the entrepreneurial community at Chicago Booth looks forward to hosting their annual conference, SeedCon. Launched in 1999, SeedCon is a student-run entrepreneurship and venture capital conference at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business; the conference is co-hosted by the Entrepreneurship and Venture Cap

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YFS Magazine

JANUARY 8, 2019

Whether you're wheels up for your next conference, meeting or annual sabbatical, there are travel hacks that can make your trip hassle-free.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 8, 2019

I love a Haiku My mother is an artist Haikus in winter. My mom has started a haiku project. She takes haikus that friends write and turns them into a collage. Following is a haiku I wrote after my mom sent me an email asking me for one. Yes, I was in Charlotte, North Carolina at the time. I’m on the board of AvidXchange and this likely was written the night before the one board meeting a year I attend in person.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 8, 2019

Why Behavior Scoring is the Missing Ingredient in Your Marketing Approach written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. With inbound marketing becoming ever more popular in recent years, a marketer might be tempted to think broad when it comes to their approach. After all, when anyone can happen upon your brand, it means that anyone’s a potential customer, right?

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 8, 2019

Two-and-a-half months ago Einar Vollset and I announced TinySeed , the first startup accelerator designed for bootstrappers. The response was overwhelming. Hundreds and hundreds of tweets, re-tweets, likes, Hacker News upvotes, email responses…it was immediately obvious that there is pent up demand for this kind of alternative early-stage startup funding.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 8, 2019

How To Reliably Generate Big Ideas for Your Business written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Mike Brown. Podcast Transcript. My guest this week on the podcast is Mike Brown, an author and strategist who specializes in operationalizing design thinking. His new book, Idea Magnets , helps dynamic leaders to cultivate big ideas and create innovative success.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 8, 2019

Capital Factory Promotions, Opportunities and Gratitude for 2019 2018 was an incredible year for the Capital Factory community that introduced new roles and team members, expanded to multiple locations, and partnered with the US Army. WP Engine, Sparefoot and Aceable raised massive rounds of funding. We doubled the number of companies we are working with in Dallas, Houston and San Antonio and invested in more than one Texas startup per week.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 8, 2019

For medtech startups hard at work on innovative products, new FDA regulations could present challenges in 2019. In particular, this past October the FDA announced a significant number of guidance documents to be expected in 2019 , including “Expansion of the Abbreviated 510(k) Program: Demonstrating Substantial Equivalence through Performance Criteria,” “Breakthrough Devices Program,” and “Humanitarian Device Exemption (HDE) Program.

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