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Innovation and Venture Capital in New Jersey

Feld Thoughts

If you are a fan of Startup Communities , there’s a lot going on around new initiatives on this front. Ian Hathaway and I are hard at work on a book called The Startup Community Way, which is modeled after Eric Ries’ evolution of The Lean Startup to his recent book The Startup Way.

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

Steve Blank

— Ashok has taken a Lean approach to innovation at Verizon: Within a couple of weeks of joining Verizon, they said, “Before you learn a lot about the company, write down what you think we should do.” Send an email to terri@kandsranch.com describing your entrepreneurial journey. If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

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Why You Need Business Development w/ Hunter Boyle of AWeber

ConversionXL

That said, in order to build & maintain those relationships he spends a lot of time using: Email. Take for example, New Jersey chocolate makers Chocomize. With one 30 word writeup in Oprah’s magazine, their sales increased by 5x, resulting between 50-100 emails and phone calls a day – for a 3 person team.

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Building The Machine Podcast Episode 5: Dan Kimerling Deciens Capital

Eric Friedman

Eric, as you know, I grew up in suburban New Jersey and in suburban New Jersey, we ate a lot of Benihana growing up and I love the Americanized version of this deeply traditional Japanese meal. We were basically emailing Excel workbooks back and forth to our bank partners every day. On Deciens’ Lean Operation.

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Out of the Crisis #4: Carl Liebert, crisis veteran and radical optimist

Startup Lessons Learned

I was the division president for the northeast division on 9/11, and all the stores in New York and New Jersey and, obviously, all the east coast stores for Circuit City were mine. But you can't beat yourself up because you didn't have a good email address as before you started, or you didn't have their social media counts.

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

online.wsj.com

Harley Goes Lean to Build Hogs. Most Emailed Feed. New Hampshire. New Jersey. New Mexico. New Hampshire. New Jersey. New Mexico. Most Emailed Feed. Subscriber Content Read Preview. Pension Crisis Looms Despite Cuts. Subscriber Content Read Preview. Most Popular. Commented.

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Out of the Crisis #18: Sal Khan on institution building, solving the digital divide, and education as the lever for all decisions

Startup Lessons Learned

There was a South Korean teacher in particular, who started emailing us telling us how he was using Khan Academy to keep his students learning through the school closures there. Sal Khan : I think that might have been the Friday we first chatted, or we were exchanging some emails. Eric Ries : I remember. We were based in Boston.