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Why The Government is Isn’t a Bigger Version of a Startup

Steve Blank

Rather than focus the university inward on research, Terman took the radical step of encouraging Stanford professors and graduate students to start companies applying engineering to pressing military problems. With Agile development, used by all startups, updates can occur in weeks or sometimes days, or even hours.

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1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Making Money From Blogs

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In my post Making Money With Blogs , I have articulated some of my thoughts on the subject and presented some possible models that would enable blogs and small media properties to sustain themselves with a proper revenue framework. One of them is the 1M/1M Affiliate Program we announced today at the roundtable. Photo by 7rains. Discuss.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Exciting Companies Lined Up For Microsoft Startup Grant Finals

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Bizosys Technologies, a Bangalore, India based software engineering company was founded in 2009. The first is HSearch, a NoSQL technology based search engine for big data that aims to break the barrier of scale of growing information and accessing it across information silos. Toward that end, they have created two products. Discuss.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: VCs Are Not Always Right

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In How To Defend Your Dream Against All Odds , Alex and I explore the company's journey to $200 Million in revenue, while their VCs wrote them off. Zoho is already over $100 million in revenue and is seeing tremendous traction. So, please don't get discouraged; there are many paths to success. Statisco Economic Analytics. Discuss.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Incubators Are Reaching Out To 1M/1M

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Sramana Mitra is the founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative, an educational, business development and incubation program that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. Discuss.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: New Assessment Tool For Entrepreneurs

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I asked Harshil to focus his entire product and go-to-market strategy on the college-bound age 18 market and develop his assessment module, vertical search engine for colleges and trust network to address the needs of that market and that market alone. Age 18 is worried about college and that in itself is a sizable market. Discuss.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Niche Marketplace Businesses Can Be Interesting

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Well, 1M/1M is focused on helping businesses generate $1M in annual revenue, whatever be the nature of the business. But our goal is to make sure that these businesses are sustainable, have customers, revenues, and profits. We do not and will not have any particular focus on non profits that are dependent upon funding from charities.

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