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Open to All: Scholarships for The Lean Startup Conference

Startup Lessons Learned

Sourabh: I''m a student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and part of the local community of entrepreneurs and startup folks in Lincoln and Nebraska. And that’s all not to mention the hours and hours we spent at the coffee shop discussing equity. Why is it taking so long to get something out of the door?

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Getting high on your own Svpply: When who’s using the service is part of the product

This is going to be BIG.

The list goes on.The initial Gilt userbase of successful female friends of Alexis and Alexandra, the private equity laden graph of the Doostang founders--capturing a certain group's attention goes a long way to creating that value of the service. Is that a good thing? Can you design around it? Do you want to?

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Getting high on your own Svpply: When who’s using the service is part of the product

This is going to be BIG.

The list goes on.The initial Gilt userbase of successful female friends of Alexis and Alexandra, the private equity laden graph of the Doostang founders--capturing a certain group's attention goes a long way to creating that value of the service. Is that a good thing? Can you design around it? Do you want to?

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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

When it comes to founders, Texas has jewelry mogul, Kendra Scott; Mavericks owner, Mark Cuban of Shark Tank; Whitney Wolfe Herd of Bumble; video game developer, John Carmack; Vista Equity Partners Founder, Robert Smith; Michael Dell of Dell Technologies; and now Elon Musk of SpaceX and Tesla! all Bay Area firms?—?investing

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Transcript of Business Lessons Learned on the Baseball Field

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He’s a Midwest guy, grew up three hours, three and a half hours away in Lincoln, Nebraska, raising his kids here. It gives me no equity to try to push on things that I’m not going to get an answer to. He still is a good player. His contract is up. He doesn’t want to go anywhere else. It’s one of two choices.