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Is a Venture Studio Right for You?

Steve Blank

For most accelerators, admission is by application and interview. If the idea passes a series of “Go/No Go” decisions based on milestones for customer discovery and validation, the studio recruits entrepreneurial founders to run and scale those startups. They then transfer the IP and build the startup inside the venture studio.

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Hacking for Diplomacy – The State Department Takes Notice

Steve Blank

Teams are continuing their relentless interviewing of customers, or beneficiaries as we call them in this class. By the time the quarter is over, we expect our seven teams will have interviewed close to 700 potential beneficiaries around the globe. There is so much room for improvement,” he said.

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Hacking for Diplomacy – The State Department Takes Notice

Steve Blank

Teams are continuing their relentless interviewing of customers, or beneficiaries as we call them in this class. By the time the quarter is over, we expect our seven teams will have interviewed close to 700 potential beneficiaries around the globe. There is so much room for improvement,” he said.

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Beware The Consultant

infochachkie.com

For instance, if a consultant proposes to help you with public relations, pay them a commission equivalent to the greater of a flat fee per story placed or a percentage of revenue generated from the PR coverage. At the early stages of your company’s life, you cannot rely on disinterested, hired guns to define your company’s key tasks.

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How to Write a Business Plan

Up and Running

Use this chapter to describe your current team and who you need to hire. Intellectual Property : Again, this mostly applies to technology and scientific ventures. Have members of the team had entrepreneurial successes before? This chapter will also define how you measure success. Read more ». Management Team.

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Out of the Crisis #20: the founders of Bitwise on the role of technology in empowering people, spreading benefits to underserved communities, and the creation of OnwardUS

Startup Lessons Learned

They founded Onward, a platform that matches displaced workers--usually, hourly workers--to industries that are hiring rapidly right now. Then came back as a sort of a young intellectual property attorney, working for a wonderful firm here in town. What was your first entrepreneurial steps?

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