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Is a Venture Studio Right for You?

Steve Blank

Three types of organizations – Incubators, Accelerators and Venture Studios – have emerged to reduce the risk of early-stage startup failure by helping teams find product/market fit and raise initial capital. Venture studios create startups by incubating their own ideas or ideas from their partners. Reducing Startup Risk.

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How Incubators And Accelerators Work For Startups

YoungUpstarts

by Alejandro Cremades, author of “The Art of Startup Fundraising“ Entrepreneurs with an interesting business concept or Intellectual Property (IP) don’t always have the skills and relevant know-how to transform industry-disruptive ideas into commercially viable products.

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[Event] [Singapore] Techventure 2011: A Sign of Increasing Asian Technology Innovation

YoungUpstarts

Plans for more Singapore-based technology incubators. The NRF just announced that it will be opening up the application process for its Technology Incubation Scheme (TIS) to allow more investors to set up technology incubators under the scheme. ” Global Money Flow – From the West to Asia.

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Qualcomm’s Corporate Entrepreneurship Program – Lessons Learned (Part 2)

Steve Blank

With hindsight we should have had “proof of concepts” tested in a corporate center (think ‘pop-up incubator’) where they would do extensive Customer Discovery. Eventually Qualcomm did create a corporate incubator to handle projects beyond the scope of traditional R&D, yet too early to hand-off to existing business unit).

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Traversing No-Man’s Land, The Go-To-Market Phase

YoungUpstarts

In the go-to-product phase, you can get help from a plethora of incubators, accelerators and angel investors. In two of these three phases – the first and third – volumes of helpful information and numerous organizations are readily available to help guide and support founders of startups.

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Is This Startup Ready For Investment?

Steve Blank

Corporations running internal incubators face many of the same selection issues as startup investors, plus they must grapple with the issues of integrating new ideas into existing P&L-driven functions or business units. data that investors, accelerators and incubators can use to inform selection. Diagnostics.

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Anatomy of an Innovation-friendly School

This is going to be BIG.

I've been thinking a lot about what an innovation-friendly school looks like and have a few thoughts--and it doesn't just mean building labs or creating more flexible IP licensing schemes. They don't have to be big, contrived incubators--just a few couches and maybe a plug or two--and open wifi. Kick the faculty out.

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