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Is a Venture Studio Right for You?

Steve Blank

This post previously appeared in the Harvard Business Review. 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. I asked how much he knew about how to get started.

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

YoungUpstarts

But those same words could easily be applied to the Singapore-based technology entrepreneurs present at Techventure 2011. Just a bit of background – the high-tech start-up scene in Singapore is said to be growing healthily in recent years. 59-percent) and the average of several European countries (ranging from 54- to 67-percent).

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

Steve Blank

From that day on, when I got asked about which corporate innovation program had the best process for idea selection, I started my list with Qualcomm. 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.

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

YoungUpstarts

This is the second in a three-part series that aims to help you understand the Traction Gap Framework® – a step-by-step approach that startup teams can use to go from ideation to preparing to scale. In the go-to-product phase, you can get help from a plethora of incubators, accelerators and angel investors. Go-to-Product.

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Smart Bear Live 7: More from AZ Disruptors

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

In this episode, we share three more interviews from our AZ Disruptors meeting last fall. You can subscribe to Smart Bear Live on iTunes (please review the podcast as well!) … and if you’d like to appear on a future episode of Smart Bear Live, send an email to Patrick.Foley@microsoft.com to schedule a recording with Jason.

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How to Scale a Venture Capital (or Private Equity) Fund

David Teten

This evolves the VC from a server to a router. The firm attracts deal flow by promising a decision (positive or negative) in under 2 weeks, with minimal paperwork and without repeating due diligence. I’m distinguishing these from incubators and accelerators.) – Launch a “ venture studio ” or “ foundry ”. (I’m

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Hacking Innovation Education in New York

This is going to be BIG.

Sramana Mitra said not to long ago in Forbes : “I have come to observe that most business school programs have an extensive emphasis on fundraising, especially from venture capitalists, and very little pragmatic understanding of what it really takes to get a venture off the ground. It’s a recipe for failure. No revenues, no costs.

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