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

David Teten

I’ve listed them below in *very* roughly descending order of efficiency, measured by increased dollars one can put to work, divided by the operational dollars required to implement each strategy. . I’ve listed a few more below which require meaningful startup and ongoing costs. So we think about scaling a lot. – Go public.

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10 Tips for Making your Startup More Attractive for Investors [Presentation]

VC Cafe

Launch48 is a new kind of micro-incubator taking place over the course of a weekend, which enables entrepreneurs to pitch their concept in one minute, in order to find team mates who are interested in pursuing the idea. For example, you may point out that there is a company with similar technology, but different application/market.

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Venture Capitalists, Super Angels and the State of Startup Funding

mashable.com

Nearly all have abandoned hope in the "sure thing" and are stepping into what has traditionally been the Angel role of incubating startups. Carlos - Here is a list of super angels along with what they invest in and where. Companies like GrowPublic, Inc. Companies like GrowPublic, Inc. Visit [link] / for more information.

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Venture Capitalists, Super Angels and the State of Startup Funding

mashable.com

Nearly all have abandoned hope in the "sure thing" and are stepping into what has traditionally been the Angel role of incubating startups. Carlos - Here is a list of super angels along with what they invest in and where. Companies like GrowPublic, Inc. Companies like GrowPublic, Inc. Visit [link] / for more information.

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6 Ways to Recruit Talent for Startups

mashable.com

The site grew out of Startup Digest , a mailing list of startup events. The mailing list works in two ways: Every two weeks the 10 most interesting listings are e-mailed to more than 40,000 startups on the “Help a Startup Out Digest” listserv, and every week the best technical listings are sent to the “Hackers Digest” listserv.

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Smart Bear Live 7: More from AZ Disruptors

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

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. So pretty top, not A+ list but enough. ” or just retweet this one ). Jason: Right.

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