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May Business Angels Spread Their Wings Over Kenya?

Transformify

The capital of Kenya, Nairobi, is a vibrant city offering various resources for young start – ups, including accelerator 88MPH and incubator i-Hub. Kenya offers limited job opportunities to university graduates. It is not surprising that young people are willing to start a business of their own if they can’t find a job.

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Lean Innovation Management – Making Corporate Innovation Work

Steve Blank

Inside of companies these are the mavericks you want to fire for not getting with program. Here the company is essentially incubating a startup. Horizon 3 groups need to be physically separate from operating divisions (in a corporate incubator, or their own facility.) Horizon 3 is where companies put their crazy entrepreneurs.

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The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Education and Corporate Innovation

Steve Blank

The easy part is, “Let’s have an incubator.” It wasn’t really part of the job as an educator. It’s taught at Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia and probably another hundred universities and colleges because I open-sourced the class and trained educators on how to teach it.

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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. 3) Open source your real estate.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. I also owe a great debt to Kent Beck, whose Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change was my first introduction to this kind of thinking. (So What are the characteristics of a lean startup?

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Out of the Crisis #13: Alpha Lee on remembering the 2003 SARS epidemic and his opensource COVID-19 Moonshot

Startup Lessons Learned

When the shelter in place orders began, Alpha found himself living in a tiny Airbnb with his other co-founders, Having just arrived from the UK to do the start up program, YCombinator. They took an open source approach, inviting thousands of collaborators from around the world to contribute potential solutions.

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Venture Capitalists, Super Angels and the State of Startup Funding

mashable.com

View more jobs » Len Williams Angels, super-angels, venture capitalists and micro-VCs - they all have their advantages and disadvantages. Nearly all have abandoned hope in the "sure thing" and are stepping into what has traditionally been the Angel role of incubating startups. Companies like GrowPublic, Inc.