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Welcome To The Fall Semester

Feld Thoughts

Fitbit launched two new products yesterday ( Fitbit Zip and Fitbit One ), Return Path launches three today (Email Intelligence!), My fourth book, Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City comes out at the end of the month. The Startup Revolution has begun. Launching Startup Revolution.

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Pitching America’s mayors

Austin Startup

Startups make their case to mayors & tech leaders At SXSW, seven startups had the opportunity to pitch a group of mayors and tech leaders on their unique approaches to addressing civic challenges. Austin Mayor Steve Adler The event was kicked off by Austin Mayor Steve Adler and MCed by Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett.

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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 7: Revenue Model

Steve Blank

The Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment in a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. its product or service) to its customers. They moved from “Reference Libraries” to “Product Libraries”— an on-line social shopping system. (If In Oklahoma City, Oklahoma it was the city engineer and director of public works.

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After 20 years: Updating the Berkus Method of valuation

Berkonomics

In 2005, Alan McCann created a graphic representation of the Method: Note that Allan changed the title of the risks from technology-execution-market-production to investment-marketing-execution-development. For example, in Silicon Valley, a “big data” startup might competitively call for a $1.5 The Method should allow for this.