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8 Ways The Maker Movement Turns Ideas Into Businesses

Startup Professionals Musings

Provides networking with cofounders and strategic partners. There are already more than 2000 hackerspaces worldwide, as listed on the Hackerspace Wiki. With the new rapid prototyping tools, products can be physically built for analysis, rather than just conceptualized. Countless startup teams have already been spawned from these.

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What Tools Do Startups Use? List Yours, Find Others' on This Wiki

ReadWriteStart

That's what Songkick 's Ian Hogarth did by creating a Startup Tools Wiki. Built to save others from "re-inventing the wheel," says Hogarth, the wiki gathers useful tools that startups have found and come to rely on. The wiki is meant to gather these resources in one place so companies that are getting started have a wiki to reference.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 19: Carmen Medina and Don Burke

Steve Blank

Carmen was the first CIA executive to envision many of the applications now used by CIA analysts, including online production, collaborative tools, and Intellipedia , the Intelligence Community-wide wiki developed by Don Burke and Sean Dennehy. Upon her retirement from CIA, she received the Distinguished Career Intelligence Medal.

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You Need to Be Listed on These 5 High-Visibility Directory Sites

The Startup Magazine

Use your LinkedIn profile to connect with potential business partners and bulk customers, but don’t be afraid to have some fun with your profile either. If you or your company have any claim to the site’s ever-expanding definition of “notability,” you have a claim to a Wiki of your own. Your Wikipedia page doesn’t have to be flashy.

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The Lean LaunchPad – Teaching Entrepreneurship as a Management Science

Steve Blank

Students will start by mapping their assumptions (their business model) and then each week test these hypotheses with customers and partners outside in the field (customer development) and use an iterative and incremental development methodology (agile development) to build the product. Start your blog/wiki/journal.

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A New Way to Teach Entrepreneurship – The Lean LaunchPad at Stanford: Class 1

Steve Blank

Over the quarter, teams of students would put the theory to work, using these tools to get out of the building and talk to customer/partners, etc. Start their blog/wiki/journal for the class. While we were going to teach theory and frameworks, these students were going to get a hands-on experience in how to start a new company.

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Inside The New Microsoft Office App Store: One Developer’s Story

ReadWriteStart

Chris Kohlhardt co-founded Gliffy in 2005 to provide an easy way to embed diagrams within wikis, and today users can create org charts, Venn diagrams, flowcharts, floorplans and other diagrams via its Web service, and embed them within Word 2013, Google Docs or Atlassian Confluence. monthly/$49.50 monthly/$99.50 pro tier is also available.

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