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Designing a Corporate Entrepreneurship Program – A Qualcomm Case Study (part 1 of 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. This is Ricardo’s “post mortem” account of the life and death of a corporate entrepreneurship program. Part 1 outlining the program is here. ———-.

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Designing a Corporate Entrepreneurship Program – A Qualcomm Case Study (part 1 of 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. This is Ricardo’s “post mortem” account of the life and death of a corporate entrepreneurship program. Part 1 outlining the program is here. ———-.

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How To Get Ready To Participate In An Acceleration Program

YoungUpstarts

Acceleration and incubation programs are on the rise and have helped start and scale many successful businesses over the past 10 years. It’s always good to do some background research on the acceleration program as well as the country culture where it is located, previous to submitting your application. Before you apply.

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From Loyalty Programs To Fan Clubs, A Paradigm Shift

YoungUpstarts

Loyalty programs have not changed much since the first airline loyalty cards took off more than 30 years ago. The fact that we can get stuck at this level of soul searching is something that is rarely seen in other industries. We discovered that fan pages on Facebook could become the heart of new generation loyalty programs.

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How to Learn Programming and Launch Your App in 3 Months—with No Programming Experience

Up and Running

Learn programming and build it yourself. For the first year of my startup, I searched for a technical cofounder. How long does it really take to learn programming? Whatever you do, please don’t Google “How long does it take to learn programming?” Hire a freelancer to build your app. like I did.

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Search: Not Provided: What Remains, Keyword Data Options, the Future

Occam's Razor

In late 2011, Google announced an effort to make search behavior more secure. This encrypted their search queries from any prying eyes, and kept from being passed on to websites the users visits after seeing search results. In this post I want to share four angles on secure search: 1. want to protect user privacy.

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Studying Computer Science vs. IT: Which Subject You Should Choose

The Startup Magazine

It also involves the utilization of different programming languages to communicate with computers as well as to develop and design more efficient programs. Difference in classes Another way to decide between computer science and information technology is to look at the different classes both subjects offer.