Steve Blank

DECEMBER 20, 2011

63 scientists and engineers in 21 teams made 2,000 customer calls in 8 weeks , turning laboratory ideas into formidable startups. The Innovation Corps Startup Team. As the first class settled into their seats at Stanford I wondered if we were going to be able to get them to act like startups. This week we saw the results.

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Where to Play

JULY 18, 2019

Founded by Dr. Amaël Cohades and based on over 12 years of research at EPFL (Switzerland), this startup needs to find the best market opportunity for its innovation. Based on this evaluation, the group recommended the startup to focus on hockey stick manufacturers and try to learn more about this market opportunity.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2010

A caller dialed in to ask us questions about his startup. He was from South America but living in Switzerland and had launched a startup while holding down a day job at a consulting firm (McKinsey if memory serves). I was recently on TWiST with Jason Calacanis. He wanted to raise angel money. I told him to quit his job first.

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Growthink Blog

AUGUST 29, 2010

startups and small businesses. In the last 6 months, we have advised clients and investors, in no particular order, from Kenya, India, Italy, South Africa, Germany, China, Brazil, Mexico, Switzerland, the U.A.E., startups and small businesses. Almost completely shrouded in the anemic U.S. service exports – increasingly from U.S.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 26, 2014

February 4th will see some of the best upcoming startups from around the world congregate in Geneva, Switzerland to determine the winner for the Seedstars World Final competition. Events & Happenings Asia competition Seedstars World Singapore startup'

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2010

You’re on the DS (deferred startup) plan. During this period of time I found ways to get my firm to staff me in Italy, France, Hungary, Switzerland, Belgium, Spain and the UK. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice startup technology vc. I worked for a large multinational for nearly a decade.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 20, 2017

Though the concept of temperature optimized clothing for athletes is nothing new, one startup decided to apply the same concepts of performance enhancing materials and attention to design, to the less competitive arena of your bedroom. Though the startup was founded in Switzerland, the clothes were featured on both Kickstarter and Indiegogo.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The DFINITY Foundation is a Switzerland-based, not-for-profit organization that’s on a mission to develop technology that supports the next generation of the internet. The post DFINITY Is Fastest, Most Scalable General Purpose Blockchain, According to Report appeared first on The Startup Magazine.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

We heard first-hand just how close it was that Facebook had considered locating its headquarters in Switzerland and how the Irish rallied and now host more than 400 jobs locally and growing. I also walked the conference pit a little bit and let random people tell me about their startups. Startup Advice' More on that in moment.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

The German marching band Meute performing at the 2018 SXSW Interactive Innovation Awards The Forrest Four-Cast: Feb 19, 2019 50 of the world’s top startups will be showcased at SXSW Pitch 2019. For 2019, finalists come from Australia, India, Sweden, France, United Arab Emirates, Switzerland, and the UK.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 14, 2019

In my opinion, it is very important that branches and authorities in Switzerland continue to maintain a high level of initial training in watchmaking. The post Resisting Digital Technology in the Swiss Watch Market appeared first on The Startup Magazine.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2018

Any communities wondering how they can take advantage of blockchain in a big way could look to Zug, Switzerland, for advice. The city of 30,000 has become a leader in accepting cryptocurrency and encouraging blockchain startups to call Zug home.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

Heather Brunner, Tim Ferriss, Mayor Adler, Whitney Wolfe, Kendra Scott, Andy Roddick, Rod Favaron, Bijoy, whurley… Here are some of the Austin startup community members that will be on stage who you should show up to support! Austin always has a strong presence at SXSW and this year is no different. Time: 12:30PM?—?1:30PM Time: 2:00PM?—?3:00PM

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Salesforce.com is a startup with 76,000 subscribers (over 2.1M I also joke with Reid Hoffman that this was back in the days before he was “Reid” Reid’s an incredible entrepreneur, startup investor, and human being. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. May 26, 2011.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

TechStars – the Denver/NY based incubator in collaboration with Cooley, LLP , offers an equity financing structure and a debt one, drawing on its experience funding hundreds of startups. SECA – the represnetative body for Switzerland private equity has LP and VC documentation templates, including models: [link] mplates.aspx.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Last summer, Etihad Airways, the United Arab Emirates’ national carrier, joined the many airlines and hotels that have partnered with Switzerland-based Winding Tree to bypass intermediaries using distributed ledger technology. What has the startup experience taught you about life? What is your top goal for Winding Tree for 2020?

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 4, 2011

Online platforms that connect startups and entrepreneurs are common, but one that connects private equity professionals? “ DealMarket has been designed by private equity professionals for private equity professionals,&# says DealMarket co-founder and CEO Celine Fillistorf, who hails from Zurich, Switzerland.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 15, 2016

GEIRs guest lecture in classrooms, advise on entrepreneurial research, and provide mentorship to CU community members developing their own startups. Julien Denaes (Switzerland). We currently have three Colorado Global EIRs. Hector Rodriguez (Spain). Nigel Sharp (England).

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 15, 2010

One in particular was in Switzerland and working for the telco there on a “death march&# project for which several of my friends were already complaining. Tags: Startup Advice. I knew that my request to apply for the Japanese project would fall on deaf ears locally so I knew better than to ask. Naw, that would be hypocritical.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Germany’s NPR station interviewed me that same week, and dozens of articles flooded Germany, Austria, Switzerland, India, the UK, and Canada within a week. My time running a startup has made one thing clear: Don’t stretch a task out longer than necessary.

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VC Cafe

JULY 26, 2017

I’m paraphrasing a bit, but it goes something like this: He was driving through the countryside of Switzerland, and for miles all he saw on the side of the road, was rows of trees. Whatever the organisation (a company, startup, charity, etc) change something and seek differentiation by by breaking the mould and making it better.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

For many of you, this might hit too close to home; after all, a significant number of startups close down in the first year or two of operation. You can travel abroad to countries like Brazil, Switzerland, and Australia; you can hope for admission to a selective and prestigious business school in the U.S.; Which MBAs Matter.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 25, 2017

Today, small businesses and startups have to compete in an increasingly noisy world, against larger, more established businesses. The Matterhorn is a great symbol of Switzerland, and is said to possibly be the inspiration for the shape of the candy bar. To do so, they need to get noticed.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 31, 2022

As part of our Female Founder series , The Startup Magazine caught up with Claudia Freed, CEO of the Wheaton Illinois-based nonprofit EALgreen. The post Female Founder Interview – Claudia Freed, CEO of Non-Profit EALgreen appeared first on The Startup Magazine. As an immigrant student from Argentina, Ms.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 15, 2011

Our new Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment in a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. Vogt Holding), PhD Mechanical Engineering (FAU, Germany), MS Engineering (ETH Zurich, Switzerland. This post is part two. Part one is here. Syllabus here. Personal Libraries.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

We had the founders of leading blockchain startups (including Bitpesa, Parity, and Everledger), prominent lawyers, and corporate executives (including Amber Baldet who leads JP Morgan’s blockchain group) in attendance.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

During this week's roundtable, once again, we had an international group of entrepreneurs presenting from Buenos Aires, Argentina; Warsaw, Poland; Geneva, Switzerland; Sherbrooke, Canada; Oakland, California; and Austin, Texas. In addition, we had attendees from many other parts of the world. You can register to attend here.

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blog.startupsquare.com

APRIL 13, 2010

Skip to content startupSQUARE's blog Get your startup started! 2 Comments Tags: Customer Development , lean startup , pivot , Strategy. note: For those not familiar with the term, pivot is a lean startup vocab word that states in it’s simplest form: If your business model isn’t working, change something.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Headquarters: Zurich, Switzerland. Founded by Monocle magazine publisher Tyler Brûlé, this creative agency makes “brands desirable through elegant visual ideas and a distinctive tone of voice, based on a defined strategic positioning,” according to its website. Locations: Zürich, London, Toronto, New York, Tokyo, Hong Kong.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

I was on the way back to LA from a ski vacation in Switzerland where I decided while sliding down a glacier that if I survived I would start my own advertising agency. We do a lot of B2B and also have an "Early Stage Branding" practice for technology startups. landing pages, etc. Foreign Service.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 19, 2012

The young companies that took the stage Wednesday to kick off the three-day startup fest in Santa Clara, California, demonstrated a surprisingly wide variety of software and Web services. E-Commerce Startups Focus on Video. Nevertheless, among the more than 30 startups that put on demonstrations, some had potential.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

I learned a lot at Convergent, going from product marketing manager in a small startup to VP of Marketing of the Unix Division as it became a public company. If you’re are a startup founder or an early employee, there may come a time in your relationship that your significant other/spouse will ask you the “ what’s more important?

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VC Cafe

JUNE 1, 2011

The International Institute of Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne, Switzerland, in its 2011 World Competitiveness Yearbook ranked Israel in the 17th place among the world’s 59 leading economies in terms of competitiveness. LIMELIGHT BUYS TEL AVIV STARTUP ACCELOWEB. IMD RANKS ISRAEL 17TH MOST COMPETITIVE ECONOMY IN 2011.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Denis is passionate for sharing tips and tricks on startups, online collaboration, and working remotely. A study by the University of Basel, Switzerland in 2012 looked more deeply into the results of the 2006 Canadian study and proved what all tech users know to be commonly true. Denis Duvauchelle is the CEO of Twoodo. 1) Templates.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 11, 2020

Working together, MassChallenge and Stadia expect to give sports tech founders a deep well of resources that hasn’t been readily accessible outside of the traditional tech startup space. And that’s particularly important for the future, because innovations in sports tech often represent the leading edge of innovation.

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BeyondVC

APRIL 23, 2017

Some more technical startups are even building home-grown solutions to solve this problem. In addition, they have 3-4 various systems where customer data resides and separate teams for success and support and marketing are attempting to integrate data for their workflows. Who is Going to Win?

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 17, 2017

MassChallenge calls themselves the most startup-friendly accelerator on the planet. MassChallenge also rewards the highest-impact startups through a competition to win a portion of several million dollars in equity-free cash awards. I’m excited about their addition to the Austin and the Texas startup technology ecosystem.

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