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[Event] [Singapore] Mobile Flea Market App Snapsell Wins Startup Weekend Singapore 2012

YoungUpstarts

Startup Weekend Singapore 2012 participants. Throughout the weekend, about 15 mentors came by to coach the teams in refining their business models, sharing best practices in application development, as well as fine-tuning their pitches during the final prototype presentation on Sunday evening.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

When I was graduated from university in 1991 it was only the really committed who eschewed the corporate world for creating tech startup businesses. But in 2012 a visit to any major college in America will show you the massive increase in aspirations of our young talent to become the next Mark Zuckerberg and build a future Facebook.

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Will Your Startup Get Venture Capital or IPO in 2013?

Startup Professionals Musings

Based on the final report for 2012 from Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), it may appear that IPOs are back as a viable startup exit strategy. For the full year 2012, venture-backed initial public offerings raised $21.5 Follow with a killer executive summary, investor presentation, and financial model.

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The Big Bang. The Lean LaunchPad explodes at University of Maryland

Steve Blank

Over 44 classes have embedded the business model canvas and/or Customer Discovery including a year-long course taken by every single one of its bioengineering majors. In 2012, we applied for and then were awarded a grant from NSF to do just that. It’s made a big bang. When Steve and NSF created the I-Corps™.

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What Makes A Successful Franchisee?

YoungUpstarts

Staying disciplined and focused at the business at hand, and following the model, will help a franchise owner achieve success. Determining the most effective business model is an important first step to ensure company success. Unfortunately, if your business model fails, , so does your business.

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Crowdsourcing Hope With Online Donation Platform GoFundMe

YoungUpstarts

The company has seen 20% average monthly growth in the last year, is on track to handle $3 million in donations this August alone, and projects a total of nearly $40 million in 2012. But online payment technology didn’t catch up with their vision, until now.

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Introducing Lean Planning: How to plan less and grow faster

Up and Running

Lean Planning is a set of tools for discovering a business model that works, building an action plan to test your assumptions, creating financial models and a plan for a viable business, and tracking your performance so you can adjust your plan on the fly, quickly and easily. Do startups have a manual?

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