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How companies strangle innovation – and how you can get it right

Steve Blank

Instead of having a committee vet ideas, they needed a process that operated with speed and urgency, and innovators and stakeholders who curated and prioritized their own problems/idea/technology. A canonical Lean Innovation process inside a company or government agency would look something like this: Curation. As the head of the U.S.

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

Steve Blank

It was designed to bring together many of the new approaches to building a successful startup – customer development, agile development, business model generation and pivots. Startups are in fact only temporary organizations, organized to search –not execute–for a scalable and repeatable business model.

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

At Kindred Bravely, we have two goals: creating maternity and nursing clothes that are beautiful, useful, and comfortable, and building a community of moms who support and encourage each other on the motherhood journey. And “aesthetic” was a word the theatre community used all the time – I honestly just loved how it sounded!

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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

Eliminating middlemen in healthcare – from using AI to automate repetitive human jobs to exploring new and better business models for providing care. Social Hybrid AI x human communities – messaging & social apps where bots are treated as equal citizens.

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8 Challenges For Startups With A Neighborhood Focus

Startup Professionals Musings

There is also more going on in every location, so this personal need and super sensitivity to the local community has spawned a new breed of Internet startups, called “hyperlocal.” The term first appeared at least ten years ago, but the model is now very common. Building content is costly and time-consuming. This is not just a fad.

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How To Create Buzz Around Your Startup

David Teten

These conferences are not only a great way to raise your startup’s profile, they also serve as valuable networking opportunities within the tech/VC community. For another useful guide on how to gain PR from high-profile startup conferences, check out Conference Tips For Startups and 15 Tips from Keith Ferrazzi, Conference Commando.

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StartupRoar.com – A Source Of Aggregated, Curated Entrepreneurial Content

YoungUpstarts

You’ll find content categorized into different topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others.