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Innovating Elder Care: How Startups Are Addressing Abuse in Nursing Homes

The Startup Magazine

As the global population ages, the demand for quality elder care has never been greater. Identifying the Problem: Abuse in Nursing Homes Elder abuse in nursing homes is a pervasive issue that demands urgent attention.

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10,000 Startups – Startup Weekend Next

Steve Blank

The class teaches founders how to dramatically reduce their failure rate through the combination of business model design, customer development and agile development using the Startup Owners Manual. More importantly, it makes no demands of you to stand and deliver your weekly customer development progress in front of your peers.

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Welcome To The New Wave Of Opportunities And Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

Existing technologies have been “commoditized” globally. Having only a large capital base and distribution channels, with no innovation, is not a sustainable business model. Non-industrial large organizations cling to outdated business models. The new corporate model is a distributed entrepreneurial model.

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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

Both Sides of the Table

And we wanted a head of global marketing. He had an idea for a startup that would help consumers better book service jobs and would take on Service Magic, which he believed had a business model that could be disrupted. I was preparing to move back to the US from London after 11 years abroad. The company was called Red Beacon.

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Entrepreneurs Can Revitalize The Image Of Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Existing technologies have been “commoditized” globally. Having only a large capital base and distribution channels, with no innovation, is not a sustainable business model. Non-industrial large organizations cling to outdated business models. The new corporate model is a distributed entrepreneurial model.

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How DogVacay Literally Saved my Thanksgiving

Both Sides of the Table

DogVacay is part of a new global movement some people are calling “ Collaborative Consumption.” Their business model was to help young companies accelerate their launch by helping assemble a team, do initial marketing, provide seed capital and help them raise financing. Supply and demand. Like oDesk.

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Customer Development in Japan: a History Lesson

Steve Blank

These kinds of success cases continue to happen in Japan’s startup community and in corporations that have to innovate to remain competitive in the global market. Some have actually established new startups with tested business model hypotheses under their belt. I am confident we will see real startups and business emerge soon.

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