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This Weekend

Startup Lessons Learned

The next couple of days are going to be amazing, as the Lean Startup community converges on San Francisco. If you're in town Saturday night, you'll want to stop by Ignite: Lean Startup , a community-run event that features a number of new voices in the Lean Startup community. Co-founder, Backblaze. Founder, Tout.

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

When you support that platform with inspirational and informative subject matter that helps guide people along the way, and then offer them a community of service providers who can help round out their team—well, that’s the ticket. I am founder on an unconventional online gallery, The Art and Craft Gallery. That’s massive.

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Here’s to You, Women in Business

Up and Running

If you’re an active part of your city or town’s community, you may have noticed a sudden spike in the number of activities and events relating to business and entrepreneurship. Finland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark are close runners up, leaving the rest of the world trailing sadly behind. Start a Braintrust.

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Hacking for Diplomacy @ Stanford –What We Learned With the State Department

Steve Blank

Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the State Department, Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies. Teams that just two or three weeks ago seemed to be foundering pulled off some amazing comebacks. This post is a continuation of a series. Lessons Learned – Not a Demo Day.

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10 Companies Want To Show You The Money

YoungUpstarts

by Pabla Ayala, cofounder of pFunk Media Is your holiday gift-giving list becoming longer and pricier than your current wallet can handle? All Lyft drivers must be friendly, community-oriented drivers who love meeting new people, who can pass a phone screen, an in-person meeting and background & DMV record checks. Task Rabbit.

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6 Forward-thinking Businesses That Are Making the World a Better Place

Up and Running

Bonus points for the fact that they partner with the social enterprise Vision Spring to facilitate training for optometrists and eye glass manufacturers in the same countries that they donate glasses to (India, Guatemala, and Bangladesh to name a few), so the communities also receive opportunities for sustainable income.

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Hacking for Diplomacy @ Stanford –What We Learned With the State Department

Steve Blank

Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the State Department, Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies. Teams that just two or three weeks ago seemed to be foundering pulled off some amazing comebacks. This post is a continuation of a series. Lessons Learned – Not a Demo Day.