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Design Museum Boston

Up and Running

” That was the question one of my students asked me three years ago when I quietly told him my plan to start a design museum in Boston with my friend and business partner, Derek Cascio. We now have an incredible network of spaces, partners, and supporters. “How the hell do you start a design museum?” Stay tuned!).

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Philosopher Versus MBA

Reid Hoffman

Greylock Partners · Reid Hoffman | Philosopher Versus MBA. If they don’t have the right skills or resources, they’ll pick them up along the way by hiring someone, partnering with someone, or just learning it themselves. I was still unprepared; I had no idea that I also needed to learn about go-to-market strategy and distribution.

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Philosopher Versus MBA

Reid Hoffman

Greylock Partners · Reid Hoffman | Philosopher Versus MBA. If they don’t have the right skills or resources, they’ll pick them up along the way by hiring someone, partnering with someone, or just learning it themselves. I was still unprepared; I had no idea that I also needed to learn about go-to-market strategy and distribution.

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The Class That Changed the Way Entrepreneurship is Taught

Steve Blank

In 1985 the University of Miami held the first national business plan competition. Business plans presume that building a startup is a series of predictable steps requiring execution of a plan which assumes a series of known facts: known customers, known features, known pricing, known distribution channel.

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10 Scientific Facts About Successful Teams

YoungUpstarts

After all, as a supplement to textbooks and lectures, it allows participants to pull from their strengths and reach out to partners with complementary weaknesses. It makes sense that knowledge retention would increase in a collaborative setting, though. The most effective teams have worked together before. Surprise, surprise, right?

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Out of the Crisis #17: Max Henderson on Covid Act Now, exponential growth, and how to help

Startup Lessons Learned

Max Henderson : distributed around the country and the world. And so, I agreed that I would do that, and I partnered with my other founders, Zack, Igor, and Jonathan. They met in Miami which is, I guess, where a Cuban and a German would be. Max Henderson : Yeah, of course, thank you so much for having me, Eric.

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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

These are all potential customers and strategic partners for startups. In short, the first wave of internet companies were widely distributed and brought people online (AOL in Virginia, Microsoft in Albuquerque and Seattle, Dell in Austin, etc.) More than 50 Fortune 500 companies are headquartered in Texas and six of the Fortune 50.

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