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

Steve Blank

The Lean LaunchPad process is equally well-suited to areas like STEM education and government (e.g., Now the students spend time in customer discovery and learn why validating the business model for their device is so important. The impact on life sciences and healthcare is evident in the UMD bioengineering program and in the NIH program.

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Steps to Create a Nonprofit Social Media Policy

Board Effect

You also need to incorporate wording for disciplinary action or termination when social media posts warrant action. Bloomerang provides a good sample of a nonprofit social media policy to emulate, and it’s a fine example of good social media governance. Assign someone the task of investigating social media policy infractions.

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Letter to Carmen Ortiz about Aaron Swartz

Andrew Payne

The use of Secret Service resources, the home search warrant, the discovery refusal to provide raw hard drive images, the superseding indictment, and the reported plea negotiations & constraints; these all signal that Swartz’s acts were extremely serious, worthy of government resources.

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Pay non-cash incentives to service providers?    

Berkonomics

Use stock options and warrants to pay for service only rarely. Service providers as web designers, public relations firms, even venture banks granting loans, often offer higher value services for a lesser amount of cash and some amount of stock options or warrants (written promises to sell stock at a set price for a future period in time).

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How to Recruit Board Members in a Remote Environment

Board Effect

If you haven’t, now is a good time to do it because the current circumstances may warrant some changes to it. As you reach out to candidates, be sure to give them a copy of the approved job description for board members. You should be reviewing board member job descriptions regularly anyway.

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“One Thing You Wish People Better Understood About Venture Capital” – Part IV, featuring Diana Kimball Berlin, Jake Gibson, Jesse Middleton, Adam Nelson and Nikhil Basu Trivedi.

Hunter Walker

A common misconception is that building a tech company automatically warrants venture capital, and vice versa. It will govern their behavior as you determine whether or not to partner, and for the years to come thereafter. These businesses might not make immediate sense on the surface.

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Letter to Carmen Ortiz about Aaron Swartz

Andrew Payne

The use of Secret Service resources, the home search warrant, the discovery refusal to provide raw hard drive images, the superseding indictment, and the reported plea negotiations & constraints; these all signal that Swartz’s acts were extremely serious, worthy of government resources.