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Why Real Learning is Outside the Building, Not Demo Day

Steve Blank

We think teaching teams a formal methodology around the Lean Framework (Business Model design, Customer Development and Agile Engineering) is a natural evolution of how successful incubators/accelerators will build startups. Here’s the story of one such team; Jonathan Wylie, Lakshmi Shivalingaiah and the Evoke team.

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Build Predictable Startup Models by Forming an Agency

ReadWriteStart

Startup studios continue to grow in popularity as incubators for new businesses. Forming a digital agency that performs work for clients in addition to incubating startups provides a host of advantages compared to a singularly-focused startup studio. These can then be repeated and improved on with each successive startup.

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International Student Success in Tech – A CTO’s Journey

The Startup Magazine

When he was 21, he came to America to further his education and quickly earned two Masters of Science degrees – the first in Computer Science and the second in Software Engineering. Looking to Solve Problems. Success and Sustainability. Who better to know the needs of students, teachers, and staff than a university?

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Exciting Companies Lined Up For Microsoft Startup Grant Finals

ReadWriteStart

You can read more about Freshdesk on the 1M/1M Incubation Radar today. Bizosys Technologies, a Bangalore, India based software engineering company was founded in 2009. You can also read more about Bizosys on the 1M/1M Incubation Radar today. The company already has paying customers and a validated business model.

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Troubled media sharing startup Color Labs said to be acquired by Apple

The Next Web

Or its software engineering team could be the target, if Apple was impressed by their work. Pham left the startup in June 2011 over unknown reasons and went to work at Los Angeles incubator Science. Color said that it had six patents pending at the time of its funding, including its ‘elastic’ social.

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Finance Fridays

Feld Thoughts

In the mean time, please meet the Finance Fridays team: Jonathan Wolter has been a lead consultant and software engineer at ThoughtWorks working for clients in Silicon Valley, Texas, Chicago, and India. I love working with and mentoring students, and am especially thrilled when they proactively reach out to me.

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NEXT by Startup Weekend in Boulder

Feld Thoughts

During my senior year, I took “Startup Essentials for Software Engineering” (taught by Zach Nies of Rally Software) and I can confidently say it was the best class I ever took at CU. Accelerators and incubators can offer this, but they require you to have your business already in motion and are difficult to get into.

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