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Beyond the Lemonade Stand: How to Teach High School Students Lean Startups

Steve Blank

Their seniors just completed the school’s first-ever 3-credit semester program in evidence-based entrepreneurship. By the end of the half hour, students were suggesting that our school should offer more programming earlier in school and throughout this course. Hawken School has now given us an answer. Customer Development Teaching'

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

Another topic we debated early in the program was “lean startup” vs. “ fat startup ” where we both took the obvious hedge and said “it depends.” Platform that provides radio music programming via crowd sourced contributions from social community; programming is syndicated nationally.

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Why LP’s Passed on Seed Funds 10 Years Ago (And What’s Happened Since)

View from Seed

In turn, some funds have a more friendly posture towards us and try to structure deals that incentive syndicate investors in a way that doesn’t massively disadvantage the seed investors. We help surface seed companies to them and typically don’t compete against them for new rounds or for follow-on dollars.

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Supporting HBCUvc’s VC Lab and Fund

Feld Thoughts

HBCUvc is seeking to expand its VC Lab and Fund program that invests in Black, Indigenous, and Latinx entrepreneurs building technology companies. The fund is managed by university students participating in HBCUvc’s Fellowship programs. She asked me to support the expansion of HBCUvc’s VC Lab and Fund.

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Where would I go to invest in startups or emerging companies?

Gust

This will be changing next year, however, because of a new law called the JOBS Act of 2012 , which establishes a new, limited type of Crowdfunding for small companies and non-Accredited investors. Once the U.S. original post can be found on Quora @ [link] *.

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10 Ways To Win In 2014: An Entrepreneurs’ Guide To A Successful Startup

YoungUpstarts

And finally, in Darwinian fashion, competition for market share amongst the venture capitalists as a result of increased numbers of angel investment syndicates will clear the decks of the low-value add venture capital dollars. All of these attributes will effectively benefit the entrepreneurial community.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Niche Marketplace Businesses Can Be Interesting

ReadWriteStart

During this week's roundtable, one of the questions that I answered was about the One Million by One Million program's plans around supporting social enterprises. Next Annette McClellan presented DaisyClip , a non-surgical contraception device for women that she is in the process of syndicating a $1.8 million financing round for.

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