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Designing a corporate entrepreneurship program

by Steve Blank, February 8, 2013 | Comments

	A Qualcomm case study (Part 1 of 2) I ran into Ricardo Dos Santos and his amazing Qualcomm Venture Fest a few years ago and was astonished with its breath and depth. From that day on, when I got asked about which corporate innovation program had the best process for idea selection, I started my list with Qualcomm. This is Ricardo’s “post mortem” account of the life and ...
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Don't underestimate the undergraduates

by Steve Blank, January 29, 2013 | Comments

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Lessons in teaching Lean LaunchPad at Princeton

Jim Hornthal splits his time between venture capital, entrepreneurship and education. Jim has founded six companies, including Preview Travel, one of the first online travel agencies, which went public in 1997 and subsequently merged to createTravelocity.com as an independent company. Today he is the co-founder and Chairman of Triporati, LaunchPad Central. And Zignal Labs. Jim co-taught classes with me at U.C. Berkeley, joined ...

The endless frontier

by Steve Blank, January 23, 2013 | Comments

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U.S. Science and National Industrial Policy (Part 1)

The U.S. has spent the last 70 years making massive investments in basic and applied research. Government funding of research started in World War II driven by the needs of the military for weapon systems to defeat Germany and Japan. Post WWII, the responsibility for investing in research split between agencies focused on weapons development and space exploration (being completely customer-driven) and other ...

Ways to get people to do things they don't want to do

by Nir Eyal, January 18, 2013 | Comments

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Use behavior design, including progressive disclosure and purposeful incentives

A reader recently asked me a pointed question: “I’ve read your work on creating user habits. It’s all well and good for getting people to do things, like using an app on their iPhone, but I’ve got a bigger problem. How do I get people to do things they don’t want to do?” Taken aback by the directness and potentially ...

Lessons learned in a company turnaround

by David Jakubowski, January 8, 2013 | Comments

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Five lessons learned from salvaging Aggregate Knowledge and spinning it into a success

Very few CEOs walk into a new company faced with the challenges inherent in a turnaround situation. Generally, there are various events that have led up to the current situation of the company, and someone is brought in to salvage what is already there, put a new spin on it, and turn it into a huge success. This sounds great. ...

Top 10 lessons learned articles in 2012

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, December 27, 2012 | Comments

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Why Facebook is killing the Valley; How Instagram hooked users; The Darwinian evolution of a startup

While 2010 and 2011 were the most recent years in which entrepreneurs had the upper hand over venture capitalists as more money came into the startup system, thanks to new funds and angels, 2012 was the year in which the money started drying up. As Steve Loeb wrote earlier, there could be about 1000 seed-funded deals orphaned in the next ...

The future of corporate innovation and entrepreneurship

by Steve Blank, December 10, 2012 | Comments

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Continuous disruption will be the norm for corporations in the 21st century

Almost every large company understands it needs to build an organization that deals with the ever-increasing external forces of continuous disruption, the need forcontinuous innovation, globalization and regulation. But there is no standard strategy and structure for creating corporate innovation. We outline the strategy problem in this post and will propose some specific organizational suggestions in follow-on posts. I’m sitting at the ranch ...

Sheila Marcelo on the importance of thinking long term

by Faith Merino, December 7, 2012 | Comments

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Care.com CEO Sheila Marcelo talks about long-term relationships

At our Vator Splash NY event this week, Care.com CEO Sheila Marcelo delivered a riveting keynote address on the particulars of branding. And with Care.com now active in some 18 countries, Marcelo knows a bit about branding. One of her rules: think long term. It seems obvious—if you’re building a company, of course you’re thinking long term. But Marcelo didn’t mean ...

Sheila Marcelo on building the right team

by Faith Merino, December 6, 2012 | Comments

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Marcelo tells entrepreneurs to pick team members based on what you should be, not what you could be

Finding a caregiver is a daunting task, because no matter what kind of credentials they have or how many CPR and first aid classes they’ve taken, you’re still ultimately looking for someone who looks like they won’t shake your baby. I’ve found that person on Care.com, and I love her so much that I’m thinking of asking her to be ...

Jeremy Allaire's keys to building great companies

by Steven Loeb, December 6, 2012 | Comments

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Hire slow and fire fast, VCs should be long-term partners, and M&A deals are "acts of violence"

Vator brought its popular Splash to Manhattan this week. Kicking off Vator Splash NY on Wedneday night was Brightcove CEO Jeremy Allaire, who shared his lessons he had learned in “building great companies," including how to build a team, what to consider when raising capital and how to know hire, and fire, the right people. The founder’s vision “Great companies are built on broad, ...

Sheila Marcelo tells NY startups to "be authentic"

by Faith Merino, December 5, 2012 | Comments

	Marcelo explains at Vator Splash NY that branding is about building relationships I think I have a feminist crush on Sheila Marcelo. The CEO of Care.com flew in from the UK to speak at Vator Splash NY (her plane literally landed an hour before Splash started, and she looked fresher and more awake than I do on a weekend). She came to the event with a few key points on branding inside ...
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Fundraising 101: Pitch other startup CEOs for practice

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, December 3, 2012 | Comments

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Motif's Hardeep Walia shares his lessons learned as an entrepreneur

When someone raises $27 million, it typically means they're pretty savvy about building startups venture capitalists are interested in funding. That's why we asked Hardeep Walia, the founder and CEO of Motif, to share his lessons. Motif is a next-generation retail investment platform. Walia had some pretty solid lessons to share: 1) Understand what you're getting into. Most entrepreneurs don't ...

Open source entrepreneurship

by Steve Blank, November 28, 2012 | Comments

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Free and almost free resources for startups of all stripes

One of the great things about being a retired entrepreneur is that I get to give back to the community that helped me. I assembled this collection of free and almost free tools, class syllabi, presentations, books, lectures, videos in the hope that it can make your path as an entrepreneur or educator easier. Free: Startup Tools If you’re building ...

Careers start by peeling potatoes

by Steve Blank, November 23, 2012 | Comments

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There's no shortcut for getting your hands dirty

Listening to my the family talk about dividing up the cooking chores for this Thanksgiving dinner, including who would peel the potatoes, reminded me that most careers start by peeling potatoes. KP – Kitchen patrolOne of the iconic punishments in basic training in the military was being threatened by our drill instructors of being assigned to KP – Kitchen Patrol ...

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