Since 2005 startup accelerators have provided cohorts of startups with mentoring, pitch practice and product focus. However, accelerator Read More
Is This Startup Ready for Investment?
Business to Business Business to Consumer Education Entrepreneurship from entrepreneurs How to build a product Lessons and advice
How to be Smarter Than Your Investors
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Character Education Entrepreneurship from entrepreneurs Launching a business Lessons and advice Team building
Sometimes it Pays to Be a Jerk
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Business to Business Business to Consumer Entrepreneurship Financing and fundraising from entrepreneurs Lessons and advice Venture capital
Engineering a regional tech cluster
Dino Vendetti a VC at Bay Partners, moved up to Bend, Oregon on a mission to engineer Bend Read More
Business models/plans Business to Business Business to Consumer Education Entrepreneurship from entrepreneurs How to build a product Launching a business Lessons and advice Team building
Time for Founders School
Having a film crew in your living room for two days is something you want to put on Read More
Business to Business Business to Consumer Entrepreneurship Financial and Legal Financing and fundraising from entrepreneurs Lessons and advice Venture capital
Early-stage regional venture funds
Dino Vendetti a VC at Bay Partners, moved up to Bend, Oregon on a mission to engineer Bend Read More
Business models/plans Business to Business Business to Consumer Entrepreneurship from entrepreneurs Lessons and advice
Do Pivots Matter?
There’s a sign on the wall but she wants to be sure
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Biotech/Life Sciences Business to Business Business to Consumer Education Entrepreneurship from entrepreneurs Health and Medical How to build a product Launching a business Lessons and advice
Lessons Learned in Diagnostics
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Biotech/Life Sciences Business to Business Business to Consumer Education Entrepreneurship from entrepreneurs Health and Medical How to build a product Launching a business Lessons and advice
Lessons Learned in Therapeutics
This post is part of our series on the National Science Foundation I-Corps Lean LaunchPad class in Life Science and Read More
Biotech/Life Sciences Business to Business Business to Consumer Education Entrepreneurship from entrepreneurs Health and Medical How to build a product Launching a business Lessons and advice
Lessons Learned in Medical Devices
This post is part of our series on the National Science Foundation I-Corps Lean LaunchPad class in Life Science and Read More
Biotech/Life Sciences Business to Business Business to Consumer Education Entrepreneurship from entrepreneurs Health and Medical How to build a product Launching a business Lessons and advice
Lessons Learned in Digital Health
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How to spend the next four years of your life
As our Lean LaunchPad for Life Sciences class winds down, a good number of the 26 teams are trying to Read More
Biotech/Life Sciences Business models/plans Entrepreneurship from entrepreneurs Launching a business Lessons and advice
When customers make you smarter
We talk a lot about Customer Development, but there’s nothing like seeing it in action to understand its Read More
Biotech/Life Sciences Entrepreneurship from entrepreneurs How to build a product Launching a business Lessons and advice
Lean LaunchPad for Life Sciences
We’re teaching a Lean LaunchPad class for Life Sciences and Health Care (therapeutics, diagnostics, devices and digital health) at UCSF Read More
Biotech/Life Sciences Entrepreneurship from entrepreneurs How to build a product Launching a business Lessons and advice
Well They ‘Should’ Be Our Customers
When scientists and engineers who’ve been working in the lab for years try to commercialize their technology they Read More