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Solvay november 2012 from Fred...

Product solves a problem for a specific target customer Capital-efficient business – operational @ < $1M funding Primarily internet-based distribution – search, social, mobile, location Simple revenue models – transactions, subscriptions or affiliate Functional prototype before...

Donald Valentine, who founded Sequoia in 1972, shares with students from the Stanford Graduate School of Business the investment strategy at Sequoia. Through this talk Donald Valentine asks and provides answers to this simple question : why is Sequoia successful? Key learning “We...

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Key Learnings  “Talking with your customers doesn’t mean doing what your customers ask” [tweet] “Your job in customer development is to figure out if people have the problem your are trying to solve and if they do how deep do they feel about it.” [tweet] “Market segments are...

Some key learnings “act as a team is the single most important predictor of success…There’s nothing more important than how you collaborate and make decisions.”[tweet] “the most important thing is to get your product into the hands of your customers and see what they think...

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Nice interactive infographic from MBA@UNC: Online MBA showing the US startup ecosystem on boath coasts of the country over the last 5...

How to really make something. A great presentation made by Stuart Eccles (@stueccles) and Tim Malbon (@malbonster), founding partners at Made by Many, on how to make something your customers want. Lot’s of great resources and examples on how to use Lean Startup and Design Thinking...

Aaron Patzer, Mint CEO, talks about the history of his startup Mint.

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via youtube.com Summary of the interview with Xavier Damman, co-founder and CEO of Storify  In this third part, Xavier Damman, shares some advice to future entrepreneurs In this part of the interview, Xavier Damman, the co-founder of Storify, speaks about the best way to gather feedback...

via youtube.com Summary of the interview with Xavier Damman, co-founder and CEO of Storify In this third part, Xavier Damman, shares some advice to future entrepreneurs #1 Be Open! You have to share your ideas don’t be afraid that someone will steel it! The more open you are, the more...

via slideshare.net “…of the 26 companies that I consider successful 17 of them made complete transformations or partial transformations of their businesses between the time we invested and the time we sold” Fred Wilson, Union Square...

via youtube.com Second part of the interview with Xavier Damman, co-founder of Storify. In this second part, Xavier speaks about the genesis of Storify and how he spotted the idea for his...

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via youtube.com In this firt part, Xavier Damman presents his company Storify. Xavier Damman is a belgian entrepreneur who moved from Belgium to San Francisco to launch Storify a platform for journalists and bloggers to tell stories using social media...