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Startup Genome project

morreale Wednesday 01 of June, 2011
Entrepreneur and professor Steve blank reports on the finding of the Startup genome project, which analyzed 650 startup to determine what characteristic led to the success of the startup. You can sign up for the full report and take a survey that will benchmark your startup against their database of companies.

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Innovation on a shoestring

morreale Sunday 22 of May, 2011
A NASA manager describes lessons learned on the LCROSS system in this video Innovation on a shoestring. LCROSS is the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite that was crashed into the moon to measure the amount of water on the moon.

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Felicia Day at Innovate2011

morreale Sunday 22 of May, 2011
Felicia Day, creator of The Guild, is a special guest at IBM's Innovate2011 conference June 5-9 In Orlando, FL. The Guild is a wonderful series and can be streamed from Netflix now. Season 5 just wrapped. I'm fascinated by the interaction of technology with media and society. They seem to be interact like matter and gravity with technology being entwined in everything now. In time, everyone will be an entrepreneur and a tech geek.

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Democratization of Entrepreneurship

morreale Monday 16 of May, 2011
Steve Blank is a serial entrepreneur and taught this very informative entrepreneurship lecture Democratization of Entrepreneurship at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He says that startups are business that are looking for business models that can scale into large companies. Startup, however, are not small versions of large companies. They operate in a completely different way than large company so large company approach usually cause startups to fail. He describe a method to develop and iterate business models, which is available in the book Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers by Alexander Osterwalder.

Funding Roadmap

morreale Monday 16 of May, 2011
New companies and startups should check out Funding Roadmap that helps create and track business plans. The resulting business plan is SBA compliant for lenders and funders.

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