Entrepreneurship Education

NSF Innovation Corps -- What America Does Best

Steve Blank | Posted 03.30.2012

Read More: I-Corps, Innovation Corps, National Science Foundation, Nsf, Startups, Lean LaunchPad, Stanford, Customer Development, Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship Education, Teaching, Small Business America, Small Business News
Steve Blank

The National Science Foundation Innovation Corps combines the best of what the U.S. government, American researchers in academia and risk capital can do together.

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It's Time to #FixYoungAmerica

Scott Gerber | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Junior Achievement, Startup America, Student Debt, Higher Education, Entrepreneurship Education, #FixYoungAmerica, Student Loans, Young Entrepreneur Council, Self-Employment-Assistance, Unemployment, Millenials, Impact News
Scott Gerber

Youth employment is at a 60-year low. Student loan debt is approaching $1 trillion. Yet young Americans are far more optimistic about our country's future than the pundits would have you believe.

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Free Apps, Ad-Supported Business Models are Dangerous!

Sramana Mitra | Posted 02.29.2012

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Sramana Mitra

At today's roundtable, the last for 2011, we had four different countries represented and an intense set of discussions on five very interesting busin...

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Inner-City Students and Wharton Professor Develop a High School Business Curriculum

Rahilla Zafar | Posted 02.28.2012

Read More: Wharton Business School, Education, University City High School, Philadelphia, Entrepreneurship Education, Promise Academy, Education News
Rahilla Zafar

Two years ago University City High School in Philadelphia was one of the lowest achieving schools in the district -- today it is a Promise Academy offering its students a fresh start and new hope.

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Entrepreneurs' Memoirs: A Gold Mine of Information for Self-Employed Wannabes

Frank Farwell | Posted 02.19.2012

Read More: Business Education, Mentors, Entrepreneurs, Selling a Business, Self-Employed, Entrepreneurship Education, Entrepreneurship, Starting a Business, Working for Yourself, Small Business, Small Business America, Small Business News
Frank Farwell

Entrepreneurial memoirs are a treasure chest of information and entertainment and fit the bill perfectly for all the work-for-yourself wannabes on your holiday list

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The Reckless Folly of Ellsberg's "Will Dropouts Save America?"

Abdulrahman El-Sayed | Posted 12.23.2011

Read More: Entrepreneurs, Education, Higher Education, Entrepreneurship Education, Entrepreneurship, College, Universities, College News
Abdulrahman El-Sayed

Rather than highlighting a small, non-representative minority of college dropouts to misrepresent the importance of education, perhaps it would be better to concentrate on redesigning our higher education system so that it better serves American society.

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The Unsupportive Spouse and Why They Are Killing Your Entrepreneurial Dream

Sophie Gold | Posted 12.11.2011

Read More: Women's Entrepreneurship, Women Entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship Education, Entrepreneurship, Female Entrepreneurs, The Unsupportive Spouse, Communication, Business News
Sophie Gold

Your married, engaged, living with or just really committed to someone that doesn't understand why you choose uncertainty over 'job security.' Sound familiar?

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The Second Act: Learning From Your Initial Success and Failures

Don McNay | Posted 10.22.2011

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Don McNay

"Stick to what you know" seems like common-sense advice, but I have watched many business people make the same mistake I did. Once things start to go well, entrepreneurs think success will last forever.

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How Do You Bootstrap Freemium Ventures?

Sramana Mitra | Posted 10.05.2011

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Sramana Mitra

During this week's roundtable, we had Inoh Choe from San Jose, Calif. pitch DemoTunes, a freemium concept. One of the discussions that ensued was abou...

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Investors and Incubators Need to Look at Pre-Incubation

Sramana Mitra | Posted 10.02.2011

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Sramana Mitra

This week, I've had several meetings with venture funds, incubators, corporate accelerators and other significant players in the startup ecosystem. On...

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Twitter, LinkedIn: Why Not Affiliates?

Sramana Mitra | Posted 07.27.2011

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Sramana Mitra

Finally, we had a discussion on Adam's proposal to sell 20% of his equity for $50K, which I thought was preposterous. That's like selling your prized assets for nothing in a flea market.

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Stanford's Hottest Startups Weigh Value Propositions

Steve Blank | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: It, Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship, Education, Customers, Teaching, Entrepreneurship Education, Business Model, Marketing, Incubator, Business News, Customer Development, Stanford University, Student Entrepreneurship, Small Business America, Small Business, Business News
Steve Blank

Week three of the class and our teams in our Stanford Lean LaunchPad class were hard at work using Customer Development to get out of the classroom and test the first key hypotheses of their business model: The Value Proposition.

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Inside Stanford's Hottest Student Startups

Steve Blank | Posted 05.25.2011

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Steve Blank

The most interesting part of the class would happen outside the classroom when the teams spent 50-80 hours testing their business model hypotheses by talking to customers and partners and (in the case of web-based businesses) building their product.

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Spotlight On The Northwest

Sramana Mitra | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sramana Mitra

At this week's One Million by One Million roundtable, we put a special focus on entrepreneurs in the northwestern part of the United States, and we ha...

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Is Business School Turning Into 'Entrepreneur School'?

Fred Wilson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Fred Wilson

If business school is turning into entrepreneur school, then that's a damn good thing.

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Indian Entrepreneurs Are Maturing

Sramana Mitra | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sramana Mitra

India is a rising power in the entrepreneurship firmament, and the country's entrepreneurs are making a long-awaited switch from pure outsourcing and labor arbitrage to building businesses.

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Personalization Remains an Open Problem

Sramana Mitra | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sramana Mitra

I want to start today with a prayer for Steve Jobs. I just wrote a post on my blog saying, "Apple Doesn't Need Steve Jobs; Tech Industry Does." It sum...

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Top 10 Online Advertising Trends for the Decade

Sramana Mitra | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sramana Mitra

We started this week's One Million by One Million roundtable with a discussion of online advertising trends, looking at them from the perspective of c...

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Social Entrepreneurship Growing Despite (or Perhaps Because of?) Economic Challenges

Rod Shrader | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Entrepreneurship Education, Social Entrepreneurship, B Corporations, I-Go, Chicago Entrepreneurship, College News, Millennial Generation, Chicago News
Rod Shrader

The intersection of the Great Recession and the Millennial Generation has led to an interesting hybrid -- students who want to use the tools of entrepreneurship to improve society and earn a living doing so.

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