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College: Drop Out or Stay In?

Sierra | Posted 12.05.2012 | College
Read More: Inventors, Santa Clara University, Premature, Nigeria, Theil Fellowship, University, Solar Panels, Infants, Princeton, Kenya, College, Incubator, Africa, Dropout, Simi Olabisi, Eden Full, Technology, College News
Sierra

By the time she arrived in Kenya, between her freshman and sophomore years at Princeton, Eden Full had already done the kind of hands-on work that can make a smart, ambitious student wonder whether getting a college degree is all that necessary.

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Seafaring Tech Enterprises

Saul Garlick | Posted 06.27.2012 | Impact
Read More: Social Enterprise, Entrepreneurship, Technology, Incubator, Impact News
Saul Garlick

Just when we thought that creativity and a touch of lunacy (the good kind) had been explored in the entrepreneurship world to the fullest, they pull o...

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The Digital Divide and the Racial Wealth Gap: Why Supporting Minority Business Enterprise is an Answer for Both

David Honig | Posted 05.05.2012 | Technology
Read More: Fcc, Digital Equality, Spectrum Shortage, Distress Sale Policy, Connect to Compete, Business Incubator, Wealth Gap, Racialwealth Gap, Spectrum, Spectrum Crisis, Media Incubator Proposal, Minority Business Enterprises, Mbe, Tax Certificate Policy, Incubator, Federal Communications Commission, Digital Age, Broadband Adoption, Mmtc, Telecom Development Fund, Digital Divide, Minority Media & Telecommunications Council, Spectrum Crunch, Technology News
David Honig

We are currently facing the greatest threat to first class citizenship, competitiveness, economic growth, and moral fiber as a nation since segregation. A deep digital divide exists at a critical point in our nation's history where we are transitioning from an industrial to a digital society.

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Why You Can't Hire

Naval Ravikant | Posted 02.14.2012 | Small Business
Read More: Tech Talent, Startup Hiring, Startup Jobs, Startup, Incubator, Ios, Open Source, Developers, Designers, Startups, Hiring, Jobs, Venture Capital, Vc, Startup Incubator, Amazon, Small Business News
Naval Ravikant

There isn't a shortage of developers and designers. There's a surplus of founders.

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How Fast Can an Unreasonable Idea Grow?

Marc Stoiber | Posted 01.03.2012 | Small Business
Read More: Daniel Epstein, Unreasonable Institute, Virgin, Startup, Incubator, Richard Branson, Green, Environment, Marketing, Social Good, Brand Universe, Kopo Kopo, Small Business News
Marc Stoiber

Unreasonable lives at the convergence of business and belief. Although it exists to bring rational business expertise to startups, there's nothing cold or bloodless about it: "This is not business as usual, this is business unusual."

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Investors Love Top Startup Incubator Graduates

Marty Zwilling | Posted 10.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Business, Startup, Entrepreneur, Incubator, Business Incubator, Business News
Marty Zwilling

Business incubators for sharing services were all the rage back in the days of the dot-com bubble. About that time the bubble burst, causing more than 80 percent of them to disappear. Now they are coming back.

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The End Of The Startup Boom?

Eric Ries | Posted 10.10.2011 | Small Business
Read More: Small Business, Angel Investors, Innovation, Entrepreneurs, Venture Capital, Investors, Investing, Technology Boom, Incubator, Startups, Silicon Valley, Entrepreneurship, Technology, Tech Bubble, Small Business America, Small Business News
Eric Ries

It doesn't matter if you call it a boom or a bubble. The startup business moves in cycles, and what goes up will eventually come down.

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Stanford's Hottest Startups Weigh Value Propositions

Steve Blank | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
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 | Business
Read More: Entrepreneurship, Teaching, Education, Small Business, Groupon, Incubator, It, Customer Development, Marketing, Stanford University, Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship Education, Business Model, Customers, Student Entrepreneurship, Small Business America, Business News
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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Myrtle Isn't Fertile Anymore

Lisa Mirza Grotts | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Clinic, Pfc, Pregnancy, Twins, Miracle, Sperm, Counselor, Hope, Ivf, Carol Simone, Babies, Egg Transfer, Cycle, Serenity, Secondary Infertility, Weight Gain, Viable Eggs, Egg Donor, Religion, Shots, Fertility: IVIG, Adoption, Laboratory, Eggs, Christo Zouves, Obgyn, Acceptance, God, Success, Egg Storage, Parenthood, Egg Sperm = Fertilization = Embryo, Oprah, Conception, Birth Control, Therapist, Pgd, Oocyte, Sterile, Zfc, Incubator, Implantation, Healthy Living News
Lisa Mirza Grotts

Take it from someone who's been there: Trying to conceive a child can be a heartbreaking but fully worthwhile journey, especially when choosing a nontraditional method of conception.

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