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Harvard Professor Finds That Innovative Ideas Spread Like The Flu; Here's How To Catch Them
17 January 2013
Network science reveals just how innovation--much like the dreaded flu bug sweeping the nation--is contagious. Here's where you need to position yourself to catch one (and maybe avoid the other).
Social Entrepreneurship: A Fundamental Game Changer
10 January 2013
Social Entrepreneurship has changed the way social change takes place. The change has three primary differentiating features: the blurring of the demarcation of profit and non-profit; the emphasis on impact and efficacy; and the sense of urgenct and need to scale.
Steve Blank: Lessons From 35 Years of Making Startups Fail Less
20 December 2012
Silicon Valley entrepreneurs are famous for embodying a risk-taking ethos. But even among these iconoclastic thinkers, Steve Blank has an unusual tale. An Air Force veteran and college dropout, he's currently on the third act of his career as a founder of the Lean Startup movement, which is a disruptive philosophy centered around building startups by focusing on the customer first and the technology second. The technique has been used by companies like Dropbox, AirBnB, and IMVU to help build remarkable products
Steve now speaks often about the Lean Startup ethos and entrepreneurialism as inspired by decades of being a serial entrepreneur. He's crashed and burned some, but he's also credited with four IPOs.
Can Schools Teach Entrepreneurship?
20 December 2012
Entrepreneurs are never born, only created. If you really think about it, entrepreneurship is a mindset and that mindset has to be a lifestyle—when you "own" it, you can run with any idea. So can schools actually teach entrepreneurship?
Marc Andreessen: Not Every Startup Should Be A Lean Startup Or Embrace The Pivot
7 December 2012
The Lean Startup philosophy and Marc Andreessen are themselves two institutions in Silicon Valley, so when one weighs in on the other, it’s good to take note. The famed investor spoke Monday about his three pet peeves in investor pitches, most of which are related to entrepreneurs misappropriating or misusing the Lean Startup approach, an approach that encourages quick scaling to achieve success.
