Nine companies showed their stuff at SSE Labs‘ demo day in Palo Alto, Calif., today. SSE Labs is a startup accelerator that is actually now named StartX. The accelerator provides student entrepreneurs with housing, office space, cash stipends, workshops and …
Scvngr, a check-in app that asks users to complete activity challenges, recently launched LevelUp, a pilot in the local deals space. Now it’s offering a deal aimed specifically at entrepreneurs and their startups, dubbed “LevelUp Your Startup.”
Traditionally, local deal …
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(Editor’s note: Doug Collom is vice dean and an adjunct lecturer on venture capital and entrepreneurship for Wharton|San Francisco. He submitted this story to VentureBeat.)
Starting companies is hard. And it’s critical to make sure that your venture is …
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(Editor’s note: Serial entrepreneur Steve Blank is the author of Four Steps to the Epiphany. A longer version of this story originally appeared on his blog.)
As we wrap up 2010, things might seem bleak. The common wisdom …
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(Editor’s note: Jason L. Baptiste is the CEO and co-founder of PadPressed and co-author of the OnStartups blog. This story originally appeared at that site.)
Running a start-up is anything but a life of wine and roses. Seasoned entrepreneurs know …
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(Editor’s note: Jason L. Baptiste is the CEO and co-founder of PadPressed and co-author of the OnStartups blog. This story originally appeared at that site.)
There’s always talk about a startup’s end game – whether it’s in the form of …
Solar leasing company SunRun has emerged as one of the leaders in a white-hot solar market — and it started just three years ago as an idea in the minds of two Stanford business school students.
The company has managed …
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(Editor’s note: Serial entrepreneur Steve Blank is the author of Four Steps to the Epiphany. This column originally appeared on his blog.)
When my students ask me about whether they should be a founder or cofounder of a startup I …
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(Editor’s note: Lewis Drummond is CEO of FledgeWing.com, an online community for entrepreneurial students. He contributed this column to VentureBeat.)
In the mid-1960s, the Kauffman Foundation had the foresight to see the need for an organization promoting entrepreneurship. More than …
Thinking of starting a business or looking for ways to grow your recently launched firm? VentureBeat’s Entrepreneur Corner is filled with expert advice on taking your company to the next level.
Here are a few of the most recent stories …
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Market research vs. gut instinct — Jeff Hawkins, founder of Palm Computing and inventor of the Palm Pilot, discusses how …
In case you’ve missed any of our recent advice for startups over at VentureBeat’s Entrepreneur Corner, here’s a wrap up of the must-read stories. Be sure to click through and check them out:
Harnessing the power of analytics — Too …
While you can’t underestimate the power of a good press release, too many businesses forget that it’s just the beginning of a process. The real trick to successful marketing is ensuring you have all the elements of your public relations …
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Most entrepreneurs rightly focus on revenue generation from new customers. But many do not plan for — or flat out ignore — customer retention and the opportunity it represents.
By your company’s third year, it’s typical that 50 percent of …
