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Feed SubscriptionDave McClure on Lean Start-up Investing
Dave McClure, the brash-mouthed angel investor and entrepreneur-magnet, shares his lean start-up philosophy and his excitement about female entrepreneurs. The premier session of South by Southwest's "Lean Startup" track was a frank discussion between Lean Startup guru Eric Ries and Dave McClure, founding partner and "Sith Lord" of investment firm 500 Startups . While the talk covered material fairly similar to what Ries discussed in the October issue of Inc.
Read More »A New Cleantech Accelerator, Greenstart, Reveals Its Inaugural Class
Fun apps for your phone aren't the only startups that need financial support. These four companies will now have the opportunity to get funding for their ideas to change the face of energy use. It's a rough world out there for cleantech startups
Read More »Demo Day’s Coolest Ideas
Here's a brief recap of a few of the more creative start-ups (and hair styles) from last evenings Demo Day at General Assembly. Matt Brimmer, co-founder of General Assembly , the location of last night's 500 Startups Demo Day in New York, couldn't announce how many people showed up for the event. Or not that he couldn't, but that he wouldn't—Brimmer didn't want to get in trouble with the landlord for clearly exceeding the office's maximum capacity
Read More »Blackbox’s Startup Genome Compass Uses Science To Crack The "Innovation Code"
Today, Blackbox launched the Startup Genome Compass, a benchmarking tool designed to help entrepreneurs keep track of their startups' progress and know what to do next, based on data from more than 3,200 startups and research from Berkeley and Stanford. Many a bright-eyed entrepreneur heads west hoping to strike it big in the Silicon Valley startup game, yet 94% of them fail
Read More »The Ridesharing Apps That Could Change The Way You Get To Work
Using strangers for rides has yet to catch on in most places, but a bad economy and high gas prices can make almost anything palatable.
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