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Startup Compass

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Privly · Welcome STVP : Teaching : Resources Browse our collection of entrepreneurship education resources to find information regarding lesson ideas, building your own entrepreneurship center, and professional networking within the entrepreneurship education community. Lesson Planning TextbooksSuggested texts for teaching entrepreneurship Launching New Ventures: An Entrepreneurial Approach Allen, Kathleen R. [Code 764] Entrepreneurship: Successfully Launching New Ventures Barringer, Bruce R.; Ireland, R. Duane [Code 1435] Technology Ventures: From Idea to Enterprise Byers, Thomas H.; Dorf, Richard C.; Nelson, Andrew J. [Code 803] Entrepreneurship Bygrave, William D.; Zacharakis, Andrew [Code 772] Entrepreneurship, 7/e Hisrich, Robert D.; Peters, Michael P.; Shepherd, [Code 315] Patterns of Entrepreneurship Kaplan, Jack M. Building a Center Accel REE Conference Archives A listing of past international Roundtables on Entrepreneurship Education (REE). Networking

FrontPage Money for the Masses Earlier this month, a Silicon Valley mobile startup called Loopt was acquired for $43 million. Even though Loopt had only a relatively modest user base, it was well known among the tech cognoscenti. But the same wasn’t true of the acquiring company. Who exactly, wondered many writers, was this outfit called “Green Dot”? In fact, Green Dot is something of an industry giant, an 11-year-old payments company with 4.5 million active customers who used it to complete $16 billion in transactions last year. If it was unknown to many otherwise well-informed tech observers, it’s because the company is targeting a market that, despite its size, is often invisible to the affluent elite whom tech companies usually cater to. Green Dot is the biggest example of a new breed of financial-services company that aims extremely sophisticated technology at what might seem like a singularly unpromising demographic: the estimated 60 million American considered “underbanked.”

How To Build a Web Startup – Lean LaunchPad Edition If you’re an experienced coder and user interface designer you think nothing is easier than diving into Ruby on Rails, Node.js and Balsamiq and throwing together a web site. (Heck, in Silicon Valley even the waiters can do it.) But for the rest of us mortals whose eyes glaze over at the buzzwords, the questions are, “How do I get my great idea on the web? What are the steps in building a web site?” And the most important question is, “How do I use the business model canvas and Customer Development to test whether this is a real business?” My first attempt at helping students answer these questions was by putting together the Startup Tools Page - a compilation of available web development tools. So today, I offer my next attempt. How To Build a Web Startup – The Lean LaunchPad Edition Here’s the step-by-step process we suggest our students use in our Lean LaunchPad classes. (Use the Startup Tools Page as the resource for tool choices) Step 1: Set Up Team Logistics Step 2. For non-coders:

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