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A Canvas That Tells a Story: KISS Canvas (v5.0)

Paul G. Silva

30-page business plans are great for established businesses and terrible for startups that need to iterate quickly. 15+ years ago the Business Model Canvas (BMC) changed everything by giving us a 1-pager to help quickly document and test the key hypothesis behind our business models. The BMC was a quantum leap forward.

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This is the Dumbest Op Ed I’ve Read in a While

Both Sides of the Table

I try to speak at universities, high schools, startup accelerators?—?as It was a sufficient barrier and we developed social graces. Sometimes when I speak at conferences I’ll stay and shake hands for 2 hours with anybody who wants to say hello. as much as my schedule will allow. Email is a to-do box that others get to add to.

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VC Lab introduces free fund formation documents to make startup investing cheaper and easier

TechCrunch

Today, VC Lab is providing a set of freely available boilerplate documents intended to streamline the process, save everyone time and money and make fund governance structures more accessible. “We Similar fund formation documents regularly run into the hundreds of pages. The concepts are there but the lawyer verbiage is gone.”.

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K-Startup Grand Challenge 2022: The world’s most tech-savvy country South Korea invites startups to grow their businesses

AsiaTechDaily

The biggest accelerator program, sponsored by the Korean government, supported by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups (MSS), and organized by the National IT Industry Promotion Agency (NIPA), will be held for 3.5 The participating startups come from various countries across Europe, North America, and Southeast Asia.

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How to find a Technical Co-Founder for your Startup

Entrepreneur's Handbook

A quick glance into founder dating sites or startup accelerator applicant pools you will see that in most cases the tech founders are outweighed by at least 10 to 1. Granted if you are developing a new cancer treatment then you will likely need to be quite technical with biology! This really depends on what you are building.

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Practical Metrics and Methods: ESHIP Goal 5 – Part 1

Ecosystem Builder Hub

Practical Metrics and Methods (Practitioner Edition): Identify and develop better metrics and methods for ecosystem building. Collaborative research focused on developing the field of ecosystem building would allow the field to identify the principles and practices that are most effective for fostering successful entrepreneurship.

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42Maru’s CEO D.K. Donghwan KIM’s quest to find all ‘Answers’ led to the establishment of a successful startup

AsiaTechDaily

42Maru is an AI deep-tech startup that develops a Deep Semantic QA (Question Answering) Platform that understands the true intention of a user’s question to provide ‘Single Specific Answer’ from an extensive unstructured data set. Moreover, many Techstars selected startups have grown up into unicorn / decacorn.

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