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Sandbox Stories: The Startup Genome Report. By Bjoern Lasse Herrmann and Max Marmer.

Monday, May 30th, 2011

What makes internet startups succeed or fail? Sandboxers Bjoern Lasse Herrmann and Max Marmer wanted to know. Their long awaited Startup Genome Report was just released and uncovers some of the secrets on how to launch and maintain a successful company.

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Theme #6: Innovation in Higher Education

Tuesday, May 10th, 2011

Innovation in higher education (post-secondary education) is a hot topic amongst entrepreneurs today. There number of businesses are trying to capitalize on shortcomings in the existing system, whether it is by improving the quantity and quality of learning material available (the Kahn Academy offers a large variety of tutoring videos) or by implementing new interactive [...]

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Theme #5: Incubation

Tuesday, May 10th, 2011

Entrepreneurship has changed. While companies used to be started by Bill and Steve in their garages not too long ago, today’s young companies are more frequently born out of incubator programs, where several teams with an idea live, work and develop their ideas together in the same place over the course of several months. It [...]

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Theme #4: Digital Intimacy

Tuesday, May 10th, 2011

Social media, the web 2.0 – whatever you want to call the fundamental change in the Internet landscape in the last 6 or 7 years – is not news anymore. In fact, looking back it is astonishing how quickly many of these online platforms have become deeply ingrained in our daily lives. Does anyone remember [...]

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