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The SOBCon Manifesto

Terry Starbucker

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full The SOBCon Manifesto by Starbucker on March 25, 2010 I am one of the founders of SOBCon , a venture that started in 2007. steveracer April 22, 2010 at 10:19 pm Awesome Terry. I am so looking forward to coming this year!

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Should Big Companies Give Up on Innovation?

Harvard Business Review

A few years ago a start-up team taking the “Design for Extreme Affordability” course at Stanford University’s design school developed an innovative way to incubate premature newborns for a fraction of the cost of the $20,000 machines that populate most Western hospitals.

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All Hail the Failure Sector

Harvard Business Review

And no sector is complete without its own conference. FailCon 2010 took place on October 25th in San Francisco. Lisa Gansky , in her new book The Mesh , provides a forty-page list of organizations designed for resource sharing. The startup sector has its own growing newspaper (online, of course): Xconomy.

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What BMW’s Corporate VC Offers That Regular Investors Can’t

Harvard Business Review

Among the 30 top companies in seven of the largest industries, almost half had a VC-fueled accelerator in 2015, up from just 2% in 2010. As a result, top founders prefer independent, noncorporate accelerators, and, to date, no corporate accelerator has truly accomplished incubating world-class startups.