benhallen

Dempsey Professor of Strategy & Entrepreneurship University of Washington. Studying scaling, accelerators, and the Mighty Middle

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I am excited to share my newest piece in Harvard Business Review on "What Sets Successful Startup Accelerators Apart": https://t.co/4BwZpiLLvk

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@orgRem @marxmatt @klaviyo @edhallen Huge congrats to @edhallen on this and great to have seen the journey along the way! (And thinking back to some early coding prototypes he did while visiting our London flat before we had any furniture)

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Big thanks for @tak_lo for being a fantastic guest speaker today at LBS's Financing the Entrepreneurial Business

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Big thanks to @jeffseedrs for being a guest lecturer in my entrepreneurial finance class, talking about @Seedrs, and trends in crowdfunding

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Sorry to see the passing of Prof. Hutchinson at UVA; His ERICA eye tracking company was the first startup I worked at http://t.co/QgG2KwA2CS

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NYT on lead bible app - interesting illustration of business model innovation and building ecosystem of partners: http://t.co/cM3NCiYMxw

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Zynga announces layoffs. Fascinating / scary how newly public companies are increasingly facing disruptive threats http://t.co/zoBvoEYriQ

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Great article by @joshuareeves in WSJ on tapping into an entrepreneurial ecosystem: http://t.co/0FqdS5Ki9I

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Great time to be I-Banker in tech. Yahoo submits bid for Hulu: http://t.co/bFh6bJ3PJq

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Was Yahoo's Summly acquisition part of locking up access to other IP they were buying? http://t.co/61DbmuSDll

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Crowdfunding brings to mind Huggy Rao' work on social movements and how company's can leverage these movements: http://t.co/hLhBISSeNJ

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Fascinating to watch movie studios now using crowdfunding for Veronica Mars movie. Has raised nearly $1M on 1st day http://t.co/xaBxlddOby.

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Terrific! Google Glass: prototyped using binder clips and clay http://t.co/lHXGpuv9OT via @wordpressdotcom

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LivingSocial in trouble: http://t.co/bqb90OH26Y. Upside is that may release lots of entrepreneurial talent into the DC startup ecosystem.

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Great to see how social media entrepreneurship can impact agriculture: http://t.co/ITLnxzjh @mfperkins @yieldpop

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Great interview with Marc Andreessen on shifts in corp IT. One implication is that now easier for startups to tackle: http://t.co/7S58Y2FH

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Congrats to @joshuareeves on the ZenPayroll round and coverage: http://t.co/dwStqOCu

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Enjoying Mary Meeker's idea of an "asset-light generation" and its business applications (Slides 59-75): http://t.co/kMl8ZC29

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Instagram's limiting access by other firms is not a surprising strategic move - but interesting to see public reaction: http://t.co/F5DJYDBE

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The (re)rise of enterprise over consumer startups? http://t.co/qv0vKcKz. If so, I expect funded entrepreneurs to have more past experience.