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benhallen

@benhallen

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

 Seattle, WA
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Joined June 2008
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I am excited to share my newest piece in Harvard Business Review on "What Sets Successful Startup Accelerators Apart": hbr.org/2024/03/what-sets-su… @susleec @UWFosterSchool
What Sets Successful Startup Accelerators Apart

What Sets Successful Startup Accelerators Apart

What role do business accelerators play in boosting the growth of early-stage companies? Accelerators provide a structured environment of mentorship, education, and resources in exchange for equity....

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Big thanks for @tak_lo for being a fantastic guest speaker today at LBS's Financing the Entrepreneurial Business
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 washingtonpost.com/local/obi…
Thomas E. Hutchinson, U-Va. professor, dies at 77

Thomas E. Hutchinson, U-Va. professor, dies at 77

Dr. Hutchinson invented an eye-gaze technology that helped paralyzed people communicate by computer.

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NYT on lead bible app - interesting illustration of business model innovation and building ecosystem of partners: nytimes.com/2013/07/27/techn…
Zynga announces layoffs. Fascinating / scary how newly public companies are increasingly facing disruptive threats allthingsd.com/20130603/zyng…
Great article by @joshuareeves in WSJ on tapping into an entrepreneurial ecosystem: blogs.wsj.com/accelerators/2…
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Great time to be I-Banker in tech. Yahoo submits bid for Hulu: allthingsd.com/20130524/yet-…
Was Yahoo's Summly acquisition part of locking up access to other IP they were buying? businessinsider.com/why-mari…
YAHOO SOURCE: Here's The Real Reason Marissa Mayer Bought A 17-Year-Old's Startup For $30 Million

YAHOO SOURCE: Here's The Real Reason Marissa Mayer Bought A 17-Year-Old's Startup For $30 Million

Marissa Mayer's $30 million startup acquisition raises eyebrows, hinting at Yahoo's future direction.

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Crowdfunding brings to mind Huggy Rao' work on social movements and how company's can leverage these movements: amazon.com/Market-Rebels-Act…
Fascinating to watch movie studios now using crowdfunding for Veronica Mars movie. Has raised nearly $1M on 1st day kickstarter.com/projects/559….
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Terrific! Google Glass: prototyped using binder clips and clay wp.me/p10512-hPd via @wordpressdotcom
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LivingSocial in trouble: privco.com/livingsocial-rece…. 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: bit.ly/UDN2c6 @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: techcrunch.com/2013/01/27/ma…
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Congrats to @joshuareeves on the ZenPayroll round and coverage: blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital…
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Enjoying Mary Meeker's idea of an "asset-light generation" and its business applications (Slides 59-75): kpcb.com/insights/2012-inter…
Instagram's limiting access by other firms is not a surprising strategic move - but interesting to see public reaction: techcrunch.com/2012/12/06/th…

They Screwed Us. Right Before They Screwed Us Again. #poohead | TechCrunch

We just got screwed. More on this below. Nobody says "Web 2.0" anymore. The term just didn't stand the test of time, long ago it became clichéd. But a handful of years ago it had real meaning to a...

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The (re)rise of enterprise over consumer startups? avc.com/a_vc/2012/11/what-ha…. If so, I expect funded entrepreneurs to have more past experience.

What Has Changed - AVC

As I read this post in the WSJ about the changing nature of VC funding of consumer web companies, I thought that we may be looking at the symptoms and not the disease. As the WSJ notes, VC funding of...

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Chris Dixon explains why he is joining Andreesen Horowitz; great insight into the potential for innovation in VC space: cdixon.org/2012/11/19/a16z/
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