On Friday, Thomas announced he was leaving VentureBeat to form a startup.

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Instead of transcripts and term papers, you will have a documentation of student learning in the form of Lean Startup model collateral.

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After founding four successful technology companies (including ePrize) and experiencing my fair share of ups and downs, I came together with Dan Gilbert and Brian Hermelin to form yet another startup.

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One smaller company will also get a chance to show off its wares, in the form of our Startup Contest, which will put it on the floor alongside some of tech's top brands.

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One asset Just Opened has in its corner is startup and branding experience in the form of its board members.

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The free-form curriculum itself clues you into all of the things you need to consider to make a startup work (there are no degrees, or at least, not yet).

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The biggest stories will be shaped, over months and years, by this new landscape of brand and startup collisions: the deals that get struck, the light-bulbs that go off, and the relationships that form at SXSW but last far beyond it.

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