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Why “The Culture of Failure” is Imperative to Startup Communities

Both Sides of the Table

I recently wrote about the 12 tips to building successful startup communities. I lived in London from 1997-2005 and for 6 of those years ran my startup based out of London. Failure in startups seems to now be embedded in startup communities like NY and LA. I’m absolutely certain it is critical to any startup community.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 19: Carmen Medina and Don Burke

Steve Blank

Change agents inside a corporation or government agency know how to build consensus and be a rebel at work. Don Burke has worked 24+ years in the Federal government. In 2005, while at the CIA, Don helped found Intellipedia , the Intelligence Community-wide wiki, with his colleague Sean Dennehy. Don : Exactly.

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Visit to Case Foundation and Startup America

David Teten

Although they focus on initiatives that leverage technology, they engage in a wide spectrum of cross-sector collaborations with for-profit, government, and non-profit institutions. We also do a lot of cross-sector collaborations: bringing in for-profit, government, nonprofits, etc. We’re not just focused on NY/Boston/Silicon Valley.

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On Supercities, Economic Growth, and Income Inequality in a Post-COVID World

Ben's Blog

Economic inequality and opportunities for job growth are directly correlated with overall spending levels on R&D and with the geographic concentration (or distribution) or those dollars — both public funding (government) and private (as with VC). As noted above, government spending on R&D has fallen and at the same time U.S.

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America’s Entrepreneurial Innovation Needs Help

Startup Professionals Musings

In fact, between 1995 and 2005, these same immigrants founded over 50 percent of the venture-backed technology companies in Silicon Valley, and are some of the key venture capitalists there as well. Government should learn from private industry and invest research funds just like a venture capitalist invests startup capital.

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ProfessorVC: Where did Summer Go?

Professor VC

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. A 2005 report by the Government Accountability Office indicates that textbook prices have outpaced inflation by more than 2-1 over the past two decades and account for 26% of tuition and fees at four-year public universities and nearly three-quarters of costs at community colleges.

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National Security Innovation just got a major boost in Washington

Steve Blank

I learned he’d gone to Harvard to get his MPA at the Kennedy School of Government in conflict resolution. In 2005, he returned to West Point (where he earned his undergrad degree) and ran the Combating Terrorism Center. government where their traditional academic path and business career would never take them. (I