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Am I a Founder? The Adventure of a Lifetime. « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Yet for every founder there are 10-20 other employees who take the near-equivalent risks in joining an early-stage company. If you’re not a founder (by choice, timing or temperament,) you may be an early employee or a later stage startup employee. Will there be a lecture on getting seed money in a post crisis world?

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. For both companies, the initial traction enabled raising seed money to get them to a traditional VC investment.) Then, forget everything else, VCs included, and just build.