Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

Every summer, they bring approximately 10 companies to Boulder for an intense "accelerator" experience (dont call it an incubator, or youll get dirty looks). Provide early seed capital, and be the ones to make those introductions. And do your customer development. I was really overwhelmed this time. Expo SF (May.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

In addition to super angels, incubators like Y Combinator , TechStars and the 100+ plus others worldwide like them have begun to formalize seed-investing. Risk capital has emerged in China, India and other countries where risk taking, innovation and liquidity is encouraged, on a scale previously only seen in the U.S.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

A unicorn is a startup with a market capitalization north of a billion dollars. What this means is that the emergence of incubators and super angels have dramatically expanded the sources of seed capital. Their need to get into high-profile deals has driven late-stage valuations into unicorn territory.

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