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Is a Venture Studio Right for You?

Steve Blank

In exchange for attending an accelerator, startups give up 5% to 10% of their company’s equity. In return for the lower risk, a venture studio typically takes a larger percentage of equity. In contrast with an accelerator that takes 5%-10% of a startup’s equity , venture studios take anywhere from 30%-80% of a startup’s equity.

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Seeking CEO+team for VC-backed startup: Make America Functional Again

David Teten

pre-launch, BIG equity, big peeps involved–ANY TIPS?? Do you want to make America functional again ? Our initial test market: We want to make America functional again by helping our initial users– major advocacy organizations such as environmental groups–promote majoritarian-supported policies.

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A Look at What’s Fueling Startup Investments in Colombia

ReadWriteStart

In 2018, venture capital investments in Latin America doubled for the second consecutive year, according to LAVCA’s Annual Review of Tech Investment in Latin America. Looking at the major markets in Latin America in 2018, most show increases in VC investment in keeping with the regional average.

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Seeking CEO+team for VC-backed startup: Make America Functional Again

David Teten

Do you want to make America functional again ? For 2 years, I’ve been struggling to think what I can do to help make America functional again, in light of how broken our governance is. Our goal: make America functional again by helping to empower people to promote policies they care about. This work is unpaid.

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How Federal Government Can Help Entrepreneurship

Feld Thoughts

This afternoon in Boulder I’ll be on a panel as part of the White House Startup America Roundtable. Over the past few years, I’ve spent some time thinking about how the government can help entrepreneurship. More recently, I’ve focused my energy on the Startup Visa movement and the Startup America Partnership.

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Fixing immigration for startups: What the US government can (and should) do right now

The Next Web

However there’s very little clarity within the tech sector about what exactly is broken – and what should be changed to help companies other than Facebook, IBM, and others grow, and for America to attract and retain real immigrant talent. government plan. Why would America want to force out true talent? A green card.

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10,000 Startups – Startup Weekend Next

Steve Blank

A partnership of Startup Weekend , Startup America , TechStars and Udacity , Startup Weekend Next brings four weeks of amazing hands-on training learning to build your startup to cities around the world. It doesn’t take equity and just has a small fee that varies by city ($140 to $299), to cover event operations and expenses.

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