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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 26: Javier Saade and Hillary Hartley

Steve Blank

The Small Business Administration and the digital services agency 18F are trying to help entrepreneurs build successful companies and the 21st century digital government. Small Business Administration. Small Business Administration ’s Associate Administrator and chief of its investment and innovation programs.

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When Krave Jerky Showed up in Class with a $435,000 Check

Steve Blank

In fact, by the start of class they had ~$750K in revenue for 2011 – not quite Facebook but a nice small business. Hershey plans to operate Krave as a standalone business within its Hershey North America division. Jon Sebastiani will continue to lead the business as President of Krave. Lessons Learned.

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Startup America – Dead On Arrival

Steve Blank

Last week the White House announced Startup America , a public/private initiative to accelerate accelerate high-growth entrepreneurship in the U.S. Startup America is a mashup of very smart programs by very smart people but not a strategy. I got a call from a recruiter looking for a CEO for the Startup America Partnership.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 25: Nigel and Vaughn Caldon and Kerry Frank

Steve Blank

There’s almost $2 billion spent in North America on paying to play basketball. Small Business Administration , and Hillary Hartley , deputy executive director of 18F. What we really found that our client was essentially the basketball league, and we could throw ourselves in the middle of the transaction.

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Creating the Next Silicon Valley – The Chilean Experiment

Steve Blank

Chile has decided that it wants to be an innovation hub in South America. Small Business versus Scalable Startup versus Corporate Entrepreneurship. Why will people from South America stream to Chile, besides its magnificent geography? Creating the Next Silicon Valley – The Chilean Experiment. See below.).

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 7: Betsy Corcoran and Miriam Altman

Steve Blank

Miriam Altman got her career start through Teach for America teaching in the New York City public schools. They … work to … help get capital to communities that typically can’t receive traditional capital to grow small businesses and fund charter schools … .

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supermac War Story 7: Rabbits Out of the Hat - Product Line Extensions

Steve Blank

However, the mistake would be to confuse the interest in consumer facing companies with mass interest in the rest of corporate America. It may happen, but its not there yet. (As As a test search twitter for tweets about non-consumer companies on the Fortune 500.)