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Building a new startup hub

Startup Lessons Learned

Provide early seed capital, and be the ones to make those introductions. And do your customer development. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Accept that many successful companies are going to want to be backed by big-name firms in other cities.

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When It’s Darkest Men See the Stars

Steve Blank

The plummeting cost of getting a first product to market (particularly for Internet startups) has shaken up the venture capital industry. Venture capital used to be a tight club clustered around formal firms located in Silicon Valley, Boston, and New York. Entrepreneurship as It’s Own Management Science. Happy Thanksgiving.

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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

The plummeting cost of getting a first product to market (particularly for Internet startups) has shaken up the Venture Capital industry. Venture Capital used to be a tight club clustered around formal firms located in Silicon Valley, Boston, and New York. and there were no books, blogs or YouTube videos about entrepreneurship.

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