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Innovation Outposts and The Evolution of Corporate R&D

Steve Blank

These growing national companies were challenged to figure out how to organize an organization of increased complexity that resulted from their large size, and geographic scale as well as their horizontal and vertical integration. By the 1950’s Shumpeter observed that in-house R&D had replaced the inventor-entrepreneur.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

With a portfolio that includes food, tech, and services, the fund is industry-agnostic and focused on the overlooked and underrepresented with high-margin business models. —– UP Fund is a rolling venture fund launched in Q4 2020, and part of global SaaS accelerator Upekkha, based in India. 20% initial ownership.

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Born Global or Die Local – Building a Regional Startup Playbook

Steve Blank

China, Russia, Brazil, India, Indonesia all meet those criteria. I’m in Australia and just spent time with some great entrepreneurs in Melbourne. Creating a vertically oriented regional ecosystem is a pretty amazing accomplishment for any country or industry. They intended to get scale for their business by growing in the U.S.

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TECHSTARS AUSTIN KICKS OFF 2020 MENTORSHIP-DRIVEN ACCELERATOR CLASS, REVEALS 10 SELECTED STARTUPS

Austin Startup

Techstars, the worldwide network that helps entrepreneurs succeed, announced the 10 startups selected for the 2020 class of Techstars Austin. Techstars funds all types of startups, working across all verticals, applying all types of business models. Investors connect with Techstars to gain access to quality deal flow.

Austin 62
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Founders and dysfunctional families « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

In this admittedly very unscientific survey I’ve found that between a quarter and half of the students I consider “hard-core&# entrepreneurs/founders (working passionately to found a company,) self-identified as coming from a less than benign upbringing. I’ve been surprised at the data. Comments and brickbats welcomed.

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First-mover disadvantage: The challenges of hitting the market before it’s ready

The Next Web

Editor’s note: This is a guest column by Sangeet Paul Choudary, who analyzes business models for internet startups at his blog Platform Thinking. Amazon is entering India. In effect, Amazon knew all along that there was a significant ‘First-mover Disadvantage’ to launching in India. Entrepreneur Analysis and Opinion'

India 126
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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Hemafuse

Austin Startup

Prior to Sisu, Yarina founded a medical device non-profit working with rural mobile clinics in India. Only after we have at least two products scaling successfully in at least two emerging market regions, will we have proven the commercial model for medical device design with and for emerging markets. and Indian companies.