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Why Governments Don’t Get Startups

Steve Blank

Scalable startups require risk capital to fund their search for a business model, and they attract investment from equally crazy financial investors – venture capitalists. Their job is to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. It is not a “jobs program” for the local populace.

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The Government Starts an Incubator: The National Science Foundation Innovation Corps

Steve Blank

government has been running one of the most audacious experiments in entrepreneurship since World War II. In July I got a call from Errol Arkilic , a program manager at the National Science Foundation (NSF), the $6.8-billion government agency that supports research in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering.

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ESG in Venture Capital: Interview with Blue Future Partners (VC Fund of Funds)

David Teten

Blue Future Partners, a venture capital fund of funds, recently interviewed me on ESG in venture capital. For example, I’m an investor via ff Venture Capital in: – Plated.com is a meal kit company, delivering you the recipe and fresh ingredients to make a gourmet meal in your own kitchen.

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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

Their idea is that consumers will want a subscription service for short form entertainment (10-minute programs) for mobile rather than full length movies. Almost overnight the floodgates opened, and risk capital was available at scale from venture capital investors who rushed their startups toward public offerings.

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The Helsinki Spring

Steve Blank

. —— I was invited to Finland as part of Stanford’s Engineering Technology Venture Program partnership with Aalto University. a government that’s trying to help, but gets in the way. Business Angels: FiBAn , Sitra. Government Funding: Tekes , Sitra , Finnvera , Finnish Investment Industry.

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Grant Applications Often Provide Early-Stage Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

This process costs money, which professional investors are not willing to contribute, since their interest is in scaling a proven product and business model into a growth business. Acquiring seed-stage funding is admittedly tough, but a source that I find often overlooked is government grant funding, accessible in the U.S.

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When It’s Darkest Men See the Stars

Steve Blank

the wave of semiconductor startups in the 1960’s/70’s, the emergence of venture capital as a professional industry, the personal computer revolution in 1980’s, the rise of the Internet in the 1990’s and finally. The New Structure of the Venture Capital industry. The Democratization of Entrepreneurship.