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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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5 Ways Venture Capital Is Shaking Up The Tech Startup Landscape In Asia

YoungUpstarts

With venture capitalists around the world shifting their focus to Asia, here are 5 ways the surge in venture capital fundraising is shaking up the startup landscape in the region. KPMG’s Venture Pulse Q3 2017 reported that the Asian market has raised $12.3 Increases government support and legislation.

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SWOT Analysis Examples

Up and Running

Even if you already know what a SWOT analysis is and what it’s used for, it can be tough to translate that information and examine your own business with a critical eye. Reading an example SWOT analysis for a business that is either in your industry or based on a comparable business model can help get you started.

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How Scientists and Engineers Got It Right, and VC’s Got It Wrong

Steve Blank

In the 1950’s the groundwork for a culture and environment of entrepreneurship were taking shape on the east and west coasts of the United States. While existing companies took some of the business, often it was a graduate student or professor who started a new company. government backed venture firms and limited partnerships.

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Public Venture Funding Could Help Build Canada’s Tech Talent

ReadWriteStart

Government-led programs like the Startup Visa Program and the Global Talent Stream are proving successful in attracting quality talent. The monetization reduces the effective share of corporate taxes funneled into the Canadian government. million for late-stage companies in the United States.

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Eureka! A New Era for Scientists and Engineers

Steve Blank

The combination of Venture Capital and technology entrepreneurship is one of the great business inventions of the last 50 years. government agency that supports research in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering - is changing the startup landscape for scientists and engineers. Yet this system isn’t perfect.

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Why Governments Don’t Get Startups

Steve Blank

Small Business Startups: Work to Feed the Family. Today, the overwhelming number of entrepreneurs and startups in the United States are still small businesses. million small businesses in the U.S. Their job is to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. There are 5.7 They make up 99.7%