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Why Governments Don’t Get Startups

Steve Blank

Not understanding and agreeing what “Entrepreneur&# and “Startup” mean can sink an entire country’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. Who’s an entrepreneur? There are six distinct organizational paths for entrepreneurs: lifestyle business , small business, scalable startup, buyable startup, large company, and social entrepreneur.

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Youth Entrepreneurs, Why You Should Help These Upstarts With Their Startups

Up and Running

No one is going to make a case for hampering the creativity, vision, and energy of the youthful entrepreneur. They’re artists, designers, engineers, crafters, coders, and – oh yeah – high schoolers. And the examples of young entrepreneurs impacting the way the world operates seems to grow daily.

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Back to Colombia: Vive La Revolución Emprendedora!

Steve Blank

Lean LaunchPad Colombia starts again today in Bogota with 25 more teams of tech entrepreneurs and at 25 mentors from the country’s universities, incubators, and chambers of commerce. SENA and the Colombian Ministry of IT: targeting 15,000 young entrepreneurs. He’s back to Bogota, Colombia this week for round two.

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Back to Colombia: Vive La Revolución Emprendedora!

Steve Blank

Lean LaunchPad Colombia starts again today in Bogota with 25 more teams of tech entrepreneurs and at 25 mentors from the country’s universities, incubators, and chambers of commerce. SENA and the Colombian Ministry of IT: targeting 15,000 young entrepreneurs. He’s back to Bogota, Colombia this week for round two.

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Ready, fire, aim. Really?

Berkonomics

So why do so many business authors stress this behavior? What happens to careful planning, sure-fire metrics, quality test scenarios, market research, a good business plan – all in place before pulling the trigger of a new opportunity. Ready, FIRE, aim. And who is right here? And the result?

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

But my coders will beat up your coders, any day of the week. No offense, but I honestly think you have no idea what you’re talking about, and your irrational language biases are probably making you lose some really good coders. ” So, essentially you want redneck coders that will kill it and grill it.

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Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?

www.quora.com

5 Comments 30 Answers Tristan Kromer , I help entrepreneurs find co-founders. If you are a creative guy with a good head for business looking for an engineering partner, send me a summary of your idea and business plan, and I'll do the implementation!" Yishan Wong • Nov 8, 2010 lol.if You, a creative guy?