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Why Governments Don’t Get Startups

Steve Blank

There are six distinct organizational paths for entrepreneurs: lifestyle business , small business, scalable startup, buyable startup, large company, and social entrepreneur. For policy makers, the first order of business is to methodically think through which of these entrepreneurial paths they want to help and grow.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley 12: The Rise of “Risk Capital.

Steve Blank

Meanwhile on the West Coast – “The Group” 1950’s When Ampex was raising its money, in 1952, an employee of Fireman’s Fund in San Francisco, Reid Dennis , managed to put $20,000 in the deal. into believing it was behind the Soviet Union in innovation. In response, one of the many U.S. government would invest three (up to $300,000.)