Cofounder Government Matching Operations 
Steve Blank
JANUARY 17, 2023
But these look for founders who have a technical or business model insight and a team. Accelerators provide these teams with technical and business expertise and connect them to a network of other founders and advisors. That’s because unlike accelerators, which operate on a six- to 12-week cadence, studios don’t have a set timeframe.
Startup Lessons Learned
AUGUST 20, 2020
How HelpKitchen began The idea for HelpKitchen began with a conversation between Eric Ries and Jeff (founder and CEO of Twilio) and Erica Lawson. The model was simple: we’d build a SMS texting tool that matched the food insecure with a free meal from a partner restaurant, all covered by donor dollars.
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Austin Startup
AUGUST 30, 2019
The intent of Spark Collider is to help companies match their solutions with Air Force customers who can use them, and in that regard it was a tremendous success. We can and will make it better by working more deliberately to match problems and solutions, as well as bringing in commercial customers and investors.
NZ Entrepreneur
MARCH 12, 2019
One of the questions we’re often asked is, “What Government funding is available for startups in New Zealand?” You know exactly what problem you want to solve, and how you’re going to solve it. ” shortly followed by, “I wonder if there’s any funding for startups from the Government?”
Startup Lessons Learned
MAY 22, 2020
They co-founded it with former U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officers Cori Zarek and Ryan Panchadsaram to help all levels of government with COVID-19 response and delivery of services. Jen is the founder and former executive director of Code for America. 12:44) A look at the three waves of requests coming from government. (14:06)
Austin Startup
AUGUST 24, 2019
Brant Barton, my co-founder, and I had left Coremetrics to start it together. Brant, as my skeptical co-founder (a trait that I really valued as his business partner), asked, “But what if this is a biased population?” Governments began to sign up. The journey for Bazaarvoice was similar?—?it and measurement.
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 20, 2010
Often the cause is the inability to grow the startup past the worldview of its founders. One of my ex-engineering students helped start a six-year old company headquartered in Los Angeles that sells to government agencies. We usually catch up when he’s in town, but this time he said he was bringing his co-founder.
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