Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

They accomplished their goal, but at a huge, unanticipated cost: the processes and committees they designed ended up strangling innovation. An existing company or government organization is primarily organized for day-to-day execution of its current business processes or mission. There’s a much better way. Three common mistakes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2014

My first advice for new entrepreneurs is to pick a domain that doesn’t have the sky-high up-front development costs, like online web sites and smart phone apps. That includes estimating the money required to get to the revenue stage, and saving money to cover costs before you jump off the cliff. Join a startup incubator.

Entrepreneur 283

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

This post is about the how the Chinese government engineered technology clusters. Of all the Chinese government programs, the Torch Program is the one program that kick-started Chinese high-tech innovation and startups. They provide consulting, promotion, product testing, hiring, training and incubation services to startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

My first advice for new entrepreneurs is to pick a domain that doesn’t have the sky-high up-front development costs, like online web sites and smart phone apps. That includes estimating the money required to get to the revenue stage, and saving money to cover costs before you jump off the cliff. Join a startup incubator.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

My first advice for new entrepreneurs is to pick a domain, such as online web sites and smart phone apps, that doesn’t have the sky-high up-front development costs. That includes estimating the money required to get to the revenue stage, and saving money to cover costs before you jump off the cliff. Join a startup incubator.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

My first advice for new entrepreneurs is to pick a domain, such as online web sites and smart phone apps, that doesn’t have the sky-high up-front development costs. That includes estimating the money required to get to the revenue stage, and saving money to cover costs before you jump off the cliff. Join a startup incubator.

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Entrepreneur Intellectual Property Technical Review Incubator 120

Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

Government and the enterprise are now followers rather than leaders. Continuous innovation requires the imagination and courage to challenge the initial hypotheses of your current business model (channel, cost, customers, products, supply chain, etc.) and there were no books, blogs or YouTube videos about entrepreneurship.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

It is going to cost a lot of money just to get the initial batch of products to test the market and would definitely require external funding. Incubators and Accelerators. Then we have startup platforms like incubators and accelerators. Government programs. Government programs. Options for initial setup. ?

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

passed the CHIPS and Science Act , one of the first pieces of national industrial policy – government planning and intervention in a specific industry — in the last 50 years, in this case for semiconductors. They have built a sophisticated public/private financing ecosystem to support these plans. Last month the U.S.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Most healthy businesses need business financing at some point. Startups have to deal with starting costs and ongoing businesses have to finance growth and working capital. Financing options depend on what kind of business you have. Don’t waste your time looking for the wrong kind of financing.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

plus it's faster and costs half as much ), it ranks first in the world for number of blogs per Internet user, and has a formidable market of Internet consumers who spent €5.5 The French government has translated the JEI program into English as the Young Entrepreneurs Initiative , an annual competition run by the French Embassy to the US.

France 163

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NZ Entrepreneur

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Motivated to find a way to help students reduce costs, Yoo worked with advertisers to subsidise student printing. With talent in sales, marketing, and technology, Niesh was still missing some critical processes and systems – including elements of finance and human resources – to support their growth.

Global 50

Global New Zealand Incubator Startup 50

Up and Running

JULY 5, 2016

By measuring various metrics like business survival rate, the prevalence of investors, and labor cost, they were able to determine which cities offer the best outlook for new ventures. With low operation costs and a large banking sector, Sioux Falls is receiving national attention as a great place to start a business. Lincoln, NE.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Enter your monthly sales and costs and LivePlan calculates your financial data for you, and presents it visually with easy to digest charts and graphs. . Accelerators and incubators. ecosystem of startups and small business includes many accelerators and incubators. Whereas an incubator helps with the beginning stages.

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Business Plan Incubator Software Review Programming 82

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Enter your monthly sales and costs and LivePlan calculates your financial data for you, and presents it visually with easy to digest charts and graphs. . Accelerators and incubators. ecosystem of startups and small business includes many accelerators and incubators. Whereas an incubator helps with the beginning stages.

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Business Plan Incubator Software Review Programming 60

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

And when you further strip out any employment created by government stimulus that is uncertain to continue going forward we know that the country is not creating enough jobs. This coupled with government intervention of companies “too big to fail” were the blight that led to Japan’s “ lost decade.” We’d have to hit 2.5%

Entrepreneur 298

Entrepreneur Technical Review Balance Sheet Government 298

NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 23, 2019

Finance and accounting was the most common area of concern (39%), followed by IT and technology (31%), digital marketing (20%), and business planning and strategy (25%). The post Finance and accounting biggest headache for small biz owners followed by tech appeared first on NZ Entrepreneur Magazine.

Finance 70

Finance New Zealand Incubator Curation 70

Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

government to help them innovate faster– not just kind of fast, but 10x the number of initiatives in 1/5 the time. Innovation and improvement occurs in Horizon 1 on process, procedures, costs, etc. Here the company is essentially incubating a startup. I’ve been working with large companies and the U.S. Here’s how.

Lean 120

Lean Management Business Model Incubator 120

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Dual-use” products reduce the cost for defense adoption of products. The process recognizes that Innovation isn’t a single activity (an incubator, a class, etc.). government federal research agencies to turn ideas into products. It is a process from start to deployment.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

I highlight endogenous social impact because many of my portfolio companies might give money to charity or provide low-cost pricing to nonprofits, but that’s not what I think of as an impact company; they’re tacking on social impact on top of their core business, whatever that is. . Goldman Sachs bought Clarity for ~$100m. .

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

His organization had a corporate incubator for disruptive ( horizon 3 ) experiments and provided innovation support for his company’s operating divisions for process and business model innovations ( Horizon 1 and 2.) The division general managers have verbally given us their support. They could either: approve and adopt.

Finance 226

Finance Lean Metrics Programming 226

David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

Everyone wanted to work in finance. Political science, government service, and law — Yale has the #1 rated law school in the US and a long history of alumni serving in government. For example, Yale could launch a center focused on applying political science thinking to the governance of major internet businesses (e.g.,

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 24, 2015

Universities charge students large tuition amounts (that grow considerably faster than the rate of inflation) to attend universities with little cost accounting and almost no cost control. The dirty little secret of university finance is that undergraduate tuition fees subsidize faculty research. by David E.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 27, 2010

They didn’t wait for a curriculum change or some government grant money to come through (although they just got Kaufmann money for it). No revenues, no costs. Teach ‘em Finance and Chase or Accenture will come and pick ‘em up 30 at a time. Bo from RoseTech even volunteered to videotape the sessions.

New York 116

New York CTO Hire Technical Review New York City 116

Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2013

Cost pressures are unrelenting in every sector, with pressure on prices and margins continuing to increase. Recently, the financing of innovation in medical devices has collapsed even further with most Class III devices simply unfundable. Exits have remained within about the same, while the cost and time to exit have doubled.

Startup 294

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

He’s personally led more than 50 financing rounds. Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008. Offers two products: Palantir Government and Palantir Finance. Used by hedge funds, the intelligence community and multiple government agencies. It’s part of what makes him so likable. Current round: $4.

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San Francisco Venture Capital Analytics Government 248

www.founderinstitute.com

MARCH 2, 2010

He counsels public and private company clients in a variety of industries including information technology, government contracting, software and telecommunications. Think of it as “shared office space meets incubator meets entrepreneurial club-house.” Legal costs are rising while venture returns are shrinking.

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Term Sheet Liquidation Preference Vesting San Diego 40

Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

I see consumer markets harnessed to wag the dog of public sector employers (government, military) and then the private sector. I also recently saw a post from a VC I respect immensely hailing the model of successful marketplace returns based on undercutting supply costs?—?and and every other team member the same way. That’s a metric!

Silicon Valley 54

Silicon Valley Startup B2C Sweat Equity 54

Up and Running

APRIL 24, 2018

For example, having flexible work hours means you can hire talented candidates from different time zones, which will increase your productivity while keeping the costs down. Because of complex government regulations and a lengthy incubation period, funding a healthcare startup is more difficult compared to financing a tech startup.

SBIR 73

SBIR Startup Artificial Inteligence Intellectual Property 73

ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

One of the primary drivers of the switch is cost. The long tail apps can easily be ported to or developed on Google App Engine in a third of the time and cost using OrangeScape as an application platform. Voila, the entire productivity suite of an enterprise can become cloud-ready, quickly, efficiently, and cost-effectively!

Entrepreneur 114

Entrepreneur India Silicon Valley Massachusetts 114

Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Are they running from high prices, high taxes, dysfunctional government, and wildfires? All of the investors, all of the big companies, all of the government groups?—?they In fact, the Houston city government ranks number onein the country in renewable energy use. What’s bringing them here? Count all of the people you know!

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Texas San Antonio Houston Dallas 90

Up and Running

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Step 3: Get financed. These reports might include estimates for production costs and returns, like this one on the University of Maryland Extension Portal. If you can’t find anyone to lease your land, there are still a few options open to you, including incubator farming, rooftop farming, and SPIN farming. In the U.S.,

Colorado 60

Colorado Southern California Business Plan Oregon 60

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Outsourcing is something a big company, with a known customer / problem (that has revenue & traction) does to save cost. Government grants – Credit cards / debt. If you believe in it – then finance whatever you can yourself. I have a proposal written up including full cost and revenue projections.

Technical Review 44

Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44