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Why The Government is Isn’t a Bigger Version of a Startup

Steve Blank

Within a decade, the rise of venture capital in Silicon Valley enabled startups to find commercial customers rather than military ones. It’s not that these companies are smarter than Defense Department employees, but they operate with different philosophies, different product development methodologies, and with different constraints.

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Strategy Roundtable: Professional Investors Do Not Invest In $20 Million Markets

ReadWriteStart

I want to know how many customers exist out there who would be likely buyers of the O-Port products, at what price-point, and what does that add up to? I feel that it is not at all necessary to give this much equity up at this stage of the game. He should then bootstrap his product development by using the consulting fees.

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Strategy Roundtable: Professional Investors Do Not Invest In $20 Million Markets

www.readwriteweb.com

I want to know how many customers exist out there who would be likely buyers of the O-Port products, at what price-point, and what does that add up to? I feel that it is not at all necessary to give this much equity up at this stage of the game. He should then bootstrap his product development by using the consulting fees.

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Strategy Roundtable: Professional Investors Do Not Invest In $20 Million Markets

www.readwriteweb.com

I want to know how many customers exist out there who would be likely buyers of the O-Port products, at what price-point, and what does that add up to? I feel that it is not at all necessary to give this much equity up at this stage of the game. He should then bootstrap his product development by using the consulting fees.