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

Steve Blank

Urgency and risk-taking in a startup are integral parts of the culture, felt by 100 percent of early-stage employees. They can break the law and apologize later (as Uber, Airbnb , and Tesla did), but a government official taking the same type of risks can go to jail. The Pentagon can build a mindset, culture, and process to fix this.

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Year-End VC Report Shows Strength of Internet & Early Stage Investment

ReadWriteStart

New York Takes the #2 Spot For Tech VC from Massachusetts. Massachusetts, 207. billion for Massachusetts. Sure, this isn't a rousting of Massachusetts by New York. No surprise, mobile investment continued to grow. Early Stage VC Grows. Over the last five quarters, New York saw 208 tech deals.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Incubators Are Reaching Out To 1M/1M

ReadWriteStart

The smart home business is still in the very early stages in India, and it will take some time before Evolutech ramps up. Next, Douglas Villalobos from Costa Rica pitched GeoInvenio, a mobile application development platform. These resellers buy devices from the U.S. GeoInvenio. Discuss.

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Forget Presidential Politics: Here’s How We Create Jobs — And How You Can Help

Gust

Patent reform is high on the list of priorities for most of the tech industry, particularly in the areas of software, Internet and mobile technology. Giving privately held companies maximum room to maneuver as they raise funding from accredited investors and participate in secondary markets can only strengthen the startup ecosystem.

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Seed and Later Investments for Startups are Booming

Startup Professionals Musings

Seed investments” are early stage financings (typically less than $1.5 Massachusetts is a distant #3 but in terms of the rate of follow-on financing, Massachusetts has the highest rate. million) made by either Angels or venture capitalists, or both. California and NY dominate for number of seed deals.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 1M/1M Announces Partnership With TiE Chennai

ReadWriteStart

a group of entrepreneurs from TiE Chennai gathered at the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M) Research Park campus, and we spent the next four hours discussing strategy and tactics of early-stage entrepreneurship. However, in my assessment, the bigger opportunity for this business is to go to market as a mobile app.

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On Supercities, Economic Growth, and Income Inequality in a Post-COVID World

Ben's Blog

A similar pattern exists for venture capital funding: In 2020, just three regions — the Bay Area, New York, and Massachusetts — accounted for 70%+ of total venture funding in the U.S. In fact, the enforceability of non-competes in Massachusetts has been cited as one key contributor to the rise of Silicon Valley compared to Boston.