Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2017

This source is a major focus these days, due to government initiatives to incent research and development on alternative energy and other technologies. Join a startup incubator. Exchanging your services for services is possible with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2011

I was invited to Finland as part of Stanford’s Engineering Technology Venture Program partnership with Aalto University. Toxic Business Press and Contradictory Government Incentives. While the government says they love startups, the first thing they did this year is raise the capital gains tax. Part 1 can be found here.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

This source is a major focus these days, due to government initiatives to incent research and development on alternative energy and other technologies. Join a startup incubator. Exchanging your services for services is possible with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people.

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Intellectual Property Technical Review Venture Capital Startup 309

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

This source is a major focus these days, due to government initiatives to incent research and development on alternative energy and other technologies. Join a startup incubator. Exchanging your services for services is possible with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people.

Intellectual Property 134

Intellectual Property Technical Review Startup Bootstrapping 134

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 7, 2011

. —— I was invited to Finland as part of Stanford’s Engineering Technology Venture Program partnership with Aalto University. a government that’s trying to help, but gets in the way. Government Funding: Tekes , Sitra , Finnvera , Finnish Investment Industry. 9-to-5 Venture Capital. Lack of Business Experience.

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Finland Venture Capital Government Russia 324

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 1, 2014

As the emeritus Chief Technology Officer of the United States, he still connects government and Silicon Valley. Bill Gross founded Idealab in 1996, making it the longest-running technology incubator alive today. He was a very early employee of Facebook , and engineering director there through the moment it blew up.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 23, 2020

However, the UK has been a proven incubator of many different kinds of organisations. For example, if you were a software engineer based in India, you are well within your rights to sell your services as an outsourced contractor to a UK company. Tech-centric businesses are common, with FinTech being particularly popular in London.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 25, 2012

This source often gets overlooked, but it should be a major focus these days due to government initiatives on alternative energy and technology. Startup incubators. Exchanging equity for services is worth negotiating with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people. Small business grants.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

This source is a major focus these days, due to government initiatives to incent research and development on alternative energy and other technologies. Join a startup incubator. Exchanging your services for services is possible with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

There's a thriving geek culture in Paris, and no lack of software development expertise, thanks to superior universities that produce superior engineers. 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. The Big Players.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2011

This source often gets overlooked, but it should be a major focus these days due to government initiatives on alternative energy and technology. Startup incubators. Exchanging equity for services is worth negotiating with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people. Small business grants.

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Technical Review Bootstrapping Startup Venture Capital 233

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 13, 2011

I was invited to Finland as part of Stanford's Engineering Technology Venture Program partnership with Aalto University. A government that's trying to help, but gets in the way. Yet Tekes does that and is trying to act like a government-run Venture Capital firm. Thanks to Kristo Ovaska and team for the fabulous logistics!)

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Finland Venture Capital Government Russia 158

Gust

JUNE 17, 2012

This source often gets overlooked, but it should be a major focus these days due to government initiatives on alternative energy and technology. Startup incubators. Exchanging equity for services is worth negotiating with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people. Small business grants.

Technical Review 164

Technical Review Bootstrapping Venture Capital Incubator 164

Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

The easy part is, “Let’s have an incubator.” The only hard part about it, is to get well-defined problems from sponsors in the local city or government agency that you offer to students. A third is incubators and makers’ spaces. . “I want to see what you look like in a prison suit.”

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Transformify

APRIL 15, 2016

The capital of Kenya, Nairobi, is a vibrant city offering various resources for young start – ups, including accelerator 88MPH and incubator i-Hub. Patricia Jumi leads The Growth Hub, a major incubator and entrepreneurial resource that serves as a catalyst for Nairobi’s startups. The next step would be to secure funding.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 19, 2012

My personal highlight was watching newly-appointed United States CTO Todd Park receive a standing ovation from a crowd that is decidedly skeptical about government. He told us stories of specific examples of "lean government" in action, ranging from HealthCare.gov to a new approval process for medical devices at the FDA.

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Lean Silicon Valley United States Government 165

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. To move innovation faster, we now have 21 st century tools — Business Model Canvas , Customer Development , Agile Engineering – all adding up to a Lean Startup. A 50x speedup kind of fast. Here’s how.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 1, 2010

It’s not a quick solution, but the government and other funding agencies do not want ownership or interest payments from your company. Startup incubators. Exchanging equity for services is worth negotiating with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people. You have to be relentless in this pursuit to win.

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Technical Review Bootstrapping Startup Venture Capital 149

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

. — I just watched a very smart company try to manage innovation by hiring a global consulting firm to offload engineering from “distractions.” An existing company or government organization is primarily organized for day-to-day execution of its current business processes or mission. Engineering continually felt overwhelmed.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2013

It’s a model for a government program that’s gotten the balance between public/private partnerships just right. scientists and engineers we train as entrepreneurs and how many of them pass on their knowledge to students. government has built an accelerator for scientists and engineers. Glad to a part of it.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

Launch48 is a new kind of micro-incubator taking place over the course of a weekend, which enables entrepreneurs to pitch their concept in one minute, in order to find team mates who are interested in pursuing the idea. Mike Butcher has a pretty good list here. How much to raise?

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Elevator Pitch Incubator Technical Review Startup 102

David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

Specialized alumni tech networks : Accelerate Yale (which had merged into it YaleFintech and Yale Tech), Yale Science & Engineering Association. Accelerators & Fellowships : CITY Accelerators , Social Innovation Lab , Yale Center for Engineering Innovation & Design Fellowship ; Yale Canaan Fellowship. Incubate non-Yalies.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Hiring startup engineers? 1871 Ranks 9th In The World In Survey Of Business Incubators – crowdspring.co/Xe1N6Y. 40 Official Government Agency Websites for Design Inspiration | SpyreStudios – [link] crowdspring.co/WzjmOt. They seem to be | AVC – crowdspring.co/1rbM5FT. 1m6aWL4.

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 94

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Our students, a mix between international policy and engineering, will be the ones in this fight. One observation that often goes unnoticed is that the government audit agencies – GAO, DoDIG – are also part of the problem, as they work hard in assuring compliance with bad strategy. As a nation the U.S.

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Technology China Russia Silicon Valley 436

Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

Hacking for Diplomacy is a new course from the Management Science and Engineering department in Stanford’s Engineering school and Stanford’s International Policy Studies program that will be first offered in the Fall of 2016. diplomats, government officials, and all other personnel at home and abroad. Support U.S.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

In Singapore, the government has been extremely supportive, and there is entrepreneurial activity, although we have not yet seen very significant companies emerge. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. About Sramana Mitra. Discuss.

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Ireland Silicon Valley India Entrepreneur 124

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

This insight has begun to change how we teach entrepreneurship, incubate startups and fund them. When I read policy papers by government organizations trying to replicate the lessons from the valley, I’m struck how they seem to miss some basic lessons. but then the government got out of the way. Buyable Startup s: Born to Flip.

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ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

As marketing channels that once brought in endless streams of new customers mature, those streams can quickly become mere trickles, as a result of anything from new competition, to changes in consumer behavior (often brought about by technology, like the shift to mobile), to new rules that govern the channel. Image Source.

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Technical Review Algorithm Channel Analytics 127

YoungUpstarts

JULY 29, 2013

by Meng Weng Wong, co-founder and social engineer at JFDI Asia. Role models” haven’t made it quite as far the heroes, but as practising entrepreneurs they are fully up-to-date with the on-the-ground realities of fundraising, hiring, and interfacing with government. You’re supposed to demo the business, not just the product.

Asia 184

Asia Singapore Cofounder Incubator 184

www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Start-ups often hire at one extreme -- closer to a Lead Developer or VP of Engineering -- whereas corporates may focus on their CIO, which is potentially quite a different role. Hold responsibility for IT governance of platform & services, including telecommunications, networks, infrastructure, engineering, media, and architecture.

Fractional CTO 40

Fractional CTO CTO Technical Review CTO Hire 40

Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

Hacking for Diplomacy is a new course from the Management Science and Engineering department in Stanford’s Engineering school and Stanford’s International Policy Studies program that will be first offered in the Fall of 2016. diplomats, government officials, and all other personnel at home and abroad. Support U.S.

Lean 120

Lean Agile Government Africa 120

YoungUpstarts

JULY 24, 2013

million) worth of hardware and software technology tools that’s developed as an incubation center for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) working on high-value design and engineering services. These include NI’s LabVIEW software, NI PXI, NI DAQ, and NI CompactRIO.

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Malaysia Technology Intellectual Property IP 186

Austin Startup

JANUARY 4, 2020

These are achievable dreams, and our goal as a bioscience incubator is to help make those dreams reality through education, mentorship, and access to technology.”?—?Tami Temple’s Health and Bioscience District is governed by a seven-member board. Tami Annable, THBD Executive Director.

Texas 63

Texas Incubator Early Stage Cofounder 63

Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

The university found government contracts profitable as the government reimbursed their overhead charges (their indirect costs.) Some students who were getting their engineering graduate degrees wrote masters and PhD thesis that were classified. Over a hundred government contractors reviewed Stanford’s work on tubes and systems.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

See Customer Development Engineering for my first stab at articulating the theory involved) Ferocious customer-centric rapid iteration, as exemplified by the Customer Development process. This is a philosophy that governs my daily life as well as my entrepreneurial activities. September 11, 2008 2:06 PM Editor said. Less is more.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2010

Don’t look here for venture capital levels of funding, but certainly early-stage government grants, incubators, and entrepreneurship incentives are available from endowments and state funds. If you need part-time engineers to build a prototype, you can always find high-caliber grad students with the latest theory ready to work.

Phoenix 235

Phoenix Intellectual Property Arizona Incubator 235

Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2012

The NSF I-Corps Lean LaunchPad class has different goals then the same class taught in a university or incubator. In an incubator, the Lean LaunchPad develops angel or venture-funded startups. It doesn’t replace private capital with government funds. The output of the NSF I-Corps class provides a proxy.).

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