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The Endless Frontier: U.S. Science and National Industrial Policy (part 1)

Steve Blank

but became much less so in the last decade when the bottom-line drove industries offshore. government’s role in setting investment policy, venture capital has set the direction for what new industries attract capital. Office of Scientific Research and Development – Scientists Against Time. In lieu of the U.S.

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Should You Co-Found Your Company With a Software Development Shop (2 of 2)?

David Teten

I’ve seen a range of options for supporting entrepreneurs, which I can rank from least to most involvement in companies by investors: financier VCs, e.g., Correlation Ventures. portfolio operator VCs, e.g., Andreessen Horowitz, ff Venture Capital, First Round Capital, Google Ventures. mentor VCs, e.g., most VCs.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

The timing is perfect, there is more than a little overlap with Vivek Wadhwa’s guest post on venture capital earlier today. The best composition is probably one engineer whose passion lies in the pixels on the screen and another engineer whose passion is making bits fly really fast through servers. Sorry, folks.

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When It’s Darkest Men See the Stars

Steve Blank

Wave after wave of hardware, software, biotech and cleantech products have emerged from what has become “ground zero” of entrepreneurial and startup culture. the failure rate of new ventures (startups had no formal rules and were a hit or miss proposition), the slow adoption rate of new technologies by the government and large companies.

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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

the wave of semiconductor startups in the 1960’s/70’s, the emergence of Venture Capital as a professional industry, the personal computer revolution in 1980’s, the rise of the Internet in the 1990’s and finally. The second thing that’s changed is that we’re now Compressing the Product Development Cycle. Where is it going?

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