Steve Blank
APRIL 12, 2013
By 1991, 70% of the Torch funded startups were getting bank financing for expansion and later stages of the new ventures, with local governments acting as guarantors. Inside the zones were Torch Technology Business Incubators with startups licensed by the local governments. Like the U.S. It went bankrupt in 1997.).
Steve Blank
APRIL 12, 2013
By 1991, 70% of the Torch funded startups were getting bank financing for expansion and later stages of the new ventures, with local governments acting as guarantors. Inside the zones were Torch Technology Business Incubators with startups licensed by the local governments. Like the U.S. It went bankrupt in 1997.).
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Campus Entrepreneurship
DECEMBER 14, 2011
That’s the idea behind Blueseed, which aims to create a visa-free, floating incubator for international entrepreneurs off the California coast near Silicon Valley. The most successful can then inspire change in governments around the world.” via A Start-Up Incubator That Floats – NYTimes.com. Anarchists?
David Teten
OCTOBER 1, 2015
incubators, e.g., the many options in New York. Many industries are very difficult to penetrate from the outside, e.g. healthcare, education, government services, and more. In exchange for equity, we discount the project cost, which is already low because we offshore most of our development, by 10-15%. Rock Health).
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 24, 2010
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. For consumer hardware, no startup has to build their own factory as the costs are absorbed by offshore manufacturers.
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. Optimizing profit above else led to wholesale offshoring of manufacturing and entire industries in order to lower costs.
Steve Blank
MAY 9, 2017
Government and the enterprise are now followers rather than leaders. And for consumer hardware, no startup has to build their own factory as the costs are absorbed by offshore manufacturers. What this means is that the emergence of incubators and super angels have dramatically expanded the sources of seed capital.
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