Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The legends of Silicon Valley?—?two And there is so much money around being thrown at so many entrepreneurs that many firms don’t even care about board seats, governance rights or heaven forbid doing work with the company because that would eat into the VCs time needed to chase 5 more deals. two founders in a garage?—?(HP

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2018

My most recent book, The Startup Way , is all about the methods and tools big corporations, government, and non-profits can use to innovate: think of it as Lean Startup at scale. One of the stories I tell in The Startup Way comes from the Federal Government. Investment bankers are staking out your house.”

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

to spur innovation was a new government agency to fund new companies. The Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) Act in 1958 guaranteed that for every dollar a bank or financial institution invested in a new company, the U.S. government would invest three (up to $300,000.) In response, one of the many U.S.

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