Steve Blank

DECEMBER 10, 2009

A few caveats, this post is not legal advice, it’s not even advice, and it deals with law in the United States. A patent is a government granted monopoly to prevent others from making, using or selling your invention – even if the other parties infringement was innocent or accidental. Posted in Technology, Venture Capital.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

These instruments of national power employed in a “whole of government approach” to advance a state’s interests are known by the acronym DIME -FIL. Our first guest speaker was Rear Admiral Lorin Selby , Chief of Naval Research, United States Navy. It is the “venture capital” of the Navy and Marine Corps.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

COMMUNICATIONS GIANT ARRIS GROUP BUYS ISRAEL’S BIGBAND NETWORKS FOR $158 MLN. is acquiring digital-video networking company BigBand Networks Inc. Israel Corporation unit Cerro del Aguila SA has agreed to build a 510-megawatt hydroelectric power station in Peru at an investment of $680 million. for about $158.1

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Up and Running

JUNE 13, 2017

The Association of Enterprise Opportunities , a national organization that advocates for micro business development, states that roughly 8,000 business loan requests are declined each weekday in the United States. Accion also provides microfinance and larger loans to small businesses throughout the United States.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2013

China has embraced state capitalism in a way Wall Street can only dream about. Startups, Venture Capital and the Communist Party: how did this happen in China? Research universities also became an integral part of the military ecosystem as the federal government pumped billions into supporting science.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2013

China has embraced state capitalism in a way Wall Street can only dream about. Startups, Venture Capital and the Communist Party: how did this happen in China? Research universities also became an integral part of the military ecosystem as the federal government pumped billions into supporting science.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2011

Their firm, Andreessen/Horowtiz , has been prescient enough to invest in social networks, consumer and mobile applications and the cloud long before others. While most of the social networks, cloud computing, web and mobile app companies we see today will fail, a few will literally remake our lives. Here are two views how.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 30, 2015

When speaking about the blockchain to many people in the United States, I get a puzzled look on why the technology matters. I didn’t take out my phone – still a feature phone, this was the year the iPhone was released – as I was told I may be followed and arrested if the government thought I was a journalist.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 30, 2015

When speaking about the blockchain to many people in the United States, I get a puzzled look on why the technology matters. I didn’t take out my phone – still a feature phone, this was the year the iPhone was released – as I was told I may be followed and arrested if the government thought I was a journalist.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

In 2019, we’ll be doubling down on this effort as we are hiring a GM for our CXO Advisory Board & Network ( job description here ). In startup board rooms all across the United States, founders and investors are asking how do we keep scaling our teams? AWS Reinvent Survivor Dinner with founders, Fortune 500 execs, and VCs.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 30, 2015

When speaking about the blockchain to many people in the United States, I get a puzzled look on why the technology matters. I didn’t take out my phone – still a feature phone, this was the year the iPhone was released – as I was told I may be followed and arrested if the government thought I was a journalist.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

The results: 13 Universities will offer the course in the next year, government sponsors committed to keep sending hard problems to the course, the Department of Defense is expanding their use of H4D to include a classified version, and corporate partners are expanding their efforts to support the course and to create their own internal H4D courses.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

I lovingly call him the curmudgeon of fintech – in this episode we go deep into how he is building a venture capital firm and practice, not just running a fund and how he views the world of fintech investing. What I mean by this is that a lot of folks are perched on soap boxes across social networks, shouting from the hilltops.

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Venture Capital will Rise Again. Venture capitalists invested $4.8 Before the “great deal crisis” of 2008 – 2010, venture capital quarterly funding averages were in the $7.5 This is a very bad thing, and whether folks want to hear it or not, there is really very little government can do about it.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

by expanding startups access to capital (with two $1 billion programs ); creating a national network of entrepreneurship education, commercializing federally-funded research and development programs and getting rid of tax and paperwork barriers for startups. Filed under: Technology , Venture Capital. What’s not to like?

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VC Adventure

APRIL 16, 2020

Entrepreneurship in the United States has been changing in ways that many people have not yet recognized. Thousands of small businesses are probably gone for good because of the failure of the federal government to act quickly enough. billion venture capital firm in Boulder, Colorado.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Texas is the most promising technology market in the United States. Are they running from high prices, high taxes, dysfunctional government, and wildfires? All of the investors, all of the big companies, all of the government groups?—?they What’s bringing them here? Are they drawn to Texas or moving away from California?

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

The results: 13 Universities will offer the course in the next year, government sponsors committed to keep sending hard problems to the course, the Department of Defense is expanding their use of H4D to include a classified version, and corporate partners are expanding their efforts to support the course and to create their own internal H4D courses.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

As companies and cities wrestle with the future of work, future of cities, and future of tech made possible in a post-COVID future, the question is whether it also impacts — and presents an opportunity to address — one of the greatest problems of our time: the unequal distribution of economic opportunity across the United States.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 7, 2012

As Managing Director of T2 Venture Capital , a Silicon Valley venture firm that helps build “innovation ecosystems” around the globe, Victor Hwang knows quite a lot about what it takes to create an environment where high-tech startups can grow and thrive. Photo courtesy of T2 Venture Capital.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 17, 2014

Many entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley believe that the financial services industry in the United States is “ripe for disruption. ” There are now 61mm unbanked citizens in the United States, and that number is rising. banking system is the Automated Clearing House network, broadly known as ACH. ACH Payments.

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thebarefootvc

APRIL 9, 2018

From students studying cryptoeconomics to faculty guiding independent studies on the new asset class, it is clear that the oldest university in the United States is on board with the newest technology wave. Others wanted to know whether venture capital was going away. What were students most interested in?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2009

The motivation in the mid 1950’s for these new startups was a crisis – we were in the midst of the cold war and the United States military and intelligence agencies were rearming as fast as they could. These technology startups had no risk capital – just customers/purchase orders from government/military/intelligence agencies.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

Yes, the country north of the 49th parallel may have 1/10th the population of the United States , but when it comes down to pure entrepreneurship it punches far above its weight class. cities, but the Canadian government remains at the ready to attract and assist new startups. There are a number of reasons for this.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

2018 set yet another all-time record for the number of paper books sold in the United States, as has been repeatedly true during the era of Amazon. Google realized that being the way to find the world’s information was a blitzscalable market, thanks to the network effects in its AdWords revenue engine. It’s a great business.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 24, 2012

At least one venture capital firm is out to make money helping them out. It’s the emerging middle class of the United States.”. There’s a lot of money in poor people. KPMG reports that America’s 88 million consumers who are “unbanked” (no bank account) or “underbanked” (no credit) earn $1.3 trillion a year.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

It’s been awhile since I’ve posted here about the value of the local Small Business Development Centers (SBDCs), a network of about 1,000 locations in the United States, generally a great place to go for frontline, street-level small-business advice. Details are slightly different from state to state.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Our guest speaker was Rear Admiral Lorin Selby , Chief of Naval Research, United States Navy. It is the “venture capital” of the Navy and Marine Corps. Founded in August 1946 in the aftermath of World War II, ONR provided support of research projects at universities when government funding to universities had dried up.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Box has announced the launch of Box Accelerator , a global data transfer network that pushes the speed, security and scale of the Box service for business and enterprise users for a faster and more streamlined service. Box has seen impressive growth throughout the United States and now in Europe. Rapid expansion.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

Yes, the country north of the 49th parallel may have 1/10th the population of the United States , but when it comes down to pure entrepreneurship it punches far above its weight class. cities, but the Canadian government remains at the ready to attract and assist new startups. There are a number of reasons for this.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. but: Something is Still Missing.

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Pascal's View

MARCH 4, 2009

speak with legislators and government agency representatives about the need for. Without new approaches to collaboration among government institutions, corporations, universities, and venture capitalists, U.S. venture capital, and new commitments by private investors to funding of. I’ve been to Washington, D.C.

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Pascal's View

MAY 10, 2009

Gelb accurately diagnoses the " weakening fundamentals of the United States.  … The United States is now the biggest debtor nation in history, and no nation with a massive debt has ever remained a great power.    It is too depressing to do so, too much for most people to bear.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Other noteworthy and emerging labor marketplaces: HackerOne (*) is the leading global marketplace that coordinates the world’s largest corporate “bug bounty” programs with a network of the world’s leading hackers. RigUp was founded by Xuan Yong and Mike Witte in Austin, Texas in March of 2014.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. Big things, like obscuring the networking stack under so many countless layers of abstraction that it’s virtually impossible to even imagine what bytes are actually going over the wire.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

If you read the headlines or talk with zealous friends you may well think cryptocurrencies are either our savior from bureaucratic, ossified governments or are purely speculative Ponzi schemes. In more than a decade of writing about the Internet and tech-enabled businesses I’ve learned that mobs don’t do nuance well.

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