ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2021

In addition, they’re fiercely competing with every other burgeoning business that is vying for the same funding, compounding the obstacles they face when trying to grow their business. In the past, securing capital was not unlike fielding an organized racket at the hands of predatory bankers and other similar types of lenders.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

It’s the one thing I miss having switched from player to manager – I love the joy of winning and of competing. I’m dropping everything non-portfolio related in the next few weeks and setting my sights on righting my wrong. I had been competing to win a contract at Thames Water, the largest water company in the UK.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

It’s the one thing I miss having switched from player to manager – I love the joy of winning and of competing. I’m dropping everything non-portfolio related in the next few weeks and setting my sights on righting my wrong. I had been competing to win a contract at Thames Water, the largest water company in the UK.

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View from Seed

APRIL 21, 2015

Matt Prince , Co-Founder and CEO, CloudFlare (Web performance and security to protect and accelerate websites; $72.1 I couldn’t believe how inefficient and non-transparent the rental industry was and I knew then that I’d one day come back to take it on. Clark: Competing through Social Networks. That’s invaluable.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 21, 2020

But even if he’d had more knowledge about the fundamentals of epidemiology, and if he’d shown more competence in directing the resources he had at his disposal, knowledge and competence alone are no longer enough to effectively combat the spread of pandemics. Its streamlined nature makes it more responsive than most governments.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

Economic inequality and opportunities for job growth are directly correlated with overall spending levels on R&D and with the geographic concentration (or distribution) or those dollars — both public funding (government) and private (as with VC). As noted above, government spending on R&D has fallen and at the same time U.S.

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Gust

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Likewise, founders can benefit from understanding basic characteristics of the overall legal structure, formation and governance documents, rights and responsibilities of team members, etc. Stepping off the soapbox, let’s examine the highest level “To Do” list for a new startup: Formation, Governance and Equity. Newco, Inc.”)

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 8, 2018

The dividing line between matches and non-matches is called the threshold. A false non-match error is the failure to match a person who is enrolled in the system. If the system needs to be very secure, you can increase the threshold. You will be more certain that every match is correct, but you will get more false non-matches.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Some are strategic peers, some are near peers in specific areas, some are threats as non-state disrupters operating with no rules. In most industries, manufacturing is no longer a core competence of the U.S. Pete Newell and I have spent a lot of time bringing continuous innovation to government organizations. Newell ran the U.S.

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Up and Running

APRIL 24, 2018

Of course, you will need a killer product—but, you will also need a competent growth strategy that will encompass comprehensive marketing, sales, research and development, technology, and beyond. Secure timely funding. That’s why having a revenue-minded focus from the early stages helps to secure funding.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

I’ve recently met with several universities, nonprofits, and government employees who’ve all asked the same question: how can we promote entrepreneurship? The first and primary role of a government is to provide basic public goods competently. To the extent that the government fails to do that, it will retard job creation.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 15, 2020

For school lunches and food security, and so many surfaces. ER : A lot of folks I've been talking to about this, they're not accustomed to asking the government to help and it feels a little weird. Start-ups don't always interact with the government. The government knows that stimulus is important for the economy.

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Up and Running

APRIL 13, 2016

Furthermore, if medical marijuana is not legalized in your state, any dispensary is liable to be shut down by the federal government. It’s also important that most, if not all members of your community (even the non-users who won’t be your customers) are comfortable with a dispensary in their area. Cost of license. Employee salary.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

And, there are potential tax traps as well, especially when Non Qualified options are traded for services. Your investors, the smart ones at least, are certainly making decisions the other way among competing deals. Board and Governance issues arise from day one in most startups. Even for ISO’s, have you heard of form 83(b)?

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Growthink Blog

JANUARY 3, 2018

A Key Lesson from their 2017 Success: As a business competes in a cyclical market like housing, when market conditions turn strongly in our favor as they did for homebuilders last year, be extremely aggressive and highly urgent in pursuit of as many new sales and customers as possible. DNT Express (logistics) secured $2.2M

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

I’m teaching my first non-lean start up class in a decade at Stanford next week; Technology, Innovation and Modern War : Keeping America’s Edge in an Era of Great Power Competition. The output of these classes is providing hundreds of solutions to critical national security problems every year. — Why This Course?

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 14, 2011

Q3: With regards to security, how will recent attacks against Google, Sony, and Epsilon impact the industry? This is interesting, because in a pre-digital world security issues are usually isolated geographically. For the first time in history, we see wide reaching implications of security breaches.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 25, 2021

A week ago I got invited to an “innovation hero” award ceremony at a government agency. Inspired by her own work problem, she talked to her peers and other stakeholders, built multiple minimum viable products, and figured out how to get engineering, policy, legal, security and everyone else in the enterprise to actually approve it.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

We just completed the sixth week of our new national security class at Stanford – Technology, Innovation and Great Power Competition. 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. Class 2 focused on China, the U.S.’s

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 14, 2011

Q3: With regards to security, how will recent attacks against Google, Sony, and Epsilon impact the industry? This is interesting, because in a pre-digital world security issues are usually isolated geographically. For the first time in history, we see wide reaching implications of security breaches.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2018

For example, Bluestone , an online jewelry startup from India, was trying to compete with the traditional brick and mortar jewelry business market. Try to outsource non-strategic aspects of your business to minimize expenses. You may also be able to apply for government-subsidized bank loans or soft loans. Bank loans.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 10, 2021

That’s the thing about someone who is a government systems wonk. They want the government to stay out of their way but they definitely want the government to come and ticket the car blocking the driveway, to stop construction noise, and to solve homelessness but definitely not to put low-income housing on their street.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 21, 2014

To my mind, it’s fear of the unknown that holds most of us back and not the thought of whether we’re competent enough or intelligent enough or whatever else we feel is needed to run a business. And, depending on the business you start, there may also be various government incentives. Is it about becoming a millionaire within a year?

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 2, 2021

This is a company that when they were founded, it wasn’t just that they were competing against other companies, but they were competing against industries and regulations and governments that wanted to essentially regulate them out of existence. They had to fight for the right to compete. We had to take hardcore action.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 10, 2020

A quality education for our children in a safe and secure space shouldn't be impossible to achieve. We need to wait for the government to fix it." Government is. That kind of ties into another concept that it has been trendy, but it hasn't gone mainstream in education, which is mastery learning or competency-based learning.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 13, 2012

Simply because you are going to bump into privacy and government regulations. This is problem for governments, privacy regulators and the public to solve. It represents the queries done on Google by folks who were logged into their Google.com account or using https (secure) search. So accept what you can do.

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

Government Regulations I turned to the class and said, “The rest of you can keep building your company and shipping your product because you don’t need to worry about government regulations. Competing with such companies is pure pleasure – just harp on their mis-understandings of the market. Non-linearity is approaching.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

I’ve made a few grammatical and non-substantive updates for clarity. It’s my hope that some of it can be useful to others, specifically other under-represented founders or non-traditional markets. (I And, while working to build the business we want, a competitor in California secured resources to far outpace us. Of course I do.

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Tim Keane

MAY 27, 2010

And to me that means competing – and winning – in business – with an eye toward the purpose that we strive for.   In the EU, for instance, it’s virtually impossible to dismiss anyone – for non-performance or anything short of outright theft – caught on video tape by a government certified camera operator.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 17, 2020

But as A16Z points out in the “ The rise of lifestyle streamers “, a new audience has emerged, hungry for non-gaming content. Non-gaming streams on Twitch are growing fast ( source ). Livestreaming of all sorts became a possible substitute, as people crave a close substitute to in-real-life engagement.

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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The most basic approach is to tie identity to an address or public/private key pair on top of an open, well-secured blockchain like Bitcoin or Ethereum. an image) and are frequently referred to as NFTs or non-fungible tokens. And manual migration is non-trivial for most users. and new competitive smart contract platforms.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Non-Technical Co-Founders Co-Founders Technical Co-founders Finding Co-Founders Startups & "How Important Are Ideas?" Unless the founding team has *competent* developers in these areas, the venture is doomed. 24 Comments • Nov 8, 2010 I love this answer.

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venturehacks.com

MARCH 21, 2008

They can even add more value than an independent board member because they don’t have to deal with corporate governance. While an advisor typically does not agree to non-compete or non-solicit terms, he/she should agree to notify you if and when he/she begins to work with a potential competitor.

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Once we make this leap, certification can play a more active role in helping the higher education system clearly convey to students what skills and competencies they should pursue if their primary objective is to optimize their economic futures. And then we need to take that record and make it part of a fully networked certification platform.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Security, Cloud, NoSQL databases, etc. Also, yesterday the winner of the latest Crunchies was GitHub and #2 was Palantir, both non-consumer, big data organizer companies. And then medium-size businesses start to use it, and then large businesses start to use it, and then eventually the government starts to use it.

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Up and Running

APRIL 18, 2016

In this manner, we determined what our market niche could be, and established whether or not we could compete in the existing market, and what it would take to succeed,” he says. Find out who the major players are that you’ll be competing against, determine who your ideal customer is, and define what they want.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 9, 2020

We just held our fourth sessions of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. In this session we provided the students with an appreciation of how the United States National Security Strategy arrived at the conclusion that we are in an era of great power competition with Russia and China.

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