Steve Blank
JANUARY 17, 2023
This post previously appeared in the Harvard Business Review. Three types of organizations – Incubators, Accelerators and Venture Studios – have emerged to reduce the risk of early-stage startup failure by helping teams find product/market fit and raise initial capital. I pointed out that there were. Reducing Startup Risk.
YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 14, 2011
But those same words could easily be applied to the Singapore-based technology entrepreneurs present at Techventure 2011. Just a bit of background – the high-tech start-up scene in Singapore is said to be growing healthily in recent years. Plans for more Singapore-based technology incubators. Singapore Innovation.
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Steve Blank
JANUARY 30, 2013
Since there weren’t corporate resource for further evaluation, (one of our programs’ constraints was not to create new permanent infrastructures for implementation,) we had no choice but to assign the idea to a business unit and ask them to perform due diligence the best they could. (By
VC Cafe
FEBRUARY 15, 2017
Artificial Intelligence is an important, foundational technology that gets more important every year and will be used to solve more and more problems going forward. These events mean that technology is advancing fast enough to make better decisions than humans in order to accomplish a given task. Chris Rust, Clear Ventures).
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 1, 2019
The best way to explain the “gap” in the Traction Gap Framework is to review the three phases that every startup must pass through in order to succeed. In the go-to-product phase, you can get help from a plethora of incubators, accelerators and angel investors. Mind the Traction Gap? Go-to-Product. Go-to-Market. Go-to-Scale.
VC Cafe
JULY 29, 2016
Soon after, Rakuten purchased Israeli VoIP startup Viber for $900 million and pharma giant Takeda joined J&J and Orbimed in the FutuRX bio incubator. To reduce risk, many foreign technology firms maintain R&D abroad, with local distributors overseeing localization, sales and marketing. These should be protected in Japan.”
David Teten
MARCH 14, 2018
The firm attracts deal flow by promising a decision (positive or negative) in under 2 weeks, with minimal paperwork and without repeating due diligence. I’m distinguishing these from incubators and accelerators.) For more on this, see The 9 Steps of Using Technology to Improve Investing in Private Companies.
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