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Update on America’s Slipping Global Competitiveness– Implications for Intellectual Property Development of Senate Bill 515

Pascal's View

As we consider the broad implications of this polarizing issue, we must first step back and remember that inventors and investors devote time, energy and risk capital to innovate new products and technologies. offshore companies with lower labor costs, fixed currencies and weaker environmental standards).

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The Endless Frontier: U.S. Science and National Industrial Policy (part 1)

Steve Blank

but became much less so in the last decade when the bottom-line drove industries offshore. government’s role in setting investment policy, venture capital has set the direction for what new industries attract capital. This approach was successful when U.S. industry was aligned with manufacturing in the U.S.,

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Be Careful What You Wish For…

Pascal's View

IPOs negatively impacts American entrepreneurs most of all, regardless of whether they have venture capital or private equity backing. are not in equilibrium, and we are seeing this proven by the increasingly robust and growing offshore markets for new listings. Innovation is global, and risk capital is mobile.

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How Venture Capitalists and Government Can Promote Entrepreneurship

David Teten

Like virtually the entire tech industry, I am particularly in favor of Startup Visa , which has the goal of stimulating our domestic startup community through acts to keep our foreign-born entrepreneurs in the United States. What other policy initiatives should the venture community be working on?

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Why Venture Capitalists Are Investing in International Startups

David Teten

Take a look at The Fortune Unicorn List : of the top 100 most valuable unicorns in 2016, 39 are currently based outside of the United States. Typically engineering, QA, and support are offshore, while CEO, sales, and marketing are in the US. Why are more US VCs investing in international startups? Determined Founders.

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Why Venture Capitalists Are Investing in International Startups

David Teten

Take a look at The Fortune Unicorn List : of the top 100 most valuable unicorns in 2016, 39 are currently based outside of the United States. Typically engineering, QA, and support are offshore, while CEO, sales, and marketing are in the US. Why are more US VCs investing in international startups? Determined Founders.

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Startup America – Dead On Arrival

Steve Blank

It should address not only the creation of new jobs, but also the continued hemorrhaging of jobs and entire strategic industries offshore. Today, the overwhelming number of entrepreneurs and startups in the United States are still small businesses. Filed under: Technology , Venture Capital. There are 5.7

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