Steve Blank

MAY 12, 2015

Here’s Edmund’s description of the I-Corps Lite program. SBIR/STTR Program and Startup Seed Funding. The Small Business Innovative Research ( SBIR ) and Small Business Technology Transfer ( STTR ) programs are startup seed funds created by Congress to encourage U.S. were funded by the SBIR program.

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Steve Blank

JULY 28, 2011

The NSF has announced the Innovation Corps – a program to take the most promising research projects in American university laboratories and turn them into startups. Each team accepted into the program will receive $50,000. If this program works it will change how we connect basic research to the business world.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 1, 2020

This article previously appeared in the Harvard Business Review. Paycheck Protection program and the Economic Injury Disaster Loan program. Check if the the Paycheck Protection Program , ( here and here ) which provides 100% federally guaranteed loans to small businesses, can apply to your company.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 20, 2014

Most teams have a reluctance and willingness to “go for it” when they finally do have a scalable business and have validated the key aspects of their business model. This “small business” mindset is a holdover of how capital starved early stage startups are/were in Oregon. Founders Pad. Bend needed its own venture firm.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Not all start ups want to go in that direction – some will opt instead to become a small business. There’s nothing wrong with a business that supports you and perhaps an extended family. channel partners and Chinese manufacturers and customer acquisition and activation programs outside their home country.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 31, 2011

One highlight of the girls Entrepreneurial Program is the annual “Entrepreneurial Night” that showcases the newly created businesses for both the school and the wider Silicon Valley community. Students that age can master the basics of a small business. Lessons Learned. The lessons will last a lifetime.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

I reminded my fellow advisory board members that in 1959, at the dawn of the computer age, the Defense Department was the largest user of computers for business applications. However, there was no common business programing language. And 20 years later, it did the same for the ADA programming language. Lessons Learned.

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Steve Blank

JULY 11, 2016

The program examines the DNA of entrepreneurs: what makes them tick, how they came up with their ideas; and explores the habits that make them successful, and the highs and lows that pushed them forward. Jessica Mah , founder of InDinero , provider of accounting software and tax services for small businesses. Jessica Mah.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 29, 2016

The program examines the DNA of entrepreneurs: what makes them tick, how they came up with their ideas; and explores the habits that make them successful, and the highs and lows that pushed them forward. (And Sarah Calhoun has spent two decades building nonprofits and small businesses. And download any of the past shows here.).

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

There are six distinct organizational paths for entrepreneurs: lifestyle business , small business, scalable startup, buyable startup, large company, and social entrepreneur. Small Business Startups: Work to Feed the Family. million small businesses in the U.S. Six Types of Startups – Pick One.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The summit opened with a panel of Investors sharing their insights of what the funding environment for entrepreneurs, non-profits and small businesses will look like as the economy recovers. There were some great examples of enabling students in Africa to participate in programs from Australia, which had never happened before.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2016

The program examines the DNA of entrepreneurs: what makes them tick, how they came up with their ideas; and explores the habits that make them successful, and the highs and lows that pushed them forward. Small Business Administration , and Hillary Hartley , deputy executive director of 18F. Want to be a guest on the show?

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2011

I spent two weeks of December in Chile as a guest of Professor Cristóbal García, Director of EmprendeUC at the Catholic University of Chile , which just signed up a 3-year collaboration partnership with Stanford’s Technology Ventures Program. Small Business versus Scalable Startup versus Corporate Entrepreneurship.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 21, 2015

The program examines the DNA of entrepreneurs: what makes them tick, how they came up with their ideas; and explores the habits that make them successful, and the highs, lows and pivots that pushed them forward. . … Junior Achievement is a program for high school kids to start companies.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2020

Other teams tackled problems in travel, small business, sustainability, etc. 3 Small Business. 20 teams just finished their program. Over 40% were working on telemedicine, 28% in remote education or remote work. The 50 team concepts at Stanford fell into these categories: 21 Health/Telemedicine. 9 Education.

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2009

I hate business plan competitions. I Love Business Plan Competitions I had a breakfast with a friend who has founded a few companies in Thailand and started the New Ventures Program at one of their universities. If winning $5-10K is your goal, you’re not a scalable startup, just a small business.

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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. Small Business Entrepreneurship. What’s not to like?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 19, 2010

Or is it something about those locations (network effect, risk capital, nurturing network) that makes entrepreneurs in other parts of the country start small businesses or even spend their lives in a 9 to 5 job? (I’ve Hint – Unit 8200 and the Talpiot program.). I’ve written and presented a bit on this subject.).

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 19, 2016

In my neighborhood, successful entrepreneurship meant small businesses entrepreneurs. Before my parents divorced they had owned a small grocery store. No one I knew had ever started a company (other than a small business). I wouldn’t eat in a real restaurant until I went to college.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

Great art and great programming are fostered within a community that shares an ethic of care for its members. Martin , on June 15, 2009 at 10:24 am Said: Silicon Valley culture is not the only culture implicated in this manner as a contributor the disintegration of family and community. Go figure.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 19, 2016

In my neighborhood, successful entrepreneurship meant small businesses entrepreneurs. Before my parents divorced they had owned a small grocery store. No one I knew had ever started a company (other than a small business). I wouldn’t eat in a real restaurant until I went to college.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Ampex’s first customer was Bing Crosby who wanted to record his radio programs for rebroadcast (and had exclusive distribution rights.) Ampex business took off when Terman introduced Ampex founder Alex Poniatoff to Joseph and Henry McMicking. into believing it was behind the Soviet Union in innovation. In response, one of the many U.S.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

In cybersecurity, any individual, any business of any size, from a small business all the way up to a giant bank, is at the end of the day subjected to the worst that adversaries of any sort – foreign nations, organized criminal gangs – can throw their way. It’s either small businesses, or individuals.

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Steve Blank

MAY 30, 2016

The program examines the DNA of entrepreneurs: what makes them tick, how they came up with their ideas; and explores the habits that make them successful, and the highs and lows that pushed them forward. To date, more than 800 teams of scientists and engineers have gone through the program which is built on the Lean LaunchPad curriculum.

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