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The Complete Guide to SBA Loans

Up and Running

territory including the United States, Puerto Rico, Guam and the U.S. If ‘debt financing’ – how we refer to these types of loans – is not a route you want to go down, the SBA has offers a couple of other options, including a Surety Bonds program , a Venture Capital program and various Grants. Virgin Islands.

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Out of the Crisis #9, the founders of Frontline Foods on the moral imperative to support frontline workers at scale

Startup Lessons Learned

Ryan Sarver was a partner at venture capital firm Redpoint. So they came onto a lot of people's radars around the hurricane in Puerto Rico. The founders of Frontline Foods are three of these people. Sydney Gressel is a nurse in the pediatric emergency department at UCSF's Benioff Children's Hospital.

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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

I lived through the time when working in my first job in Ann Arbor Michigan we had to get out a map to find out that San Jose was not only in Puerto Rico but there was a city with that same name in California. Venture Capital used to be a tight club clustered around formal firms located in Silicon Valley, Boston, and New York.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 15 – Mid Term– Congressman Mike Gallagher

Steve Blank

I think there’s going to be a serious effort to reshore manufacturing, or perhaps revitalize Puerto Rico as a hub for manufacturing of advanced pharmaceutical ingredients. It wasn’t that they wanted to go to GSB and then make a bunch of money doing venture capital in Silicon Valley.

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Out of the Crisis #22: Ron Klain on pandemic response and preparedness, entrepreneurship, and rebuilding trust in institutions

Startup Lessons Learned

If you go back to what he did in Puerto Rico after the hurricane, if you go back to what he did in Haiti and other places, what he did is exactly what you're saying, which is he found ways to feed people so effectively, so efficiently that they are now the standards that the government increasingly uses when it responds to a humanitarian crisis.