Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2013

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. The first wave of startups began when R&D centers and universities began to provide the technology and seed capital for new startups that were spin-outs or spin-offs. All the usual caveats apply.

Venture Capital 271

Venture Capital China Offshore SBIR 271

Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2013

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. The first wave of startups began when R&D centers and universities began to provide the technology and seed capital for new startups that were spin-outs or spin-offs. All the usual caveats apply.

Venture Capital 163

Venture Capital China Offshore SBIR 163

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Witness, for example, this terrific Fast Company article on Bill Nguyen , serial entrepreneur who’s seventh startup “Color” famously raised $41m for a new mobile app before it even launched. Freeloader — On $3m invested, sold for $38m in 1996 — shut down in 1997. The launch, by the way, was a failure.

IPO 240

IPO Flash Bootstrapping Private Equity 240

Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2016

The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. She came to the GSA as a Presidential Innovation Fellow in 2013, where she worked on the development of MyUSA.gov. The goal is help these companies take their tech.

Small Business Administration 120

Small Business Administration SBIR United States Entrepreneur 120