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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

Most entrepreneurs today don’t remember the Dot-Com bubble of 1995 or the Dot-Com crash that followed in 2000. This same risk averse, conserve the cash, VC mindset would return after the 2008 meltdown of the housing market.). Both companies and government agencies struggle with how to deliver innovation at speed.

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Business Immigration With CanadaCIS: How To Start A Successful Business In Canada

YoungUpstarts

Over the years, Canada has been a choice location for entrepreneurs and businesses across the different facets of endeavors and industries. Following its show of strength and economic resilience through its 2008 financial crisis, Canada has proven to be a force to reckon with and a worthy role model to other countries. Investor Visa.

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Calling Financial Innovators

VC Adventure

The Kauffman Foundation published an article last week that my New Builders co-author, Elizabeth MacBride, and I wrote about the inspiration for writing the book and – related – about how our systems of finance and support need to evolve to meet the needs of today’s entrepreneurs. Financing at scale.

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Government Shouldn’t Be In The Accelerator Business

Feld Thoughts

This article originally appeared online at Inc.com in an article titled Government Shouldn’t Be In The Accelerator Business. But I don’t think government should be funding these accelerators, nor do I think they need to. without government funding, being run as entrepreneurial ventures for profit by entrepreneurs.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: How Do You Catalyze A Region's Entrepreneurship?

ReadWriteStart

Today, building Internet businesses, or businesses that are primarily marketed through the Internet, is viable for entrepreneurs all over the world. In Singapore, the government has been extremely supportive, and there is entrepreneurial activity, although we have not yet seen very significant companies emerge. It needs to be chiseled.

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Why governments support venture capital

The Equity Kicker

The Canadian government announcement yesterday of a $400m plan to strengthen the Canadian venture capital industry is the latest in a long series of similar announcements and initiatives from governments around the world that put government cash into VC funds alongside private money to make it more attractive for private investors.

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An IPO Exit Strategy Puts the Entrepreneur at Risk

Startup Professionals Musings

Many entrepreneurs still dream of “going public,” making billions of dollars, and playing with the big boys. IPOs in 2008, the market was up to a still trivial 159 in 2011. With Sarbanes-Oxley, the CEO, CFO, and the Board of Directors are all assumed to have full knowledge of all government standards of compliance and reporting.