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Building a new startup hub

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, August 26, 2009 Building a new startup hub Last week, I had a unique opportunity to spend some time in Boulder at the behest of TechStars. Provide early seed capital, and be the ones to make those introductions. And do your customer development.

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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

The watershed moment was in 2009 when the co-founder of Netscape, Marc Andreessen, formed a venture firm and started to invest in founders with the goal to teach them how to be CEOs for the long term. A unicorn is a startup with a market capitalization north of a billion dollars. Andreessen realized that the game had changed.

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