Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

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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Restful Silicon Valley Puerto Rico San Jose 238

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

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. August 28, 2009 1:15 PM Derek Scruggs said.

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San Francisco Silicon Valley Startup Lean 113

Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2013

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. SBIR and STTR programs, the Torch Program’s funding for new ventures was limited to seed funding the front end. Like the U.S.

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Venture Capital China Offshore SBIR 275

Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2013

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. SBIR and STTR programs, the Torch Program’s funding for new ventures was limited to seed funding the front end. Like the U.S.

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Venture Capital China Offshore SBIR 167

Steve Blank

APRIL 28, 2016

Before co-founding Biota Technology , he was an investor and entrepreneur-in-residence at Seed Capital , a investing in science-based innovation. Switching from venture capital to startup founder required a different mindset, Ajay said: All day in a VC firm, you’re saying ‘no’. We built before testing.

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Entrepreneur Cofounder Seed Capital Texas 120

Steve Blank

APRIL 28, 2016

Before co-founding Biota Technology , he was an investor and entrepreneur-in-residence at Seed Capital , a investing in science-based innovation. Switching from venture capital to startup founder required a different mindset, Ajay said: All day in a VC firm, you’re saying ‘no’. We built before testing.

Entrepreneur 120

Entrepreneur Cofounder Seed Capital Texas 120

Software By Rob

JANUARY 8, 2019

Two-and-a-half months ago Einar Vollset and I announced TinySeed , the first startup accelerator designed for bootstrappers. Einar went through YC in 2009 so he’s witnessed the benefits first-hand. The response was overwhelming. Previously On.TinySeed. From the beginning, we knew we wanted to fund in “batches.”

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