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Entrepreneurship for the 99%

Steve Blank

This is a 3-day program for entrepreneurship faculty from around the world how to teach entrepreneurship via the Lean LaunchPad approach ( business model canvas + customer development ) and bring their entrepreneurship curriculums into the 21st century. The reality is that the United States is still a nation of small businesses.

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How to Form a Corporation

Up and Running

Utah is often cited as having excellent online applications and forms. California can be appealing to California-based investors (particularly fast-growth tech companies) despite high income and corporate taxes, and franchise fees for all businesses regardless of size. Small Business Administration: . Primary sources.

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The Huge (And Very Small) Frontier For Venture Dollars

YoungUpstarts

Yet very small businesses (VSBs) are one of the last untapped bastions of innovation and, by association, venture dollars. But recent innovations in SaaS-driven business models have come of age on the backs of B2B solutions, and providers are finally learning how to cater to the underserved VSB market.

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Who are the Major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

David Teten

I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. We provide revenue-based funding and business acceleration support to service-based small businesses located outside of major capital markets such as Silicon Valley and New York City.”. “We

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

With a portfolio that includes food, tech, and services, the fund is industry-agnostic and focused on the overlooked and underrepresented with high-margin business models. is one of the early and most well-known Flexible VCs, based out of Salt Lake City, Utah. —– Indie.vc

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

online.wsj.com

Small Business. SMALL BUSINESS. more in Small Business. Harvard professor Noam Wasserman and WSJ small-business editor Vanessa OConnell took reader questions about avoiding start-up pitfalls on Sept. Small Business » Subscriber Content Read Preview. Loading… Careers.

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Changes in Software & Venture Capital – Part 2 of 3

Both Sides of the Table

This in turn has fueled incubation programs like YCombinator, TechStars, 500 Startups & many more to help early-stage teams launch businesses led by most technical founders who are getting coaching from seasoned management teams. In addition it is much easier to get distribution than it was in the pre Facebook, pre iPhone world.