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The Industry Needs to do One Thing to Avoid Regulation: Provide Better Phone Support

Hunter Walker

We are dependent on them for our lives and our businesses, and we make them billions of dollars, and their employees wealthy. And that’s why I’m challenging our government to regulate them. But they won’t help us navigate through this new world they’re creating. Not about monopolies or privacy or copyright, but customer service.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley 12: The Rise of “Risk Capital.

Steve Blank

to spur innovation was a new government agency to fund new companies. The Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) Act in 1958 guaranteed that for every dollar a bank or financial institution invested in a new company, the U.S. government would invest three (up to $300,000.) In response, one of the many U.S.