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Why Governments Don’t Get Startups

Steve Blank

Not understanding and agreeing what “Entrepreneur&# and “Startup” mean can sink an entire country’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. Who’s an entrepreneur? There are six distinct organizational paths for entrepreneurs: lifestyle business , small business, scalable startup, buyable startup, large company, and social entrepreneur.

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Grant Applications Often Provide Early-Stage Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

A critical stage for most first-time entrepreneurs is getting their idea developed into at least a prototype to validate their technology. This process costs money, which professional investors are not willing to contribute, since their interest is in scaling a proven product and business model into a growth business.

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Seven New and Unique Business Ideas for Budding Entrepreneurs

The Startup Magazine

Here are seven new and unique business ideas for budding entrepreneurs. The demand for low-cost clothing and other items led to the growth of reselling business. A facility management company can be a good start for budding entrepreneurs who want to tackle big companies such as banking and government offices.

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8 Attributes Of Entrepreneurs Who Transform Society

Startup Professionals Musings

Every entrepreneur has an idea for transforming a market with innovative new technology, or transforming society with a new process. Entrepreneurs who have been really transformative, like Steve Jobs and Walt Disney, seemed to know how to deal with all the right elements. Government matters. Failure is an option.

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How Venture Capitalists and Government Can Promote Entrepreneurship

David Teten

I’ve recently met with several universities, nonprofits, and government employees who’ve all asked the same question: how can we promote entrepreneurship? The first and primary role of a government is to provide basic public goods competently. To the extent that the government fails to do that, it will retard job creation.

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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition  – Wrap Up

Steve Blank

VCs and entrepreneurs can play a role in addressing the challenge by shunning known sources of adversarial capital. By week 2 of the class students formed teams around a specific technology challenge facing a US government agency and worked throughout the course to develop their own proposals to help the U.S. Team ShortCircuit.

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain Their Major Accomplishments In 2021

Hearpreneur

In the last few days of 2021, we took some time to ask a few entrepreneurs and businesses what their biggest business accomplishments were. #1- I'm proud of the fact that we've managed to bring down costs and managed to solve many of the problems we initially had. So, I've never conveyed mixed cost signals like that to our staff.