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Building a new startup hub

Startup Lessons Learned

Provide early seed capital, and be the ones to make those introductions. And do your customer development. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Accept that many successful companies are going to want to be backed by big-name firms in other cities.

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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

For life sciences it was the Genentech IPO in 1980 that proved to investors that life science startups could make them a ton of money. The second thing that’s changed is that we’re now Compressing the Product Development Cycle. A unicorn is a startup with a market capitalization north of a billion dollars.

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