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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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Midterm Election Issues Entrepreneurs and Small Business Owners Should Keep an Eye on

Up and Running

United States Small Business Friendliness Survey conducted in partnership with the Kauffman Foundation. While the 2016 presidential elections will define some of the key areas in which small businesses will see the biggest impact, today’s midterm elections, go part way to setting the stage for compromise.

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Funding for Women-Owned Businesses

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Female entrepreneurship has been on a steady rise in the United States, with the number of women-owned businesses nearly doubling between 1997 and 2017. Today, almost 40 percent of the nation’s privately held companies are owned by women, and women launch an average of 1,000 businesses per day.

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Why A Vaccine For COVID-19 Won’t Restore Small Businesses Overnight

YoungUpstarts

But let’s look at this through the eyes of small businesses. Outside of government, companies with less than $7 million in sales and fewer than 500 employees are widely considered small businesses by the U.S. Small Business Administration. And since that time, the total has possibly exceeded 200,000.

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain Their Major Accomplishments In 2021

Hearpreneur

Many businesses were launched and others were closed. 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- We set up channels of communication between our members and the government as well as recovery working groups.

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Small business Congress-watch: Three Pending Bills and Why They Matter

crowdSPRING Blog

I have written occasionally about legislation in Congress and how it impacts small businesses and startups, and three proposed laws have recently caught my attention. Congress makes a lot of noise about the importance of small businesses to our society, but their track record over the past few years has been abysmal, at best.