Steve Blank
OCTOBER 10, 2011
I was invited to Finland as part of Stanford’s Engineering Technology Venture Program partnership with Aalto University. Unique to Finland with its strong cultural emphasis on equality and the redistribution of wealth is a business press that doesn’t understand startups and is overtly hostile to their success.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 7, 2011
I spent the month of September lecturing, and interacting with (literally) thousands of entrepreneurs in two emerging startup markets, Finland and Russia. This is the first of two posts about Finland and entrepreneurship. Part 2 with more observations about Finland and the Lessons Learned will follow shortly.
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ReadWriteStart
OCTOBER 13, 2011
I spent the month of September lecturing, and interacting with (literally) thousands of entrepreneurs in two emerging startup markets, Finland and Russia. This is the first of two posts about Finland and entrepreneurship. steve blank in finland sept 2011 View more documents from steve blank. 9-to-5 Venture Capital. Discuss.
ReadWriteStart
DECEMBER 29, 2010
To my surprise, the ideas and technology behind that startups were not superior to the ones we have in Finland. Countries such as the UK , Russia and Finland are trying to replicate its ecosystem, to stimulate their local industries. The incubators and co-working spaces are on par with what we have. Silicon Valley is a hub.
The Next Web
MARCH 3, 2016
Some of the programs take equity in exchange for a seed round, some are free for participants, others work anywhere in between those two models. At the moment of writing, Seed-DB, a global database of seed stage accelerators, listed 235 programs (both active and defunct) that 5,688 startups had gone through.
Startup Lessons Learned
MAY 14, 2009
Unlike other incubator-led programs, this workshop is open to anyone who wants to learn, and it does not require companies take investment or give out equity. Take a look and let me know what you think.
Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 5, 2010
We also reached out to companies that make products useful to accelerating your Build-Measure-Learn feedback loop, from cloud-hosted Selenium provider Sauce Labs (disclaimer: where I have equity) to ScrumPad (where I dont) and many in-between (a sampling is below, but you should really jus t click through to see the whole smorgasbord).
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