Equity Partner Programming Seed Capital 
Steve Blank
APRIL 12, 2013
The previous post described how the Torch program built China’s innovation clusters. This post is about the rise of Chinese venture capital and how it helped build the countries entrepreneurial ecosystem. The Rise of Chinese Venture Capital. This helped the startups qualify for funding from banks and venture capital firms.
The Next Web
OCTOBER 3, 2012
No Bootstrapping Plan : Many startups that come out of an accelerator program (such as YCombinator, Dreamit, or TechStars) simply do not get funding. It can be very tempting to take in a little bit of seed capital, and start to operate as if you’re a big company. Note: I’m not talking about equity.
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Austin Startup
APRIL 28, 2019
Mitch Marchand, founder of Vybe Software, working at Sputnik ATX accelerator in Austin, TX First off, and full disclosure, I operate an accelerator program (Sputnik ATX) and have strong opinions on this subject as a participant in the “helping startups” market. It is OK to recognize that a program isn’t going to accelerate you as advertised.
Steve Blank
APRIL 12, 2013
The previous post described how the Torch program built China’s innovation clusters. This post is about the rise of Chinese venture capital and how it helped build the countries entrepreneurial ecosystem. The Rise of Chinese Venture Capital. This helped the startups qualify for funding from banks and venture capital firms.
Steve Blank
JULY 20, 2015
My guests on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Errol Arkilic , former program director for the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (NSF I-Corps), now founder of M34 Capital. Venk Shukla , president TiE Silicon Valley and general partner, Monta Vista Capital.
maplebutter.com
JANUARY 8, 2013
What is the best advice you can give for finding a business partner? Don’t quickly choose any business partner. The key is to ask the right people what they think – not your friends, parents or partner. I’m learning how to program. Especially if you need to quickly choose someone. That like quickly choosing a wife.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 23, 2010
Channel partners come in multiple flavors. If you haven’t already sold enough of your product directly to have enough volume to satisfy your channel partner he/she simply won’t end up pushing it – no matter how excited their MBA adorned biz dev guy was when he inked your deal. Channel partners are no different.
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