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Strangling Innovation: Tesla versus “Rent Seekers”

Steve Blank

The greatest number of jobs is created when startups create a new market – one where the product or service never existed before or is radically more convenient. They use government regulation and lawsuits to keep out new entrants with more innovative business models. Not all government regulation is rent or rent seeking.

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American Enterprise is In Danger from Recent Court Ruling

VC Adventure

But because of the lack of knowledge about how the financing system for small businesses and startups works (or doesn’t) in America, many people may miss the significance of the decision by the three-judge 11th circuit panel. But this betrays a fundamental lack of understanding about how small businesses and financing work. (In

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Strangling Innovation: Tesla versus “Rent Seekers”

Steve Blank

The greatest number of jobs is created when startups create a new market – one where the product or service never existed before or is radically more convenient. They use government regulation and lawsuits to keep out new entrants with more innovative business models. Not all government regulation is rent or rent seeking.

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Statisticians make the world go round

The Startup Magazine

Statistics have been vital to the way our governments have provided their citizens with information on the pandemic. They make the rules that govern everything we do day to day. Product testing. When a company produces their new and exciting product, it is important that they give the customers the best possible option.

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Getting out of the building…by staying in the building!

Steve Blank

identify financing vehicles before you need them. However, one of the bottlenecks in actually doing Customer Discovery for medical devices/health care is testing how minimal viable products work in-context. It would be great if there were a way to first test these hypotheses and minimal viable products in a realistic setting locally.

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How to Start a Farm: Your Complete Guide to Success

Up and Running

Step 3: Get financed. Step 5: Marketing your farm and products. Although Cindy had never farmed before, she had been an active gardener, growing the herbs she needed for her skin care product business, in her own large garden. If you are already interested in a particular product, learn more about your local market.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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