YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 28, 2014
The state’s economy, government incentives and training, business regulations and workforce are other crucial factors. Idaho may be known for potatoes, but it should also be known as a stellar place to start a business. Government is a large employer—given the state’s proximity to Washington, D.C.—and
Steve Blank
JUNE 24, 2013
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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The Startup Magazine
MARCH 10, 2021
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. The financial market also relies heavily on statistics as this is how they figure out who and where is the best choice for investment. Product testing.
Steve Blank
JUNE 24, 2013
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.
David Teten
AUGUST 19, 2019
The mode purpose for funding is (in order of frequency) Sales, Marketing, Market Expansion, Product Development, and Hiring Employees. Like other RBI firms, Decathlon does not require warrants, governance involvement, or the types of financial covenants that are often associated with other venture debt type solutions.
Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook
AUGUST 23, 2013
Our government allocated part of the 2.9 Philo Farnsworth, the Idaho farm boy, helped invent TV. It’s a private company solving a problem –nothing like a win-win free market solution to beat wasteful government spending eh? It’s not. Millions of rural Americans have no, or quite poor, web access.
VC Adventure
FEBRUARY 1, 2010
It will also lead to a massive expansion of government, whose only function will be to try to interpret and unravel an impossibly complex set of new tax rules. I grew up on a family potato farm in SE Idaho and I have a PhD in Engineering from Stanford (also known as The Farm). I have been in the technology industry for 30+ years.
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