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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

I’ve watched the Valley go from Microwave Valley – to Defense Valley – to Silicon Valley to Internet Valley. the wave of semiconductor startups in the 1960’s/70’s, the emergence of Venture Capital as a professional industry, the personal computer revolution in 1980’s, the rise of the Internet in the 1990’s and finally.

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Seeking CEO+team for VC-backed startup: Make America Functional Again

David Teten

Briefly, we think there’s a substantial market for a business which helps enterprises to execute initiatives which require coordination across diverse stakeholders, e.g., make a large sale to a critical client, or lobby for a change in regulation. This work is unpaid, as with any other startup at the pre-seed stage. A nonprofit?

America 60
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Seeking CEO+team for VC-backed startup: Make America Functional Again

David Teten

Briefly, we think there’s a substantial market for a business which helps enterprises to execute initiatives which require coordination across diverse stakeholders, e.g., make a large sale to a critical client, or lobby for a change in regulation. Once we’ve executed all the steps above, we go to VCs and raise seed capital of $1-2m.

America 60
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Fund Raising is a Means Not an End

Steve Blank

If you don’t have scale as a goal then you shouldn’t be raising money from angel or venture investors, you should be getting a commercial or government small business loan.). • Search. These are great, but they are not repeatable by a sales organization. The goal is to scale. (If Why small amounts? When to raise money.

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Fund Raising is a Means Not an End

Steve Blank

If you don’t have scale as a goal then you shouldn’t be raising money from angel or venture investors, you should be getting a commercial or government small business loan.). • Search. These are great, but they are not repeatable by a sales organization. The goal is to scale. (If Why small amounts? When to raise money.

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JOBS Act to Change Startup Funding Landscape

ReadWriteStart

IPOs by year, 1980-2011, with pre-IPO last 12-month sales less than (small firms) or greater than (large firms) $50 million (2009 purchasing power). The real truth is, since the "Internet bubble" burst in 2001, initial public offerings have not resumed the vitality levels of the late 1980s, let alone the boom years of the '90s.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

Do that – nothing else but one product / company / focus and get to $1M in sales with atleast $15% net profit. Instead of spending 4 years at university, I spend 4 years starting 2 internet companies that failed. What is the first step in creating an internet-based business (After planning) ? Other sources of capital.