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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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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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2011

Justice Department and SEC reported imposing over $1.5 crackdown started way back in the late 1970’s with the advent of the “ Lockheed Bribery Scandals ,” in which the company was accused of paying bribes to foreign governments in order to secure aircraft and equipment orders. In a recent update by Thomson-Reuters , the U.S.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2020

The institutions that governed our lives before are under extreme stress, and the cracks and gaps in the system are becoming rifts and fault lines. Once we saw this evidence, we thought, "Wait a sec, we can actually do something about it." Some of them derived from oil, some of them derived from other natural products.

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Board Effect

AUGUST 14, 2023

Cyberattacks Are Here and Rising Globally speaking, organizations in the financial services sector suffered the second-largest number of known breaches in 2022, just behind government organizations and ahead of the retail sector, according to threat intelligence firm Flashpoint. Ransomware attacks are rising and becoming increasingly costly.

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Board Effect

AUGUST 14, 2023

Cyberattacks Are Here and Rising Globally speaking, organizations in the financial services sector suffered the second-largest number of known breaches in 2022, just behind government organizations and ahead of the retail sector, according to threat intelligence firm Flashpoint. Ransomware attacks are rising and becoming increasingly costly.

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Growthink Blog

MARCH 19, 2012

The result is that far too many entrepreneurs can't start or grow their ventures—and can't provide jobs and new products and services to spur our economy. Broadening the Base Currently, equity-based crowd funding falls under strict Securities and Exchange Commission rules governing angel investing.

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The Equity Kicker

APRIL 13, 2012

Our enduring love for Google comes from a strong desire to create technology products that enrich millions of people’s lives in deep and meaningful ways. Given Google’s success, it’s unsurprising that this type of dual-class governance structure is now somewhat standard among newer technology companies. Conclusion.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 21, 2020

In commercial tech you call that an integrated product team, It’s acquisition with software engineering with UI/UX. And we took the classic commercial tech approach of building minimal viable products: Get something that will work good enough. Minimal Viable Products. Lean, MVPs and the DOD. That world is gone.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Im writing this post from an airplane headed to Washington DC, where Ill be presenting at the Government 2.0 Im especially curious to gauge the reaction of the civilian and military representatives of our government. Ive been in a few government-themed meetings recently, so I know some of the standard answers.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 26, 2017

Websites selling different things are different and even if they sell the same products, their target audience might be different. Do people care about this product? Example: Employee engagement -> small business -> productivity -> Management -> Culture -> Human resources. Websites are contextual.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Often I find that experienced investors scan ahead to the management page of a business plan, even before they read the product description. These days, with Sarbanes-Oxley and all the new SEC regulations, an MBA does not begin to cover the accounting, process, and tax knowledge needed to steer a company’s finances.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 9, 2013

Often I find that experienced investors scan ahead to the management page of a business plan, even before they read the product description. These days, with Sarbanes-Oxley and all the new SEC regulations, an MBA does not begin to cover the accounting, process, and tax knowledge needed to steer a company’s finances.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 7, 2011

Often I find that experienced investors scan ahead to the management page of a business plan, even before they read the product description. These days, with Sarbanes-Oxley and all the new SEC regulations, an MBA does not begin to cover the accounting, process, and tax knowledge needed to steer a company’s finances.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

The SEC defines an "accredited investor" as someone with over amillion dollars in liquid assets or an income of over $200,000 ayear. Then you can gradually transformyourself from a consulting company into a product company, and haveyour clients pay your development expenses. Those remedial actions can delay, stall or even kill the IPO.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

Often I find that experienced investors scan ahead to the management page of a business plan, even before they read the product description. These days, with Sarbanes-Oxley and all the new SEC regulations, an MBA does not begin to cover the accounting, process, and tax knowledge needed to steer a company’s finances.

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Mike Michalowicz

OCTOBER 19, 2015

which provides consulting and training services in Accounting and productivity based software. and now schoolofbookkeeping.com is one of the leaders in the small business accounting world in online training resources offering courses on a wide range of software products. Nerd Enterprises, Inc. Nerd Enterprises, Inc.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

And unfortunately, you may assume that the product of your Unicorn valuation and your percentage ownership is what you are worth. SEC Visits Silicon Valley. A few weeks ago, on March 31, 2016, the Chair of the SEC made a trip to Silicon Valley and gave a speech at an event at Stanford Law School. Caveat emptor.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2009

At Stanford, Dean of Engineering Fred Terman wanted companies outside of the university to take Stanford’s prototype microwave tubes and electronic intelligence systems and build production volumes for the military. military and intelligence agencies and defense contractors. ARD was a publicly traded venture capital firm (raising $3.5

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

What is the role of public and private organizations in governing our shared civic fabric? But beyond its products, Coinbase is an interesting company in itself. But if I see a really great piece of work product, I generally will just try to, say hey, let's post this on the blog externally. This is Out Of the Crisis.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 10, 2021

But second, it just makes the product better. They want the government off their backs except when it comes to making sure no one builds affordable housing down the street from them. Do I believe that private companies should be able to eliminate hate speech and incitements towards violence on their platforms? Absolutely.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

Not to be outdone, on May 20, Robinhood announced , “Today, we’re starting to roll out IPO Access, a new product that will give you the opportunity to buy shares of companies at their IPO price, before trading on public exchanges.” That said, the NYSE and NASDAQ have SEC approval for “Direct Listing with a Primary Raise.”

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

If you read the headlines or talk with zealous friends you may well think cryptocurrencies are either our savior from bureaucratic, ossified governments or are purely speculative Ponzi schemes. In more than a decade of writing about the Internet and tech-enabled businesses I’ve learned that mobs don’t do nuance well. Enter blockchain.

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