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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

Government and the enterprise are now followers rather than leaders. For products that are simply “bits” delivered over the web, a first product can be shipped in weeks rather than years. They can get to more computing power via their laptop through Amazon Web Services than existed in the entire world when I started in Silicon Valley.

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When It’s Darkest Men See the Stars

Steve Blank

the failure rate of new ventures (startups had no formal rules and were a hit or miss proposition), the slow adoption rate of new technologies by the government and large companies. For products that are simply “bits” delivered over the web, a first product can be shipped in weeks rather than years.

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

David Teten

These might include, e.g., mitigating climate change, strengthening democracy, enforcing ethics in government, promoting national security, and protecting against information warfare. . For 2 years, I’ve been struggling to think what I can do to help make America functional again, in light of how broken our governance is.

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

David Teten

Our initial test market: We want to make America functional again by helping our users, such as major advocacy organizations and corporations, promote majoritarian-supported policies, e.g., mitigating climate change, strengthening democracy, enforcing ethics in government, promoting national security, and protecting against information warfare. .

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Entrepreneurs, not the government, will save Europe’s economy

The Next Web

Access to capital continues to be a challenge in Europe. Getting seed capital (1M EUR or less) has become easier, but raising significant money (25M EUR and more) to turn your company in a global business continues to be difficult. Entrepreneurs, not the government, will change the world. Change our culture.

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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 types of startups are better suited to raising money from friends, family, commercial and government small business loans, etc.

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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 types of startups are better suited to raising money from friends, family, commercial and government small business loans, etc.