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How to Make Sense of the PPP Loan Program for VC-Backed Startups

Both Sides of the Table

There is so much confusion and misinformation out there about the government sponsored “payroll protection plan” loans to companies that the heads of every small business CEO in the country must be spinning. There are certainly some people who are publicly saying that VC-backed businesses shouldn’t take government money.

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Hospital Governing Board Structure

Board Effect

After the implementation of ACA, more hospitals and health systems entered into affiliations, acquisitions, membership substitutions, join ventures, and clinical affiliations. These shifts have necessitated major changes to the hospital governing board structure as we’ve known it in the past.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

In 2016, brainstorming with Pete Newell of BMNT and Joe Felter at Stanford, we observed that students in our research universities had little connection to the problems their government was trying to solve or the larger issues civil society was grappling with. Many will continue to work with their problem sponsor.

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Grant Applications Often Provide Early-Stage Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

Acquiring seed-stage funding is admittedly tough, but a source that I find often overlooked is government grant funding, accessible in the U.S. Government grants start as small a few thousand dollars, but can provide a million dollars or more in capital to new ventures. The approval process is long and bureaucratic.

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If you build it, they won't come, unless.

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

We're going to use an affiliate program so our customers sell it for us.". Does Twitter get press when it helps Iranians fight an illegitimate government or when it creates a new internal IT process to increase up-time? "A friend of mine knows how to get popular on Twitter.". We're going to get reviews on blogs.".

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Startup America Partnership

Feld Thoughts

As part of this, TechStars announced the TechStars Network , an affiliation of TechStars-like programs across the country along with our commitment to the Startup America Partnership to help 5000 experienced mentors work with 6000 entrepreneurs to create 25,000 new jobs by 2015.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal the Companies They are Starting in 2023

Hearpreneur

14- Government contracting business Photo Credit: Justin Siken Now is an excellent time to start a government contracting business. Government contracting is relatively insulated from broader economic trends and the risk of recession. Thanks to Perry Zheng, Cash flow marketplace ! #14- Thanks to Justin Siken, HigherGov ! #15-