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Creating the Next Silicon Valley – The Chilean Experiment

Steve Blank

The government ; the Innovation Division of the Ministry of Economy , the Chilean Economic Development Agency , (CORFO) which sponsored Start-Up Chile and Do Future in Patagonia as well as Fundacion Chile , the main R&D agency and the National Innovation Council. This isn’t some small-time effort. Corporate Connections. UAV’s?

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Why Acceptance of Failure is Critical to Startup Success

Both Sides of the Table

In France in some ways it was worse because if you failed as a startup founder you shouldered personal liabilities that don’t exist in the US under our bankruptcy laws. So I wondered out loud with the president if the government wanted to encourage more entrepreneurship — was there a way to help promote more of a culture accepting of failure?

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Why Startups Are Ready For A Reboot

YoungUpstarts

Most startups have been competent in managing their cash burn by determining how they spend and utilizing government subsidies to meet their goals. NBC News points out several companies that filed for bankruptcy during the later months of the crisis. Businesses have had to look for more creative means for funding their success.

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Nuts & Bolts of Intellectual Property for New Startups

Gust

Even in purely online businesses, to scale from zero to millions of users: in the 1990s, an Internet company might have had to build a whole data center from scratch (as we did at Excite@Home, only to ultimately shut it down in bankruptcy ). Trade secrets are everything else that would be considered confidential or proprietary.

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Why Some Startups Win

Steve Blank

When organizations are small (startups, small teams in companies and government agencies) early employees share a mission (why they come to work, what they need to do while they are at work, and how they will know they have succeeded). I had taken the job of VP of Marketing in a company emerging from bankruptcy. Why Do You Work Here?

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Why Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Is A Thing Of The Past And What You Should Do About It

YoungUpstarts

In fact, since 2000, more than 10 million Americans have filed personal bankruptcy due to their employers’ failed health insurance plan. Basically, employees purchase their own individual policies on the open market (a purchase frequently offset by government subsidies), and employers reimburse them. For many, it’s been a struggle.

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Five Ways For A Startup To Secure And Keep A Big Client

YoungUpstarts

For a startup, sustained revenue is of paramount importance: a paucity of sales in one month could lead to bankruptcy the next. The terms of the contract will always govern, even if they verbally indicated something different. By Scott Tarlow, founder, president and CEO of Success Systems. For any business, revenue matters.

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