Business Model Government Seed Capital 
Steve Blank
JUNE 11, 2013
When you take money from investors their business model becomes yours. Sigh… What I should have been hearing is the search for the business model, specifically the progress on product/market fit, but I hear the fund raising story first at least 90% of the time. When I asked, “What are you working on?” Why small amounts?
Steve Blank
JUNE 11, 2013
When you take money from investors their business model becomes yours. Sigh… What I should have been hearing is the search for the business model, specifically the progress on product/market fit, but I hear the fund raising story first at least 90% of the time. When I asked, “What are you working on?” Why small amounts?
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Steve Blank
JULY 20, 2015
In my interview with Errol, we discussed the origins of the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (I-Corps), how and why it was created, and how it changed the way the government commercializes scientific research. government needs your help,’ and I remember saying, ‘The U.S. government accelerator that takes no equity.
Seeing Both Sides
AUGUST 28, 2017
Instead I will make a few observations about how an investor might think about the impact of ICOs / token launches on the venture capital industry, in particular, and some of the downstream ramifications that need to wrestled with. Need for growth capital. Fuzzy Governance. But many are.
Seeing Both Sides
AUGUST 28, 2017
Instead I will make a few observations about how an investor might think about the impact of ICOs / token launches on the venture capital industry, in particular, and some of the downstream ramifications that need to wrestled with. Need for growth capital. Fuzzy Governance. But many are.
maplebutter.com
JANUARY 8, 2013
Other sources of capital. Government grants – Credit cards / debt. I’m not afraid to pick up the phone, cold call someone, use LinkedIn to find someone who’s recently left a company that might be considered competitive and ask them for advise around the business model and marketplace. I may iterate 3 times in one day.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 24, 2010
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. The emergence of incubators and super angels have dramatically expanded the sources of seed capital. The Democratization of Entrepreneurship.
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