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How to Fund a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

Till now, nearly all seed firms have been so-called "incubators,"so Y Combinator gets calledone too, though the only thing we have in common is that we investin the earliest phase. According to the National Association of Business Incubators, thereare about 800 incubators in the US. What is an incubator?

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2017 – Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

The Hacking for Defense class was designed as “fundamental research” to be shared broadly and the results are not subject to restriction for proprietary or national security reasons. This meant that the minimal viable products the students built were focused on maximizing their learning of what to build, not just building prototypes.

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Boom and Bust and What Comes Next

Scalable Startup

He would know; he’s been backing tech start-ups since 1984, incubating at least one hen house full of millionaires.and probably a few empty ones. Take the Bank of America, once the largest bank in the world, whose signature office tower on California Street was briefly the tallest west of the Mississippi.