Steve Blank

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Dual-Use Technology As the war was winding down, the leadership of the Navy Computing Machine Lab in OPS-20-G was thinking about how they could permanently link commercial, academic and military computing science and innovation to the Navy. Applicants were told that ERA was doing electronics work for government and industry.

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Up and Running

JULY 24, 2014

From government grants to alumni donations, something might work for you that wouldn’t be a good fit for others, or something that hasn’t worked in the past could be on the table for your organization at this point in its growth. .” For some organizations, government funding is ideal and straightforward.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

And there is so much money around being thrown at so many entrepreneurs that many firms don’t even care about board seats, governance rights or heaven forbid doing work with the company because that would eat into the VCs time needed to chase 5 more deals. A seed round these days is $3–5 million or more!

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

to spur innovation was a new government agency to fund new companies. The Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) Act in 1958 guaranteed that for every dollar a bank or financial institution invested in a new company, the U.S. government would invest three (up to $300,000.) In response, one of the many U.S.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 23, 2012

However, he fails to question Cai on how the Chinese government is preventing Chinese equivalents of blocked U.S. When you can behave yourself and self-administrate, the government will be happy to step by and rest,” Cai adds. The nation-building blueprint was ratified into the Chinese Communist Party’s Constitution in 2007.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

We also talked about why he took a very public stance on the role of corporate leadership in social issues, and how it relates to fulfilling Coinbase's mission. What is the role of public and private organizations in governing our shared civic fabric? This is Out Of the Crisis. What are institutions for? Can we build better ones?

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