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Why Governments Don’t Get Startups

Steve Blank

——— I’m getting ready to go overseas to teach , and I’ve spent the last week reviewing several countries’ ambitious attempts to kick-start entrepreneurship. In Silicon Valley the equivalent is the journeyman coder or web designer who loves the technology, and takes coding and U/I jobs because it’s a passion.

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Small business Congress-watch: Three Pending Bills and Why They Matter

crowdSPRING Blog

Maybe a quick call to your Representative with a simple message is due: Hey! 761: Energy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act of 2013 (Introduced 4/18/2013) Every day businesses, governments, and cultural institutions do damage to our economy through the wasteful practices. What’s the holdup? How so, you ask?