article thumbnail

Why Governments Don’t Get Startups

Steve Blank

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. In the last five years, web and mobile app startups that are founded to be sold to larger companies have become popular. but then the government got out of the way.

article thumbnail

The Government Starts an Incubator: The National Science Foundation Innovation Corps

Steve Blank

government has been running one of the most audacious experiments in entrepreneurship since World War II. government agency that supports research in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. These weren’t 22-year olds who wanted to build a social shopping web site. Over the last two months the U.S. billion U.S.

Incubator 310
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

The Rise Of Cloud Computing

YoungUpstarts

These consoles would usually be web-based by nature and accessible by things like your web browser. Chances are most of us have already encountered cloud browsing through our usage of web-based email services like Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo! Governments adopting the use of the Cloud.

Cloud 223
article thumbnail

China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

They’re used to using the web and increasingly the mobile web for everything, commerce, communication, games, etc. While there are 564 million web users with 420 million having mobile web access, 74% of Chinese Internet users make less than $500/month and are students, blue-collar workers or jobless. Unlike U.S.

China 328
article thumbnail

Playing With Fire – ChatGPT

Steve Blank

Over the last 50 years I’ve been lucky enough to have been present at the creation of the first microprocessors, the first personal computers, and the first enterprise web applications. government seriously considered international control over the development of nuclear weapons. First, you should definitely care. In the U.S.

ChatGPT 424
article thumbnail

10 Keys To Surviving Startup Cash Flow Requirements

Startup Professionals Musings

My first advice for new entrepreneurs is to pick a domain, such as online web sites and smart phone apps, that doesn’t have the sky-high up-front development costs. This source is a major focus these days, due to government initiatives to incent research and development on alternative energy and other technologies.

article thumbnail

Ways To Make Your Website More Secure

YoungUpstarts

With each passing day, we hear of new leaks of information over the internet, including IDs and passwords, top-secret classified government data, credit card information, personal nude photos, and much more. Well, cybercriminals can use your website to send phishing emails or to set up a temporary web server to store illegal files.

Security 232