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Entries by Steve Blank from 02/2011

Venture Capitalists Are Not Your Friends

| Posted 02.03.2011 | Business
Read More: Investing, Small Business, Venture Capitalists, Startups, Startup Investing, Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship, Video Games, Entrepreneur, Venture Capital Fund, Small Business America, Business News

One of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make is not understanding the relationship they have with their investors. At times they confuse VC's with their friends.

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Startup America: Dead On Arrival

| Posted 02.08.2011 | Business
Read More: Venture Capital, Technology, Small Business America, White House, Startup America, Social Entrepreneurship, Techstars, Startups, Silicon Valley, Innovation, Entrepreneurs, Obama, Entrepreneurship, Business News

Startup America is a mashup of very smart programs by very smart people but not a strategy.

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Silicon Valley: A Behind-The-Scenes Tour

| Posted 02.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Venture Capital, Technology, Google, Santa Clara, Small Business, Twitter, California, Entrepreneurs, Stanford, Facebook, Intel, Sand Hill Road, Ycombinator, Jessica Livingston, Apple, Palo Alto, Paul Graham, Mountain View-California, Startups, Clean Technology, Entrepreneurship, San Francisco, Small Business America, Silicon Valley, Business News

What's been occurring for the last 50 years within Silicon Valley's tight cluster of suburban towns is nothing short of an "entrepreneurial explosion" on par with classic Athens, renaissance Florence or 1920's Paris.

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