Rather than buying promising start-ups, they tend to build their own version of a popular new service.
The danger is that private investors, in particular, will turn their backs on promising start-ups such as eBay.
In many cases, investors have had to stand idly by and watch as their most promising start-ups have been seized by the state.
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When the bi-coastal Obama administration thinks of small business, it undoubtedly dreams of promising start-ups churning out solar panels or turbine blades for windmills.
Private companies opted to stay private longer, creating a backlog of potential sellers not to mention institutional investors salivating at the chance to acquire chunks of promising start-ups.
It went public in 2011, twelve years after a pair of Stanford University roommates founded it, but Jeff Tangney and Tom Lee were long gone by then, forming new promising start-ups.
To solve this dilemma, corporations were asked to reach for innovative products outside their boundaries, by acquiring start-ups with promising products.
With funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) as well as the Kauffman Foundation of Kansas City and the Deshpande Foundation of India, Mr Blank has designed I-Corps as a way of converting the most promising science and engineering projects in American universities into start-ups.
More important, display technology is a high innovation area with some promising opportunities for relocalization to the USA. US manufacturers and start-ups need to be thinking about that.
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