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boldstart 2018 recap and what’s hot in enterprise 2019

BeyondVC

Along these lines, we are starting to hear serverless more and more from the Fortune 500 and see this trend reflected in the sales pipeline at iopipe which has gone from mostly startups to larger companies. Look at 2001 and 2008’s Lehman collapse and Sequoia RIP Good Times deck for lessons learned.

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Zhongguancun in Beijing – China’s Silicon Valley (Part 4 of 5)

Steve Blank

China has essentially closed its internal search, media and social network software market to foreign companies who wouldn’t play with the government rules on the Great Firewall. Several VC’s mentioned that there’s a funding gap for seed stage investments. Car sales in China went from 1 million in 2001 to 14 million in 2011.

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Zhongguancun in Beijing – China’s Silicon Valley (Part 4 of 5)

Steve Blank

China has essentially closed its internal search, media and social network software market to foreign companies who wouldn’t play with the government rules on the Great Firewall. Several VC’s mentioned that there’s a funding gap for seed stage investments. Car sales in China went from 1 million in 2001 to 14 million in 2011.