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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. The table below from web2asia.com shows the number of users of online social networks as of 2009. VC’s pulled back and only invested $3.7

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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. The table below from web2asia.com shows the number of users of online social networks as of 2009. VC’s pulled back and only invested $3.7

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New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

Steve Blank

2001 – 2010: Back to Basics: The Lean Startup. Tech IPOs were a receding memory, and mergers and acquisitions became the only path to liquidity for startups. This next wave of web startups; Social Networks and Mobile Applications, now reached 100’s of millions of customers. Lessons Learned.

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