Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

The book has been shepherded and edited by a great Japanese VC at Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Venture Capital, Takashi Tsutsumi, with help from Masato Iino. I asked Tsutsumi-san to write a guest post for my blog to describe his experience with Customer Development in Japan. Customer Development Education.

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Japan Customer Development Developer Customer 292

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

Money to be used for hiring and additional product development. Current round: $20.0mm Series-B led by Andreesen Horowitz, with USV and O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures. Based in Palo Alto and founded in 2004 by PayPal alumni. Offers two products: Palantir Government and Palantir Finance. Competitors: Gowalla.

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San Francisco Venture Capital Analytics Government 248

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

MANPOWER STUDY SHOWS DEMAND FOR HI-TECH WORKERS IN ISRAEL UP 41%. According to research conducted by the personnel firm Manpower, the demand for high-tech workers rose 41.3% The demand for all workers in Israel rose 16.6%. Israel’s average unemployment rate of 6.7% in 2010 is also well below the OECD average of 8.3%.

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