Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. In these series of 5 posts, I thought I’d share what I learned in China. I was only in China for a week so this a cursory view. China Venture Capital. China now has plenty of both.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 18, 2013

She also delved into the impact of the Internet on small businesses in Asia, and highlighted how a country’s infrastructure can aid or limit the impact of small business on its economy. The impact of the Internet has also opened up possibilities for small businesses seeking growth in both domestic and international markets.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. In these series of 5 posts, I thought I’d share what I learned in China. I was only in China for a week so this a cursory view. China Venture Capital. China now has plenty of both.

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Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 163

thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Relevance: In 2011 (mentioned on page 18 if you view the presentation), Facebook only had 11% of the world’s internet users on on its platform – the figure was at 50% in North America. What in the World?!? Why this acquisition? There’s another post on immigration reform in the US here but I won’t digress.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 11, 2018

and China threatens to escalate, 5G wireless technology has emerged as one of the major fronts in the long-term competition between the two superpowers. currently trails China and South Korea in 5G development, a situation which puts America at a disadvantage if it is not addressed. As a tariff war between the U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

This has been especially true for angels or seed investors as there is a new thesis that less capital is needed to start Internet companies so more money is being spent at this phase of the funding lifecycle. VCs have also gone back to writing checks because as an industry we can’t be seen as “sitting on the sidelines” for years at a time.

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Gust

AUGUST 22, 2012

Internet connectivity is still sparse but mobile phones are everywhere, with major players and familiar brands aggressively pursuing new markets. Perhaps most importantly, IT and Internet business are simply a breed of their own. The risk-reward tradeoff in finance should hold true in developing and unstable regions as well.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 9, 2012

We know that the Millennials are defined by their love for and use of technology, but how much do they really embrace the Internet and their devices? Millennials in China, because of Internet restrictions and preferences, use a wider variety of local social networking sites with Webio and Youku the most popular.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 15, 2011

for both 2011 and 2012 from its previous growth forecast of 4.3%, noting that the Israeli economy “remains one of the robust and well managed among both the developed and the emerging market economies.&#. The drivers and transformers it designs for use in LED and halogen lighting are manufactured in China.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Below are the headlines for December 2011 (mid month update!). Microsoft bought visual identification video search engine Videosurf , which developed a technology that locates video clips on the Internet. As of April 2011, the site claimed more than 20 million visitors a month, up sharply from the 1.5

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

This video should be the gold standard in explaining contract terms.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2011

And, of course, if you start counting non-US domestic hotbeds, you’ve got thriving mobile scenes in Western and Eastern EU countries, China, Japan, India, Korea, Brazil, etc. As Kleiner partner Mary Meeker so nicely summed up recently , mobile is the “it&# Internet trend of the moment.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

中文-简体 (China). In early 2011 an acquisition by a Fortune 500 company fell apart. Defending Japanese Waters From Chinas Navy. INTERNET BUSINESSES. General Internet. - Ran gold Resources Ltd. View All Search Results » Subscribe. América Latina. Deutschland. » More.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2011

This was followed by another $500 million investment (along with Goldman Sachs) in 2011, at a $50 billion valuation. Some precursors to the bubble happened when Chinese Internet companies listed on United States stock exchanges. In December 2010, Youku—the YouTube of China —went public, with a valuation of $4.4 billion (on $76.5

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The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

We boast the world’s second highest fixed broadband Internet subscription rate only an inch behind Sweden. Ninety-four percent of households are equipped with a computer and have Internet access (the others are still playing 8-bit Nintendo). hrs (2011). Look out China, we’ll advise you into submission!

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Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

And while the internet created both tremendous reward and tremendous investment carnage leading up to and after the 2000 tech bubble, it’s created long run disruption of broad sectors of media, advertising, business software & computing, and retail commerce and VCs that missed this shift have faced real struggles.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 13, 2012

Here’s a recap on the keynote, as well as some of the presentation and panel sessions: Trends, Fads & Transformation: The Impact of the Internet. State of the Internet & Lessons Learnt in the Digital Measurement Trenches of Online Advertising in Southeast Asia.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MAY 10, 2012

Internet of Things. After launching iOS and Android apps in January 2011, Technology Review ran into development, sales and other difficulties. ReadWriteWeb. Key Trends. App Stores. Real-Time Web. Structured Data. Top Topics. ReadWriteWeb. ReadWriteStart. ReadWriteBiz. ReadWriteEnterprise. ReadWriteCloud. ReadWriteHack. POPULAR TAGS.

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David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

For example, Yale could launch a center focused on applying political science thinking to the governance of major internet businesses (e.g., Strong Asian ties, especially to China — Yale has among the strongest ties to China of any major Western university, matriculating its first Chinese student in 1854.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

She is an award winning journalist and author of two critically acclaimed books, "Once Youre Lucky, Twice Youre Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0" (Gotham Books, May 2008) and "Brilliant, Crazy, Cocky: How the Top 1% of Entrepreneurs Profit from Global Chaos" (Wiley, February 2011). iPhone 5 may come to China soon.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Move your company to China, India, or Israel. These include chips, computers, software, telecom, and the Internet. I believe that startups and venture capital firms that struggle but survive in 2010 will emerge stronger in 2011, making that a year of recovery and renewal in the investment world. Get in a recession-proof sector.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Sourcing in China. Smart China Sourcing. Likelihood of Confusion -trademark, copyright and Internet Law. Crunchies 2011. hire low-cost international engineering talent. Freelancer â?? outsourcing for small business. VWorker -Â find/hire freelancers. Manufacturing Resources. Alibaba.com. GlobalSources.com. Sourcing Blog.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

The Wall Street Journal is phasing out support of the Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) browser. Internet Explorer. In the 1990s Internet boom, easy money helped founders maintain more control early in a companys evolution, but founder CEOs without voting control often got replaced by a professional manager ahead of an IPO. My Journal.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. china tour beijing tour beijing travel china tour tibet tour tibet travel computer monitoring software employee monitoring. internet. (6). ► 2011. (2). How the use of internet is transform.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Financial Snapshot : 2011 Revenue: $3.71 2011 YoY Revenue Growth: 88%. 2011 Gross Profit Margin: 77%. 2011 Net Income: $1.00 2011 US Revenue = 56% of total, ROW = 44% of total. In fact Facebook’s ad revenue dropped in absolute terms slightly (about -3%) from Q4 2010 to Q1 2011.

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Cracking the Code

APRIL 15, 2014

Mobile represents 15% of internet traffic, growing at 150% per year but users spend 87% of their time on mobile on applications (vs. mobile internet), so this underestimates the actual penetration. revenues in 2014) expected to go public in the US in 2014.

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 16, 2006

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. china tour beijing tour beijing travel china tour tibet tour tibet travel computer monitoring software employee monitoring. internet. (6). ► 2011. (2). How the use of internet is transform.

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venturebeat.com

MARCH 8, 2011

Don’t use company property or Internet, ever - Another clause in most employment agreements is that anything you do physically at work, or on software and equipment owned by the company (e.g. Assume everything you do on the Internet is recorded, cataloged, tagged, and monitored continuously.

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www.huffingtonpost.com

MAY 10, 2011

I was lucky to sign on as advisor and investor the founder of a very high-profile consumer Internet site who happens to also be a former engineer, who I will call Richard. The first thing I did was to find an advisor who I could trust. All rights reserved. Part of Money & Finance HuffPost Lightbox. startupcto

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. china tour beijing tour beijing travel china tour tibet tour tibet travel computer monitoring software employee monitoring. internet. (6). ► 2011. (2). How the use of internet is transform.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Roberts is in the news this week because of his high-profile critique of Angellist , the hot new investment network Robert Scoble has called the new Silicon Valley hype machine. If you dont qualify as either, all the right intros in the world wont get you VC funding." startupcto

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Up and Running

APRIL 22, 2013

The internet in your freakin’ pocket. Everyone from Cupertino to Cooperstown to Cambodia to China. RIP STEVE JOBS 1955-2011. He even stole home plate with the “swipe” of his thumb - the entire telecommunications industry disrupted out of nowhere when he released the iPhone in ’07. That could have been it.

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Cambodia China California Cofounder 76

David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

SecondMarket was recently honored by the World Economic Forum as a 2011 Technology Pioneer. Monday, April 4th, 2011. Barry has been featured on CNBC, CNN Money, Bloomberg News and Fox Business News. Among his pathbreaking books are Yen! a 2005 book about new developments in Web 2.0 a 2005 book about new developments in Web 2.0

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Private Equity Merger IPO Equity 68

Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 10, 2011

But if that observation led them to refrain from investing in the Internet sector, they would have missed one of the most stunning legal creations of wealth in history. The Internet bull market continued to run for four more years after the Open Market IPO, finally ending in the spring of 2000.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. Clearly it'd be more accurate to say "sometime in Q1 2011." Ralph Waldo Emerson. This Thanksgiving it might seem that there’s a lot less to be thankful for. One out of ten of Americans are out of work. But I don’t think so.

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Technical Review Technology Product CTO Hire 175

thenextweb.com

AUGUST 6, 2012

The front page of the Internet. To have been responsible for funding and nuturing something that legitimately calls itself the “front page of the Internet”, the Y Combinator program has to have done something right. Google+ is What Internet Forums Should Have Been. Koreas High-Speed Internet Access Passes 100% Penetration.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

Consulting Google, the oracle of the Internet, indicates that there is little in the way of consensus regarding the possibility of a tech boom/bust scenario playing out in the near term. The first page results of a search for “tech 2.0 bubble” include articles and tweets from the Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, Forbes, and CNET.

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