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China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

business models. And they were increasing at an aggregate 33 million IOS and Android activations per month. Second, most websites that a non-Chinese would use are blocked including Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Google Docs, Scribd, Blogspot, Dropbox, New York Times, etc. business models.

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Why Entrepreneurs Start Companies Rather Than Join Them

Steve Blank

They are talking about everyone who chooses to be self-employed – from a corner food vendor without a high school diploma to a high-tech founder with a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford.). Increasing the number of new ventures will only generate aggregate wealth if those who start firms are truly more productive as entrepreneurs.

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China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

business models. And they were increasing at an aggregate 33 million IOS and Android activations per month. Second, most websites that a non-Chinese would use are blocked including Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Google Docs, Scribd, Blogspot, Dropbox, New York Times, etc. business models.

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New San Diego VC Firm Emerges as ‘The Moneyball of Venture Capital’ | Xconomy

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Sakti3 Founder Sastry to Step Down From U-M. New York ›. View More in New York › ›. VP of Strategic and Emerging Business Development, Microsoft. Co-Founder and CEO, Wetpaint. Founder, DEKA Research and Development Corporation. New York Events ›. View More in Boston ›. Dean Kamen.

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Everyone’s Business: Five good business articles from March 11-15

Up and Running

Every Friday, we’ll be aggregating a few great articles from the week. Likeable Media founder Carrie Kerpen wrote an article in Inc. A bit of a downer, but the New York Times posted an article on Thursday about how young generations have generated 40 percent less wealth than their parents did at the same age.

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It's a startup, not a spreadsheet

Startup Lessons Learned

It’s entirely possible for the startup to be a massive success without having large aggregate numbers, because the startup has succeeded in finding a passionate, but small, early adopter base that has tremendous per-customer behavior. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

What matters is proving the viability of the company’s business model, what investors call “traction.&# It should be even more important to the founders themselves, because it demonstrates that their business hypothesis is grounded in reality. They are busy too, but they are not creating value for the company.

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