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

Steve Blank

70% of Chinese Internet users are under 30. And they were increasing at an aggregate 33 million IOS and Android activations per month. Internet penetration in Beijing is greater than 70% while it’s less than 25% in Yunnan, Jiangxi, Guizhou and other provinces. The Chinese government must be laughing hysterically over U.S.

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Open Angel Forum San Fran – Team Calacanis Raises the Bar

Both Sides of the Table

It also attracted some big names from the Bay Area. They called themselves a “social OS.&# Essentially I see it as two things: 1) an aggregator of social content from multiple places including Twitter, Facebook and soon even Gmail. The government has already given them millions in grants so it’s a good start.

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Never Mind the Valley: Here's Paris

ReadWriteStart

Not only does the country have a higher percentage of homes with high-speed Internet than the U.S. plus it's faster and costs half as much ), it ranks first in the world for number of blogs per Internet user, and has a formidable market of Internet consumers who spent €5.5 billion online in the first quarter of this year.

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

Steve Blank

70% of Chinese Internet users are under 30. And they were increasing at an aggregate 33 million IOS and Android activations per month. Internet penetration in Beijing is greater than 70% while it’s less than 25% in Yunnan, Jiangxi, Guizhou and other provinces. The Chinese government must be laughing hysterically over U.S.

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Out of the Crisis #26: Brian Armstrong of Coinbase on cryptocurrency, being mission-oriented, and institution building

Startup Lessons Learned

What is the role of public and private organizations in governing our shared civic fabric? Brian Armstrong : My name is Brian Armstrong. Why don't we just put this plan on the internet? It kind of aggregates technology content, I suppose. This is Out Of the Crisis. What are institutions for? Can we build better ones?

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Out of the Crisis #3, Jen Pahlka and Raylene Yung on creating the U.S. Digital Response

Startup Lessons Learned

Deputy Chief Technology Officers Cori Zarek and Ryan Panchadsaram to help all levels of government with COVID-19 response and delivery of services. Highlights from the show Jen describes her background in government-tech partnerships. (2:52) 12:44) A look at the three waves of requests coming from government. (14:06)

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Startups are the new MTV – and 15 other thoughts for 2015

Start Up Blog

I also think it is a reflection of an entire generation waking up to the fact that they can create something themselves, and it is no longer about following a path set by our parents, the government or the declining industrial powers that be. While I’m walking down the street I don’t wear a t shirt with my actual name on it.