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Ecommerce Trendwatching: How To Find, Follow, and Set Trends

ReadWriteStart

Customers will be even more comfortable with the introduction of voice commerce, another unicorn of the online shopping experience. Sustainability is the Queen In 2023, customers have become even more environmentally conscious, as recent statistics prove. Only in 2021, 72.9% Amazon has been at it for years.

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When It’s Darkest Men See the Stars

Steve Blank

The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. In the past, the time to build a first product release was measured in months or even years as startups executed the founder’s vision of what customers wanted. The founders were simply wrong about their assumptions about customer needs.

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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

In the 20 th century startups I was part of, the time to build a first product release was measured in years as we turned out the founder’s vision of what customers wanted. Yet time after time, after the product shipped, startups would find that customers didn’t use or want most of the features. China has simply become the factory.

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ESADE Business School Commencement Speech

Steve Blank

Just look at the disruptive challenges that businesses face today– globalization, China as a manufacturer, China as a consumer, the Internet, and a steady stream of new startups. The first will be commodity businesses that are valued for their ability to execute their current business model.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

Second, this class – which is built on the idea of interviewing customers/beneficiaries and stakeholders in person – now had to do all their customer discovery via a computer screen. How on earth would customer interviews work via video? Team SeaWatch – Maritime Security in the South China Sea.

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No Business Plan Survives First Contact With A Customer – The 5.2 billion dollar mistake.

Steve Blank

With an out-of-this-world business plan. When it was spun out as a a separate company, Iridium’s 1990 business plan had assumptions about potential customers, their problems and the product needed to solve that problem. They made other assumptions about the type of sales channel, partnerships and revenue model they would need.

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Micro-Multinationals, And How They Will Define Our Era

YoungUpstarts

To start with, micro-multinationals are small- to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) by definition – a critically important part of the global economy that makes up about 90 percent of all businesses [4] , more than 99% of all employer firms [5] and more than 50 percent of employment worldwide [6]. In Asia, China provides a case in point.