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Zhongguancun in Beijing – China’s Silicon Valley (Part 4 of 5)

Steve Blank

In the few days I was in China I met with several VC’s, angel investors, business press and spoke to hundreds of entrepreneurs. Startups here are primarily in what they call the TMT (Technology, Media and Telecommunications) segment. Facebook was too frightening to Chinese censors, so Renren is the leading social media player.

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Zhongguancun in Beijing – China’s Silicon Valley (Part 4 of 5)

Steve Blank

In the few days I was in China I met with several VC’s, angel investors, business press and spoke to hundreds of entrepreneurs. Startups here are primarily in what they call the TMT (Technology, Media and Telecommunications) segment. Facebook was too frightening to Chinese censors, so Renren is the leading social media player.

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Are You the Fool at The Table?

Steve Blank

Smart Money are prescient angel investors and Venture Capitalists who started investing in social networks, consumer and mobile applications and the cloud 3, 4 or 5 years ago. But they don’t support his justification of the bubble valuations we are seeing for companies filing for IPO’s (Pandora Media just priced its IPO at $2.6

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Part 2 of Episode 6 on Sirius XM Channel 111: Steve Weinstein and Venk Shukla

Steve Blank

MovieLabs is researching how to redefine the movie experience, advance content distribution, and understand media consumers. Ownership of movies for collectors, when it was physical media, meant something. . — Steve Weinstein is the CEO and founder of MovieLabs , the research consortium for the six Hollywood major studios.

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