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

Steve Blank

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. business models. New Rules for China. Unlike U.S.

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

Steve Blank

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. business models. New Rules for China. Unlike U.S.

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Born Global or Die Local – Building a Regional Startup Playbook

Steve Blank

China, Russia, Brazil, India, Indonesia all meet those criteria. The biggest mistake for most of these startups was not understanding that optimizing their business model for the 24 million people in the Australian market would not prepare them for the size and scale they needed to get to big. Outside the U.S. Trip 2 to the U.S.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Making the World a Safer Place

Steve Blank

DF-21 and Islands in the South China Sea. They are experts in leveraging Web 2.0 Filed under: Customer Development , Science and Industrial Policy , Teaching. Yet in the last decade the U.S. Department of Defense and Intelligence Community are now facing their own disruption from ISIS. North Korea. Sign up here.

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Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

SoCal CTO

The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. Ralph Waldo Emerson. One out of ten of Americans are out of work.

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The Fatal Flaw of the Three Horizons Model and How To Fix It

Steve Blank

The model described innovation occurring in three time horizons : Horizon 1 ideas provide continuous innovation to a company’s existing business model and core capabilities. Horizon 2 ideas extend a company’s existing business/model and core capabilities to new customers, markets or targets. Lessons Learned.

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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. This lets them deliver a first version of the product to customers in a fraction on the time. For products that are simply “bits” delivered over the web, a first product can be shipped in weeks rather than years. or Euro-centric phenomenon.