Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2020

The story of how Curative pivoted and scaled is about moving with entrepreneurial speed to find a solution, then collaborating with investors and government for the public good. Fred Turner : A lot of hiring. So, there's been quite a rapid hiring spree, and we're about to hire another 100 people over the next two weeks.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

It is generally accepted that the novel coronavirus, COVID-19 , was first seen in Wuhan, China, during the last days of 2019. One of the many challenges facing the world’s governments is the fact that no one really knows how this virus behaves. A solopreneur is essentially an entrepreneur who does not hire any staff.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 18, 2019

Railroads and telegraphs enabled new networks of communication and distribution. Granted, there are a handful of nations, including China, France, Canada, and the U.S., which have undertaken government-funded initiatives to accelerate AI development. There was a massive shift from rural living to cities.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 24, 2020

As most western countries remain mired in financial difficulties and, therefore, less attractive for businesses, China is emerging as the new go-to jurisdiction for success. Its fast-expanding middle class, solid economic expansion, and series of government reforms have made the China market a high-potential jurisdiction for success.

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Transformify

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Managing distributed workforce and remote teams was not something totally new for them. As the epidemic started in China, its economy suffered a lot and it’s still too early to predict the total losses. Most flights from and to China have been cancelled and it will definitely take time for the tourism industry to recover.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Finally, and importantly, society is better off because Amazon makes the system for distributing books (and other products) vastly more productive, freeing up resources for other value-creating investments. The second is distribution —the ability to get product into the hands of customers. Plenty of headroom there!

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

— On China. Throughout the 1990s, we were focused on how to integrate China into the global system so that it would become a responsible stakeholder. That worked for a while, but at a certain point, particularly under President Xi, China decided that the hide-and-bide strategy was over. How Should the DoD Spend Smarter?

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Google has been investing in a broad healthcare portfolio, Amazon has been investing in pharmacy distribution and Apple…? Frustrated by the FDA’s 20 th century processes for 21 st century technology, companies hired lobbyists to force a change in the laws that guide the FDA regulations. Did Apple Cut in Front of the Line? In the U.S.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 11, 2020

Obviously, I think that in a time like this, this is when we should have a government response, but I don't think there's been enough of a government response focused on funding the things that can get us out of this. Then there's a great culture of testing and isolation like China did and I haven't heard a really convincing fourth.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. By aggressively launching a free to use service, Alibaba’s Taobao quickly became the leading person-to-person trading site in China.

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Board Effect

APRIL 3, 2020

As the demand for services is going up and the resources are going down, nonprofits are still needed to fill the gap in services that state and federal governments can’t provide on their own. This organization is limiting use of its volunteers and hiring more workers to clean and disinfect surfaces. Nonprofits Spring into Action.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 24, 2020

Hannu has called for mass coordination between the government and the private sector to get to a vaccine faster, not a few months faster but dramatically faster. And as a result, we got this new virus which was able to infect humans and we had this first outbreak in China, in Wuhan. It could be the federal government.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 6, 2019

Right now there is only one country with digital sovereignty and that’s China! But this didn’t stop the Government having the courage back then to take it and put the industry in public hands. These firms aren’t just big, they’ve colonised every country except China. An unstoppable economic force.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 30, 2015

He was intrigued by what this distributed infrastructure could mean for his work in Burma. I didn’t take out my phone – still a feature phone, this was the year the iPhone was released – as I was told I may be followed and arrested if the government thought I was a journalist.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 30, 2015

He was intrigued by what this distributed infrastructure could mean for his work in Burma. I didn’t take out my phone – still a feature phone, this was the year the iPhone was released – as I was told I may be followed and arrested if the government thought I was a journalist.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 30, 2015

He was intrigued by what this distributed infrastructure could mean for his work in Burma. I didn’t take out my phone – still a feature phone, this was the year the iPhone was released – as I was told I may be followed and arrested if the government thought I was a journalist.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

At that time, Udemy was already at the maturization phase, I think we were a fairly sizable company, and we had a strong executive team, and I thought just hiring a CEO for Udemy, and then me taking on this new challenge, sounded like the right thing to do. ER : So what is the mission of Carbon Health? EB : It is very simple.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2012

1940’s – movie studios had to divest their distribution channel – they owned over 50% of the movie theaters in the U.S. With a new channel of distribution, home movie rentals surpassed movie theater tickets. It was 75 years until studios had to deal with technology changing their platform and distribution channel.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 25, 2022

In his important new book, Dignity In A Digital Age , he explores how the tech industry can work harder to ensure the benefits it produces are equitably distributed, while also more effectively minimizing disinformation, encroachments on privacy, and other negative outputs.

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