Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Resources are what the team needs to hire or own inside their company — the team’s physical, financial, human and intellectual property. Times China bureau chief Julie Makinen , who is on a JSK journalism fellowship at Stanford , and is part of our mentorship team, has been taking notes on Weeks 7 and 8. It’s tough.

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Silicon Valley Washington United Kingdom Lean 120

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Resources are what the team needs to hire or own inside their company — the team’s physical, financial, human and intellectual property. Times China bureau chief Julie Makinen , who is on a JSK journalism fellowship at Stanford , and is part of our mentorship team, has been taking notes on Weeks 7 and 8. It’s tough.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Washington United Kingdom Lean 120

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Again, Seth: “One of the things I noticed when I looked around at startups is that often the founding teams hired people just like themselves. After Meebo launched, his friends helped him get the word out and soon they were getting coverage as far a China and India. We then spoke about startups. Tell us about the Meebo launch.

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Connecticut Cofounder Silicon Valley Web 286

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

I did what’s called a hybrid publisher where I actually owned all the creative and then the production parts or the backend and the distribution came from a publishing service that offers that. In China, they kept losing these employees and they couldn’t figure out why. Jay Acunzo: Yeah. Not a lot of people know this story.

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China New York City New York Technical Review 64

Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

The African-American community with a global movement known as the Afro-Tech quietly mastered blockchain/distributed ledger technology several years ago to benefit urban communities. What We Discovered About Blockchain The Afro-Tech approached blockchain and distributed ledger as how it will affect African-Americans in everyday living.

Technical Review 54

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Scalable Startup

JANUARY 15, 2015

Hire them 8 hours at a time and review daily by skype, g hangout. The way I’ve done it when I wanted to grow an organization in China, was to start with a centralized model where I have local reck leads responsible for offshore engineers. Its like hiring a resource once you hire a great resource you never need to worry about it.

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Offshore Web Development Europe Web 20

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

Not only is this more productive, it is also easier to integrate all functions of the business from branding to channel distribution and export marketing, which helps strengthen company operations. Appoint a central agency or have an in-house team dedicated to a specific business function that covers all markets. Tip 5: Smart resourcing.

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Singapore Global Marketing Cofounder 100

Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Part of why I’m on this trip with Wences Casares (founder and CEO of Xapo ) is to learn (and share) a broader view of entrepreneurship, where the strategies of Blitzscaling can be applied outside of Silicon Valley and China, and participate in Endeavor’s critical global mission for building the industries, companies, and jobs of the future.

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Chile Global Silicon Valley Estonia 36

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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South Korea China Japan Asia 104

Up and Running

MAY 25, 2012

When it comes to expansion, owners invariably find themselves dreaming of an accelerated state of operations which includes extensive research, game-changing product innovation, new hiring, training and daily decision making. And for coffee distribution, you’ll have to press elbows with Starbucks in Guatemala. And oh yes… travel.

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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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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. A solopreneur is essentially an entrepreneur who does not hire any staff. Crisis versus opportunity: Setting the Scene. This virus is a zoonotic virus. Partner with a professional business services company.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 4, 2013

The difference between “remote” and “distributed” is that in a remote team, there is a company office(s) where some team members are based full-time. A distributed team has no location base – everyone is in a different place. But distributiveness solves a lot of problems, including that of being remote. Hire those you trust.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 26, 2019

Many DTC brands eventually hire someone to specifically focus on reducing the impact of credit card errors. One thing worth considering is that your gross margins will tell you whether certain distribution channels are viable?—?for If you’re manufacturing in China, have you considered alternatives and trade-offs?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

The moderator asked each of us panelists the asinine question, “tell us what you’re doing about WAP!&# (you know, as in “tell us what you’re doing about China?&# You’ve just hired your iPhone development team for you app. Should you now hire Android developers? It came to me.

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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., Electrification meant people could suddenly do far more at night than they’d ever done before. There was a massive shift from rural living to cities.

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K9 Ventures

JULY 21, 2016

Sourcing may also involve several trips to China, India, Thailand, or other countries and cities that you may not otherwise consider traveling to for vacation. If you do a launch it’s rare for the launch to take of organically, it must also be accompanied by a level of paid distribution (i.e. Yup, a $0.50 RJ-45 cable.

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Transformify

AUGUST 1, 2022

The same is applicable to the minimum wage and the average market pay rate if you are planning on opening an office and hiring distributed workforce overseas. Singapore, China, India, and some other Asian countries have become economic production areas. Allows you to offset the fluctuations in the existing local market.

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Global Merger Technical Review Singapore 52

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? The Future.

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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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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Leaders (company is leaving China, our IPO is next week, 1,800 new stores are being opened in 180 days, our new IRR is 8%). The sources providing this information continue to be insightful in many services they offer, and you should definitely hire them if you need those services. And other such things.

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Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

How do you deal with a severely uneven distribution of investment success between individuals or groups of partners? You either start trying to invest in stuff you know less well or you hire a bunch of other partners who you hope know that stuff better than you.

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Transformify

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Just a month later, ‘’the promising candidate’’ already falls in the ‘’bad hire’’ category. A survey conducted by accounting and finance recruitment specialists Robert Half revealed that 1 in 10 recruits were considered a ‘poor hiring decision’ by their employers, poor odds indeed.

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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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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2018

Amazon has hired more people for their Alexa division than Google has for the entire company – it’s not hunch, this is going to be the focus. Hire & fire – tools to do a job. Example: wechat in China. In an A/A test the distribution of p-values is random. Map entire customer journey. Use data enrichment.

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Retention Artificial Inteligence Channel Email 106

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

They use different technologies of course, and different distribution mechanisms. According to Pew, while cell phones are nearly ubiquitous around the world (95% China, 91% Chile, 82% Kenya), penetration of smartphones are still getting there (37% China, 39% Chile, 19% Kenya). You have to solve for all of them.

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Analytics Metrics Mobile DC 141

Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 6, 2020

My post The Future Of Work Is Distributed received some good comments. ” It’s an important nuance, as there is a big difference between a fully distributed workforce (which the blockchain kids refer to as a “decentralized workforce”) and a multi-location workforce. .”

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 11, 2020

Then I remember seeing back when they were only maybe like a thousand worldwide cases outside of China, the shape of that graph, and I sort of realized at some point when it just looked like this perfect exponential, that it was beyond what was going to be contained. There's a good enough vaccine to get the virality rate below one.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Besides being “busy doing great deals and distributing cash to your LPs”, what are they’re actually doing to make that happen? Others may pick a geography (ala China)…“ I don’t see how anyone could be early to a space and be able to pull the non-obvious trigger without doing a lot of work beforehand. You need a risk-seeking appetite.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2020

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. We had someone that we hired that tested positive, was successfully quarantined, and then transitioned back into the group. What happened Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday?

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

Additionally, if you want to hire more engineers, how hard will it be to find people using this language. Need to hire others: This communicates they might not be as good as you want or just can’t hack it and solve the initial problem. You might as well hire an outsourced team. Thus, this is not the right co-founder for you.

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Cofounder Technical Review San Francisco Founder 47

Board Effect

APRIL 3, 2020

For example, food banks are not only facing fewer financial resources and an increase in demand for products, but they’re facing challenges with how to distribute food safely and find enough volunteers to help. This organization is limiting use of its volunteers and hiring more workers to clean and disinfect surfaces.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

of the world’s population — has more companies listed on the NASDAQ than any country in the world save the United States and China. Eighty-two percent have global offices, and yet 91% are still run by Israeli CEOs, as opposed to foreign executives hired from the outside. That’s the good news. American VCs are critical.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 24, 2020

And at some point in the recent past, one of these viruses mutated, experienced a recombination event with another virus, seemingly pangolins were involved somehow, these anteater-like armored creatures that live in China. 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.

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Founder Technical Review Leadership Software Review 60

Start Up Blog

JUNE 6, 2019

Right now there is only one country with digital sovereignty and that’s China! These firms aren’t just big, they’ve colonised every country except China. The truth is the mixed economy model is what has provided the greatest distribution of wealth the world has ever seen. The GPD of the USA was $20.4

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Government Algorithm Artificial Inteligence Social Media 79