Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

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. Customers, for example, are recast as “beneficiaries,” and instead of identifying revenue streams, these diplo-preneurs are interested in defining “mission achievement.”).

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2013

Market and opportunity risk. There is always less risk with a well-defined problem in a large and growing market. All the people in China is a large and growing market, but all the people with cancer is much more well-defined. Market entry strategy risk. Competitive risk. Political and economic risk.

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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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2012

Market and opportunity risk. There is always less risk with a well-defined problem in a large and growing market. All the people in China is a large and growing market, but all the people with cancer is much more well-defined. Market entry strategy risk. Competitive risk. Political and economic risk.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Market and opportunity risk. There is always less risk with a well-defined problem in a large and growing market. All the people in China is a large and growing market, but all the people with cancer is much more well-defined. Market entry strategy risk. Competitive risk. Political and economic risk.

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Mucker Lab

DECEMBER 2, 2015

However, the rise of the Internet equalized if not flipped the ratio as the web (and mobile) created a new product category and distribution platform. For the first time, entrepreneurs could build consumer services AND distribute them at scale with almost no physical middle men and inventory costs. Take the example of MP3 players.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

There are times when small and slow is the right strategy for a specific market opportunity. 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.

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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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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. It means relying on your own savings and revenue to operate and expand.”. Attract customers through content marketing. times higher for content market leaders than it is for followers.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 1, 2015

So around 800 AD some clever folks in China developed the world’s first paper currency, which served as a kind of “promise” against a future payment of something else, such as precious metals. The Mobile Phone (1973). In 1973, Motorola launched the first handheld mobile phone. The most amazing thing of all?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2022

I found some good lessons in this regard in a classic book, “ Becoming Facebook ,” by Mike Hoefflinger, the former Head of Global Business Marketing at Facebook. Too many choices confuse all customers, and make your job in marketing, distribution, and support much more difficult. Revenue and competitive position followed.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

But like lemmings, every company in the market rushed to proclaim they were launching WAP versions of their products. 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?&# It came to me. They may not.

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Rob Go

JANUARY 21, 2016

Convenience tends to be an area where incumbents struggle, especially when convenience is tied to new forms of distribution. Incumbents are where they are because they have scale through the existing large modes of distribution (eg: physical retail). Why Convenience is Better.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 26, 2019

Do you plan to regularly refresh your marketing collateral? When is the right time to diversify your paid marketing mix? More mature DTC brands are finding success with a broad range of marketing channels?—?paid If you’re manufacturing in China, have you considered alternatives and trade-offs? And something always breaks.)

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K9 Ventures

JULY 21, 2016

As a kid I used to trek down to the “electronics bazaar” in New Delhi, known as Lajpat Rai Market , and go store to store to try and find the components I needed for whatever I was building. Almost all the iconic startup hardware products that you see on the market are designed by professional industrial designers.

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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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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

If you look at the mobile marketing strategies, you will see they don't reflect this shift to mobile. They use different technologies of course, and different distribution mechanisms. If you are in a feature phone majority market, and that market has most of the monetizable behavior, please invest in unique tracking there.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2018

#CXLLive speaker @HanaAbaza talking change and driving growth thru better marketing @Shopify #digitalmarketing #betterleadgen pic.twitter.com/mZhn60TUW2. Marketing can polish a turd. Positioning isn’t something marketing makes up, it’s something marketing uncovers. mobile is ~50% of revenue, shorter form works better.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2019

I found some good lessons in this regard in a classic book, “ Becoming Facebook ,” by Mike Hoefflinger, the former Head of Global Business Marketing at Facebook. Too many choices confuse all customers, and make your job in marketing, distribution, and support much more difficult. Revenue and competitive position followed.

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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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VC Cafe

MARCH 18, 2014

Although relatively few Israeli startups are focused on India, the market dynamics driving its mobile sector are worth a closer look. Despite the momentum with India, Israel-China (including Hong Kong) trade is on-track to hit $10 billion this year, representing 13% of total Israeli exports (Bank of Israel). 250 million Internet users.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Large tech companies like Google, Amazon, Apple recognize that the multi- trillion dollar health care market is ripe for disruption and have poured billions of dollars into the space. Google has been investing in a broad healthcare portfolio, Amazon has been investing in pharmacy distribution and Apple…? The Future.

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www.pakman.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

To build the online media giants of tomorrow, companies need models where the costs of both content and distribution are near zero. At that scale, you can reach billions of dollars in revenue. We can perhaps look to China, where social platforms are much more fragmented and organized around interests and demographics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2017

I found some good lessons in this regard in a new book, “ Becoming Facebook ,” by Mike Hoefflinger, the former Head of Global Business Marketing at Facebook. Too many choices confuse all customers, and make your job in marketing, distribution, and support much more difficult. Revenue and competitive position followed.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2013

Let me start by saying that Clayton is one of the most influential people on my thoughts about markets that led to both the concept behind my first startup and my main theses in investing. Obviously that barrier has been brought down with low-cost ability to capture, stream and distribute content over the Internet.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

That world is called China. Even in China. Over time brands will realize that marketing into a closed system isn’t good for their long-term customer relationships. Market forces win. And I believe that market forces, short of physical armies constraining them, bend toward open. non-mobile). As was Microsoft.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 26, 2017

To achieve this goal, logistics now needs to work across the company from the front-end to the back-end, seamlessly integrating production, inventory, marketing, sales, payments, distribution and product returns [3] to optimize the supply chain model that balances cost efficiencies with keeping customers happy. 10] “ Industry 4.0:

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 15, 2014

“Small business owners know that reaching a global market can exponentially increase their sales, but many aren’t sure where to start,” explains Carey Kolaja, Vice President, Global Product Solutions, PayPal. Then there’s also Golden Week in Japan, as well as Click Frenzy in Australia.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

中文-简体 (China). Loading… Markets. Loading… Market Data. Media & Marketing. Marketing & Strategy. Distribution and use of this material are governed by our Subscriber Agreement and by copyright law. Ran gold Resources Ltd. View All Search Results » Subscribe.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

BigBand Networks, which has more than 200 customers in North America, Asia and Europe, provides broadband service providers with digital video networking solutions designed to make it easier to distribute, manage and monetize video. Fifty of its manufacturing activities and 70% of its consolidated revenues derive from global operations.

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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. Are Israeli companies on the verge of developing a repeatable playbook to scale their companies and become market leaders, not just acquisition fodder for the Silicon Valley giants? That’s the good news.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

Mobile gaming company Oberon Media raised a fifth round of $16 million – some of the funds raised are from previous investors Goldman Sachs, Infinity I-China Fund and Oak Investment Partners. Going App 2010 – Learn the basics of creating and distributing mobile apps for iPhone, Android, Nokia, and other smartphones.

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 6, 2019

Everything you read below is through the lens of enabling free enterprise and ensuring we have a free and competitive market place. One where we can keep in check a very small number of giant invasive species which threaten to destroy the free market ecosystem. Numbers for Australian market. At best, season by season.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

and the emergence of new industries, markets and customers. and concentrated on a single part of the supply chain – importing, distribution, wholesale, retail. In the 1920’s companies moved from monolithic functional organizations (sales, marketing, manufacturing, purchasing, etc.)

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 27, 2017

In India, there are about a dozen mobile payment players in the field including Paytm, Mobikwik, Oxigen, Citrus Pay, Freecharge, M-Pesa, ItzCash, Itzcash, Airtel Money, mRupee and MoneyOnMobile which has serviced over 170 million cumulative unique mobile phone subscribers through over 306,000 retail distribution points across India.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2020

They threw a pizza party that first night, they've now raised millions of dollars and have thrown hundreds of thousands more, not just in support of frontline workers, but in support of restaurants who, as everyone knows, are struggling in these times with a dramatic decline in revenue, in customers. So Frontline Foods is a genuine win-win.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Not sure about what percentage of those get used (there’s more than 125 million active vs. unknown no of parked domains), but many of the owners try their luck and spend money on hosting, design, development and maybe even a little bit of marketing. based in emerging markets: Russia, China, India.

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