Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2013

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. What a long strange trip China has been through.

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China Taiwan Silicon Valley Guam 315

Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

China’s Age of Malaise [Evan Osnos/New Yorker] – A loooong read but essential stuff if you are interested in China from an sort of view (cultural, economic, geopolitical, startup). When I return to China these days, the feeling of ineluctable ascent has waned.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Are you thinking about setting up a WFOE in China? Starting a business venture, especially in China, can be pretty tedious and confusing. Inaugurating A Business In China – A Step-By-Step Guide . Manufacturing WFOE (you’ll be allowed to manufacture your products in China). But, what’s next?

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Version One Ventures

MAY 3, 2023

A few observations from my time in India: Geography India recently surpassed China to become the world’s most populous country. It’s obviously very large, but most start-up activity is concentrated in a few cities: Bangalore (the “Silicon Valley” of India), Delhi (the 33m strong capital of India), Mumbai (the financial capital) and Chennai.

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India LP Silicon Valley Vertical 87

Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2013

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. The Rise of Chinese Venture Capital. Like the U.S.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2013

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. What a long strange trip China has been through.

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China Taiwan Silicon Valley Guam 207

Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

The Capital Factory Center for Defense Innovation is an unprecedented collaboration between the public and private sector that brings together entrepreneurs and government innovators shoulder-to-shoulder in a coworking environment where they can learn from each other. Entrepreneurship in China: Will they Eat Your Lunch?

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Silicon Valley Technical Review Texas Venture Capital 50

David Teten

JULY 29, 2011

A bit belatedly (due to a backlog of blog postings), I wanted to announce ff Venture Capital ‘s summer intern class. Franklin Bi became passionate about venture capital and entrepreneurship after he spent a summer in Silicon Valley, working on an information services startup focused on innovation management.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 28, 2010

.; (6) The most efficient fuel for this IPO engine is venture capital. government dataset compiled by the U.S. .” “… it is highly unlikely that a company that does not take venture capital ends up going public. … Four of the twenty companies with the largest market capitalization in the U.S.—Microsft,

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Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 5, 2010

I never expected to have my first book published in China, much less in Mandarin, but that goes to show how much the world continues to change. My contributions to this undergraduate textbook, Venture Capital: Theory & Practice , are the result of two important collaborations. Venture Capital is a popular buzzword in China.

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Venture Capital China Technical Review Due Diligence 44

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 28, 2016

He has a vision and the experience to create a non-partisan organization to engage and educate people, especially policymakers in government, regarding the critical importance of entrepreneurs and startups to innovation, economic growth, and job creation. It’s a great book that every policy maker in government at any level should read.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 29, 2023

According to Jungle Ventures, Southeast Asia’s technology startups had a combined valuation of $340 billion in 2020. Venture capital (VC) investment is the primary funding source for regional startups. The United States and China often influence the entrepreneurial spirit in this region. billion in 2018.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

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. China Venture Capital. China now has plenty of both.

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Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 267

The Startup Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

What’s more, the Swiss government is proactive in encouraging this by reducing red-tape to streamline startup processes and remove roadblocks to success. of its GDP in research and development, which is one of the highest rates in the world –– for context, the US invests 3.1%, the UK 1.8%, and China 2.2%.

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Switzerland Artificial Inteligence Silicon Valley Europe 179

crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

The past year saw startups on the rise, an increase in venture capital funding (both in real dollars and numbers of companies funded), a resurgence of IPOs, and the rise of David against Goliath, as best represented by Groupon’s spurning of a $6 billion offer from Google. Investors will be bullish on startups.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 8, 2022

And China is outpacing us by adopting the very innovation methods we invented, integrating commercial technology with academic research, and delivering it to the Peoples Liberation Army. Integrate and incent the Venture Capital/Private Equity ecosystem to invest at scale.

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Security Silicon Valley China Private Equity 217

The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

However, this primarily applies to businesses within China and India, where these big firms reside, as they rarely invest in startups outside of those two countries. The venture capital landscape in Asia is varied and complex, as most of the active firms on the continent are concentrated in just a few areas.

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Asia Silicon Valley India Term Sheet 132

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

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. China Venture Capital. China now has plenty of both.

Silicon Valley 159

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 159

David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

My former Partner John Frankel of ff Venture Capital observes that 20 years ago, the defining movie of the generation was “Wall Street”. Political science, government service, and law — Yale has the #1 rated law school in the US and a long history of alumni serving in government. “CEO is the new Analyst.”.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 9, 2010

First up today was Jacqueline Floro-Pierre with ShopTranslated from China. Jacqueline and her partner Cortney are designing and manufacturing the line out of China and selling in the U.S. Malaysia, India, China, Italy, Argentina, wherever), you are better off raising money locally. Google Adwords advertising. That sounds great.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2016

“It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government, except all those others that have been tried” – Winston Churchill. And there was a great discussion about generational change at Venture Capital firms handled so well by Benchmark & Sequoia and how Fred is thinking about it. Leading me back to Churchill.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

Friday, March 9 Attracting VC Funding Outside Silicon Valley Panel with HomeAway founder Brian Sharples & Capital Factory Director Gordon Daugherty We do a lot of things differently in Texas, including fundraising. Contrasting China via their Zhi-Xing (? ?, 4:30PM Hilton?—?Salon March 13, 2018 3:30PM?

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Technical Review Silicon Valley Texas Austin 58

BeyondVC

APRIL 28, 2005

I recently caught up with my friend Derek Sulger, founder of Linktone (Nasdaq: LTON) and current founder and CFO of Smartpay , a Paypal-like play in China (I really like what Derek is doing with this one-no credit in China, use the mobile phones for debiting from bank accounts). His thoughts make a ton of sense.

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Venture Capital China Intellectual Property IP 60

Version One Ventures

JANUARY 23, 2019

Much of today’s uncertainty can impact start-ups… When will the US government shutdown end? Are we heading into a US-China trade war? And if there is a recession, will there be less venture capital available for start-ups in 2019? Will both of those events trigger a recession after a 10-year economic expansion?

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Burn Rate Later Stage China Venture Capital 90

The Startup Magazine

MAY 15, 2018

According to the 2018 Global Startup Ecosystem Report , in 2017, global venture capital investments reached the record of $140 billion, while the total value creation of the world’s startup economy hit astonishing $2.3 The study mentioned above shows that 35% of unicorns were from China in 2017, while the number of the U.S.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

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. The previous post described how China built its science and technology infrastructure. It has become China’s Silicon Valley.

Programming 278

Programming Technical Review SBIR China 278

YoungUpstarts

JULY 12, 2017

Further, Amazon took its marketing to the next level by pricing Prime subscriptions at a nearly 50 percent discount for people on government assistance. Low-income markets using government subsidies are attractive to retailers. Amazon and other like-minded brands clearly care about the needs of low-income consumers.

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Marketing LLC China Government 113

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. Crisis versus opportunity: Setting the Scene. This virus is a zoonotic virus.

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Bootstrapping Global Startup Hungary 85

Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

In 1949, with the detection of the first Soviet nuclear weapons test, the Iron Curtain falling across Europe and the fall of China to the Communists, Cold War paranoia drove the U.S. The university found government contracts profitable as the government reimbursed their overhead charges (their indirect costs.)

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Silicon Valley RSS California Government 142

abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 17, 2014

Interbank transfers all over China are also same day. Banking may be naturally prone to this calcification, and it is worth noting that the low credit card fees in Australia/France, as well as the FPS in the UK were the result of government intervention. In 2013 there were 967 million FPS transactions.

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Finance Silicon Valley Madagascar China 83

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

Everyone wants to sell to 1% of China… It’s hard to exactly know your niche in the beginning, so Pivot if you have to. To name a few: FFF (Friends, Family and Fools), Angels and “super angels&# , venture capital funds, government grants, incubators, corporate venture capital funds and more.

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Elevator Pitch Incubator Technical Review Startup 102

Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

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. The previous post described how China built its science and technology infrastructure. It has become China’s Silicon Valley.

Programming 170

Programming Technical Review SBIR China 170

Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

Economic inequality and opportunities for job growth are directly correlated with overall spending levels on R&D and with the geographic concentration (or distribution) or those dollars — both public funding (government) and private (as with VC). As noted above, government spending on R&D has fallen and at the same time U.S.

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Silicon Valley Non-Compete San Francisco Government 36

Austin Startup

JANUARY 2, 2021

They are coming from the East and West Coasts, from London and China and Tel Aviv. Some are running away from skyrocketing tax rates, dysfunctional government, and devastating wildfires. Why does it feel different here than other cities? People are moving to Austin from all over the US and all over the world.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Much of the hardware was, and still is, imported from China and other overseas locations, but US-based entrepreneurs took advantage of this new industry, imported vaping devices, started mixing vape liquids and either launched storefront shops, e-commerce operations or became back-end supply chain operators distributing the products to retailers.

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Private Equity China Equity Bootstrapping 99

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

中文-简体 (China). SIGNIFICANCE PROMINENT. --> The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail. An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. Ran gold Resources Ltd. View All Search Results » Subscribe. América Latina.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

APRIL 18, 2012

Many believe that the USA simply can’t compete with offshore countries like China. VC’s would do well, as would local government officials, to stifle the yawn, and invest, but it’s a tough sell. USA labor is too high etc. Well, that’s a lot of malarkey.

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