Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Within a few months, they raised $30,000 (which was a lot of money for them) and were invited to an incubator for new business owners, where they learned how to run a company. That’s quite a turnaround from gaining $30,000 in funding and joining a startup incubator. Airbnb now makes $2.5 billion in annual revenue.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Think about this; 7 years ago Nokia owned 50% of the handset market. Fast-forward to today—Apple is the most profitable Smartphone company in the world and in Spain Android commands a market share of more than 90%. Its worldwide market share of Smartphones has dwindled to 5%. Apple owned 0%.

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VC Cafe

JULY 29, 2016

of imports and $900 million of exports) a paltry fraction of Israel’s $45 billion bi-lateral trade with the United States or $15 billion with China. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, keen to reassert Japan as a leading global player, and fearful of an ascendant China, is encouraging stronger ties with Israel. Billion ($1.6

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Here’s what Will had to say: Competition with China. I view the competition with China as one of the seminal challenges that we’re going to face in this century. It’s a sizable market. It’s interesting to note how many of his observations echo the ones Chris Brose made in the previous session.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 31, 2021

A dramatic proxy war in 1915 helped him retake control, but the new vehicle market crashed in 1918, and he lost it forever. Expert guidance is given on social media, marketing , influencer integration, licensing, and other topics. Yuan came to the United States on his eighth attempt to migrate from China. 5- WhatsApp founders.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 9, 2012

When we went to meet Hillary Clinton in China he wore a t-shirt and sandals. The Dave I know is very insightful about marketing, channel management and building developer ecosystems. Wasn’t when Dave started championing it and making it a tenet of his incubator class. But Dave is Dave. Foul mouthed. Chain smoking (cloves).

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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. As I touched on before, China and India have the most mature VC communities. SingTel Inno8 ), as well as one of the marquee cross-regional startup incubators, JFDI.

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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. Investing in China Today. All the usual caveats apply.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Israeli navigation tech start-up Waze raised a $30 million investment from Hong Kong’s Li Ka-shing, greater China’s richest man. HADASIT LAUNCHES JEWISH-ARAB BIOMED INCUBATOR IN GALILEE. ISRAELI START-UP WAZE DRAWS INVESTMENT FROM CHINESE BILLIONAIRE. In addition to an initial 7.5

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

Launch48 is a new kind of micro-incubator taking place over the course of a weekend, which enables entrepreneurs to pitch their concept in one minute, in order to find team mates who are interested in pursuing the idea. For example, you may point out that there is a company with similar technology, but different application/market.

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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. Investing in China Today. All the usual caveats apply.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2015

We do love sharing articles about fonts, logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, economics and other interesting stuff! India Replaces China as Next Big Frontier for U.S. The Future of Marketing: What Will Your Marketing Look Like in 2017? crowdspring.co/1gRDXaT.

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David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

Marketing of tech community : Yale Tech News , Yale Entrepreneurship Magazine. Or Yale could develop a legaltech incubation program and to help improve lawyers’ productivity, a profession whose primary tech tool is Microsoft Word. Incubate non-Yalies. Access to University’s Intellectual Property : Office of Cooperative Research.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 13, 2016

The rise of global open source hardware platforms offers tools for creating lower-cost IoT hardware, but the industry falls short when it comes to support for distribution and market awareness. Thanks to this lab, your working prototype is born, and ready to be incubated. China’s supply chain benefits startups in many ways.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2014

Events for enthusiasts, called Maker Faires, now stretch far outside California to places such as Detroit, New York and even Shenzhen, China. In today’s fast moving market, the basic product development cost and time are critical to survival. A recent California event packed in 100,000 people.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

I’ve been hearing about the so-called Series A Crunch for at least six months, and in recent weeks, I’ve spoken with more than 20 venture capitalists, angel investors, incubator heads, lawyers, and other necessary cogs in the ecosystem trying to get some details about it. Those numbers are likely conservative. November 29, 2012.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 4, 2014

Facing continuous disruption from globalization, China, the Internet, the diminished power of brands, changing workforce, etc., For example, the Boston Consulting Group 2 x 2 growth-share matrix was an easy to understand strategy tool – a market selection matrix for companies looking for growth opportunities. Strategy Maps.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 1, 2015

For decades large companies have set up R&D labs outside their corporate headquarters , often in foreign countries, in spite of having a large home market with lots local R&D talent. They improved their penetration of local and regional markets by adapting their products to the country or region. are examples.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

The key investors to keep tabs on are, for the most part, concentrated in four primary markets: China. With the strengthening Yuan , China is a great place to look for funding right now. Of course, to land any funding, you typically have to be based there and focused on the Chinese market.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 3, 2011

Raj presented a 3 million total available market of Google App users as his target audience. My sense is the market is not as broad, and most small businesses do not hire very actively. Groupon China happens to be a customer of Recruiterbox, and found them through organic search. You can register for upcoming roundtables here.

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Scott Edward Walker

JULY 25, 2013

Usually to change the world you need to hit the market with force.” (at The ‘lean startup’ philosophy makes a lot of sense at the beginning of the company when you’re trying to get to product-market fit.” (at Basic contract law is still a challenge in China. This is the problem at the heart of the incubator model.” (at

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Loading… Markets. Craig Walker, co-founder and CEO of Firespotter Labs, a technology incubator, said it feels unnatural to bestow so much voting power on one executive. China Lifts Spending as Growth Ebbs. Marketing Jobs. Welcome, Logout. Customer Center. My Journal. Message Center ( new). Edition Home.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Whether you’re wondering what site search you should use or what is the best email marketing tool, knowledge is power. Inbound Marketing vs Interruption marketing. Email marketing. Market Research. Promotions/Marketing. Put up a LaunchRock Page and get your marketing working right away.

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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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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. doing postdoctoral internships, supervised by faculty members or hired staff (many from Fred Terman’s WWII Electronic Warfare lab.)

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

There are obvious reasons the industry has had less-than-desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2020

First in Wuhan, China, and then the fact that it can spread so quickly in Italy and continental Europe really surprises me and I think a lot of others as well in the scientific community. We're very fortunate that the YCombinator program took us on and is our incubator company, all of that. Eric Ries : When was that? Eric Ries : Wow.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

So, we chose a business concept, established the pain point, discussed the solution, identified monetization and customer acquisition strategies, and assessed market opportunity. This is an opportunity for business women to get away for the weekend, incubate ideas, rally resources, access peer mentoring, and network with other entrepreneurs.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Vaynerchuk also recommends self-funding the incubation process, unless the industry you’re in is about to explode. 4 Frighteningly Fun Zombie iPhone Games Apple Launches Online Store in China 5 Fun iPhone Accessories for Kids Apple Now Offers Free iPad Engraving View More » Mobile New T-Mobile Ad Makes Fun of AT&Ts N.

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www.readwriteweb.com

APRIL 23, 2012

Pinterest can hire, Square can hire, Dropbox can hire - these companies have a clear demand for their products and are becoming market leaders," explains Naval Ravikant, founder of startup advice site Venture Hacks. You must treat early hires like late founders, or you wont be able to hire until you get market traction," Ravikant warns. "If

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entrepreMusings

MARCH 6, 2010

The panelists were Joel Trammel of NetQoS, Rod Favaron of Lombardi Software (an Austin Technology Incubator alum through it’s now defunct parent called OpenPlus), and Craig Malloy of Lifesize Communications. With the Semantic Web, you can ask things like “How many white elephants are there in China who belong to people making over $10K?”

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 24, 2016

With China being the second largest economy in the world and having a fast growing middle income class, there is an enormous amount of money being spent by Chinese on any product that is coming from the West. The two companies I’ve founded share services such as marketing, engineering, and operational support.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

They begin on the eastern edge of the city near the Ferry Building and spread westward along Market Street. Currently located in the historic Southern Pacific building at One Market Street, Salesforce has plans to occupy a twenty-seven-floor tower at 350 Mission across from the new Transbay Terminal in 2015.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

JANUARY 19, 2015

Or, if your boss asked you to do an interpretive dance of your marketing challenge you might tell him to take a flying leap through a rolling doughnut! This simple combination created a market-leading brand for Skechers. Made in China. This is your business problem, challenge, or market-area opportunity. Do the dance.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

My original thinking from Oct ’09 was, while I didn’t (and still don’t) have a crystal ball I worried that: consumers were over-stretched with debt (and make up 77% of the economy), unemployment would continue to rise, which in turn would drive the stock market south and cut the rate of M&A activity and VC investment even further.

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