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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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2012

Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars. Do basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Marketing (SEM) yourself. Sales and marketing costs. Skip the IT consultants and build an entry website yourself to save $50K.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MAY 10, 2012

Thanks to Apples iOS and Googles open source Android OS, smartphone and tablet apps have enjoyed a period of astounding success over the past few years. If it can be done on the Web, build it for the Web; if it can’t, build an app." Alex Schleifer , GM of the Media Lab at SAY Media. POPULAR TAGS. social media. advertising. developers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars. Do basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Marketing (SEM) yourself. Sales and marketing costs. Skip the IT consultants and build an entry website yourself to save $50K.

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Gust

JUNE 10, 2012

Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars. Do basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Marketing (SEM), like cohort analysis , yourself. Sales and marketing costs. Savings can be huge in these areas.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

The big economies of US, UK, China and Australia together recorded about $20 billion in marketplace loan origination. Lending Club and OnDeck have come out with IPOs which have been well-received showing the positive market sentiment about alternative lending through online platforms.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

If you’d like to capture the iPhone market, too, check out AppBreeder , a web-based iPhone app maker, or SwebApps , another tool for building iPhone applications. It might be smart to double-check your plans with an experienced and successful mobile and online marketing expert before beginning your app creation.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

After you post a question (let’s say, “How do daily deal or coupon websites handle marketing?&# ), anyone can post an answer. Topics are divided into IT, marketing, sales, finance, customer service, operations and human resources sections, which makes it easy to search for the latest discussions on your interest area.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars. Do basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Marketing (SEM) yourself. Sales and marketing costs. Skip the IT consultants and build an entry website yourself to save $50K.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 26, 2016

DF-21 and Islands in the South China Sea. Our goal is to open-source this class to other universities and create the 21 st Century version of Tech ROTC. Rapidly iterate technology to produce solutions while searching for product-market fit. Yet in the last decade the U.S. North Korea.

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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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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 16, 2015

This was a 14% increase over the previous year, and the e-retail now accounts for almost a quarter of the total retail market. Targeting Global Markets. These users, living in fast-developing countries like China, India, and Indonesia, will soon start to develop their own spending power. Incorporating New Payment Solutions.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

and China, and recently recorded their 1,000,000th download of Bonita Open Solution. The first step in the process of expansion is identifying which markets are of the most strategic significance to your business. Once you’ve targeted a market, however, things can quickly become convoluted and overwhelming.

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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. It’s how China approaches approvals and will allow U.S. Healthcare on Your Wrist. Did Apple Cut in Front of the Line? What’s Not Working?

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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. 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). Amazing, right?

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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. Example: wechat in China. It’s the “Frankenstack”.

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The Next Web

JULY 29, 2013

Over the past couple of years Berlin has attracted talented developers, designers, marketers and creative people from all across the globe. Those were problems we thought we were able to fix, but there was an even bigger opportunity in this market – many didn’t see. Understand trends and markets. No one believed in it.

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readwrite.com

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

It shows the most potential to challenge Android as the “more open” (read: more customizable) open source device platform, which should appeal to device makers. Only the most stubborn corporate environments (and China) still require IE6 support, and much of the world skipped IE7 anyway. Made For Chrome(kit).

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mashable.com

JULY 10, 2012

Static marketing is dead, and businesses of any size have to be creative to cut through the clutter. The danger with this type of marketing is the penchant for users to become annoyed due to the “creepy” nature of ads following them around. 7 Tips to Enhance Influencer Marketing. Business & Marketing. Remarketing.

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www.readwriteweb.com

APRIL 24, 2012

You wont need a site license to cover your entire team, but plan on supplementing Google Apps with copies of Office for key marketing and executive employees, as well as anyone who spends a lot of time working offline. Project Management/Tracking. Winner: BaseCamp. Pricing starts at $20 a month, with a 45-day free trial. POPULAR TAGS.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Pricing plans run from $50 per month to $1,200 per month, with available e-mail, marketing and CRM integration. The service comes with a strong anti-code, pro-marketing stance, putting the focus on optimizing for conversion rather than tinkering around in CSS. Check out Genetify’s live demo to see how it works in practice.

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Developer Software Review PHP Social Media 73

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

My work took me all around the world and during one of these trips I was pleasantly shocked to see the prices at which designer perfumes and colognes sold for in some markets overseas. In further pursuit of this idea, I came to learn that designer merchandise is a high-demand market. I mean why not? I knew there was a need.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2020

Well, the financial market right now for raising more money as a sepsis company is not a good place to be. There was no market sizing pitch or whatever that one had to do in the beginning to explain why this was such an important problem. Eric Ries : Did you have to talk to your investors about it? They were very understanding.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 10, 2024

billion in annualised revenue , an a myriad of new companies were born, from open source LLMs to application layer startups that were able to move fast and do much more with less. Open source LLMs have been improving at a rapid pace, have an active developer community and can be an attractive alternative, if managed properly.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

I first spent time trying to build it myself leveraging open source tools, applying my skills from a single CS class, and trying to be an autodidactic coder. So, we chose a business concept, established the pain point, discussed the solution, identified monetization and customer acquisition strategies, and assessed market opportunity.

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Kodorra

AUGUST 23, 2018

But these companies are the best in their markets. Always trying to foresee what the market or customers want is never going to cut it, unless you have the foresight of Steve Jobs. Build your product, get your friends and family (those in your target market, of course) to test it and get feedback. Unless you’re in U.S

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 4, 2020

Prior to Covid Act Now, I was at Google and Firebase as a senior data science and Go-To-Market leader. In January, I started building a model just to try to understand as it was starting to spread it in China, just understanding the nature of the spread. Eric Ries : Max. It was designed just to share with me and mine, right?

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New York Campaign Technical Review Germany 60

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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VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2010

It is the B2B advertiser’s Mecca, but it is an undeserved market when it comes to user experience and consolidation of services. Long story short, I ended up spending a year and a half in China from 2008 to 2010 and now I’m hard at work with BizMe2. VC Cafe: What can you tell me about the market for BizMe2?

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

An AI leverages deep natural language processing, text analysis, and computational linguistics to gain insight into customer opinion, understanding of consumer sentiment , and measuring the impact of marketing strategies. Open-Source Code, Pretrained Models and Frameworks. Open-Source Code, Pretrained Models and Frameworks.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Top 5 Mashable Lists Twitter List Directory » 1 @mashable/mashable Followers: 8832 Members: 33 2 @mashable/social-media Followers: 7013 Members: 98 3 @mashable/marketing Followers: 4184 Members: 51 4 @mashable/tech Followers: 3115 Members: 65 5 @mashable/media Followers: 2751 Members: 92 Get Mashable updates on your mobile device!

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2020

I laugh all the time, our brand work was done by a remarkable woman, Sarah Watson, who was VP of marketing at Away. And you guys keep referencing the Slack and all these people, and there's a head of marketing of this. Clinician side, hospital coordinators, restaurant industry, marketing, press, legal, design.

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San Francisco Founder Community Software Review 68

Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2009

Jobs Keeping an Auto Industry as a strategic national resource Energy Independence Clean Energy I proposed that in exchange for the GM bailout we spin out the Chevy Volt into an open source electric car platform. will be able to build on the Volt Platform, but all drivetrain improvements are open source.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. Today open source software has slashed the cost of software development from millions of dollars to thousands. The emergence of incubators and super angels have dramatically expanded the sources of seed capital.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

I’ve seen the Valley grow from Sunnyvale to Santa Clara to today where it stretches from San Jose to South of Market in San Francisco. But in the 20 th century, dominated by hardware, software, and life sciences, technology swings inside an existing market happened slowly — taking years, not months. or Euro-centric phenomenon.

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BeyondVC

SEPTEMBER 20, 2006

"China and India combined to produce nearly half the world’s economic output in 1820 compared to just 1.8% Tying into Michael Milken’s graph of the world economy in the past is this Goldman Sachs one showing who the economic leaders will be in the future – notice China as #1 and India as #3 by 2040. for the U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

The important lesson in order to gain market share was that in order for new users to try Microsoft Excel, they had to be able to work with the files their coworkers were creating. It was the first internet company to lose money on its first day on the public markets. Marketing materials. What did you learn at Juno?

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