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.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

6/ Venture Capital In Expansion Phase. Public investors, cross-over investors, and even traditional private equity firms have taken notice, further blurring the lines of what constitutes true venture capital. China’s growth over the past few decades has been remarkable. That so far may not be good enough.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

With venture capitalists around the world shifting their focus to Asia, here are 5 ways the surge in venture capital fundraising is shaking up the startup landscape in the region. KPMG’s Venture Pulse Q3 2017 reported that the Asian market has raised $12.3 Take China-based AI startup SenseTime, for example.

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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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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 8, 2023

Conferences are significant events for networking and getting to know people in your industry when you are a newbie to the business. In my experience, I follow different resources, for instance, the Andreessen Horowitz blog , one of the top venture capital funds reporting trends in their newsletters, and INC.5000

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Steve Blank

APRIL 19, 2010

Thirty plus years ago when I came to Silicon Valley Asian’s and Indian’s in high technology were a small minority and almost none were running companies or in venture capital. And how do we explain China ? China today is a hotbed of entrepreneurship. Or that no one was being nurtured in China in the 1960’s?

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

the wave of semiconductor startups in the 1960’s/70’s, the emergence of Venture Capital as a professional industry, the personal computer revolution in 1980’s, the rise of the Internet in the 1990’s and finally. China has simply become the factory. First, Venture Capital and angel investing is no longer a 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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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

Neural networks make up the backbone of deep learning. The “deep” in deep learning refers to the depth of layers in a neural network.) The difference between the network’s guess and the ground truth is its error. This reduces network bandwidth issues and eliminates latency issues. Examples here , here and here.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Today is amongst the proudest days I’ve had at Upfront Ventures — getting the chance to announce that Kevin Zhang has been promoted to Partner. years at Upfront has been both a pleasure and also has taught me a lot about venture capital. I mentioned at the start that Kevin has taught me something about Venture Capital.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Class 2 focused on China, the U.S.’s China is using all elements of its national power, e.g. information/ intelligence, its military might and economic strength as well as exploiting Western finance and technology. China’s goal is to challenge and overturn the U.S.-led China Unmanned Warfare Concepts.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2010

billion invested during the same three-month period in 2009, according to the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). Move your company to China, India, or Israel. Overall, venture capital investment fell in the United States last year but rose elsewhere. Personal networking is key. Marty Zwilling.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin!

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

He does this all round for the Capital Factory portfolio but this week he’ll be in high gear making hundreds of introductions and arranging hundreds of in-person meetings at Capital Factory. As a result, Latin America has emerged as a new hotspot for tech startups, alluring some of the top investors from the Silicon Valley and China.

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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 271

Steve Blank

APRIL 1, 2020

China and South Korea are starting their factories up again. Going forward, do you move your supply chain from China or at least create a second source from other countries? For those remaining employees, offer remote therapy to deal with the stress of working from home and pay for any equipment/network upgrades.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

At the time I noted that this created opportunity for other platforms to become more globally dominant, particularly as countries in the emerging markets leapfrogged wireline networks to ever faster mobile networks. In an era where so much is possible, WhatsApp focused on its core value proposition.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2021

Social commerce is a thing – Over 76M people in the US will make a purchase via a social network at least once this year (38.4% of US social network users) according to Falcon.io’s 2021 digital marketing trends. Snap and Tiktok fighting for users (source: eMarketer ). Immersive ar/vr/xr.

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Gust

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

A quick look at the really nice sites developed in just a few months by companies like CircleUp, FundersClub, Bolstr, Seedrs, et al will show you that the base technical challenge of creating a marketplace/social network is not particularly difficult.

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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 163

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. Contracts should be >$100M so high- quality venture-funded companies will play. Make it permanent by creating innovation doctrine/policy.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 28, 2016

Incentivize the Formation and Commitment of Angel Capital. Fix Venture Capital by Fixing the IPO Market. Increase Startups Access to Capital. China Free Trade Agreement. When I know, work with, and respect more than 50% of the board of a new non-profit, I pay attention. Jump-Start America’s Trade Agenda.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 26, 2019

In the meantime, figure out which of your college buddies works there or network your way to someone who does. If you’re manufacturing in China, have you considered alternatives and trade-offs? Is China still the cheapest option when you add a 25% tariff? And something always breaks.) Will you ship internationally?

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2022

In 2021 venture capital funds invested over $2 billion in 90+ Quantum technology companies. Quantum communications could allow secure networking but are not a viable near-term business. A quantum network’s value comes from its ability to distribute entanglement. Quantum Cryptography/Quantum Key Distribution.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 9, 2010

It is a very good format for entrepreneur groups around the world to get together and network around the roundtable programming which happens every week, religiously. First up today was Jacqueline Floro-Pierre with ShopTranslated from China. Malaysia, India, China, Italy, Argentina, wherever), you are better off raising money locally.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 13, 2019

on committing to building a network & giving first. Harry is probably best known for his podcast, The Twenty Minute VC , the world’s largest media asset in venture capital, with over five million downloads per month. He’s talked with amazing VCs and entrepreneurs on over 2,800 shows. Next step – triple digits.

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David Teten

JANUARY 13, 2015

Admit you have biases, like we all do, then recognize you need to put steps in place to overcome that – like start an NBA development league in China.” . So how can you network in to them if you didn’t win the genetic lottery? Your bias is a fog over opportunity. Own your “anti-pattern”. This is often the most challenging problem.

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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”. But now, the defining movie of today’s twentysomethings is “The Social Network”. It’s a cliche that one of the most important benefits of attending an elite university is the network.

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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. If you live in Texas, find out how you can tap into the network. Contrasting China via their Zhi-Xing (? ?,

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Social networking. Create your own social network. free enterprise social network. Sourcing in China. Smart China Sourcing. Boilerplate Venture Funding Documents. National Venture Capital Association â?? Google Forms.

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Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

I happen to be fascinated by the history of the VC industry, and one of the things we discussed at a recent offsite are the common threads behind the rise and fall of great venture capital firms. But we strive and aspire to build a firm that will excel and be around for awhile.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. In the last full year where we have data LA attracted $1.5 We see big data storage solutions and processing platforms.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

It became a theme in my keynote at Caltech on the future of social networking. He grew up in Connecticut attended Yale undergrad and worked for IBM after graduation doing M&A, strategy and venture capital. It then permeated my thinking and I began to explore the theme more as I looked around at web properties.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2011

In the stealth phase , prescient angel investors and Venture Capitalists (VCs) start investing in an industry or market segment that others have not yet found. In the case of this bubble, it was social networks, consumer and mobile applications, and the cloud. In May 2011, RenRen—the Facebook of China —had a first day valuation of $7.4

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The Next Web

MARCH 2, 2014

This was reported as being untrue by British Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (BVCA) about a year ago. In the US all the above reasons are relatively minor whereas in China it is clearly the lack of resources that keeps people in the employee status. It’s a reminder that not everything can be controlled.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

COMMUNICATIONS GIANT ARRIS GROUP BUYS ISRAEL’S BIGBAND NETWORKS FOR $158 MLN. is acquiring digital-video networking company BigBand Networks Inc. Israeli navigation tech start-up Waze raised a $30 million investment from Hong Kong’s Li Ka-shing, greater China’s richest man. for about $158.1

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VC Cafe

APRIL 7, 2011

Broadcom Corporation, a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, is acquiring Provigent, an Israeli company which develops system-on-a-chip products that enable wireless system vendors to deliver broadband wireless backhaul systems to network operators. DELL INAUGURATES ISRAELI R&D CENTER, DOUBLES WORKERS.

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