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ESADE Business School Commencement Speech

Steve Blank

Just look at the disruptive challenges that businesses face today– globalization, China as a manufacturer, China as a consumer, the Internet, and a steady stream of new startups. Ask Sony about Samsung, ask any retailer about Amazon, any car company about Tesla, and any newspaper company about the web.

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The Evolution of Tech Wars: Past, Present, and Future

VC Cafe

The war shaped the way users interacted with the web. Cloud Wars: As businesses increasingly adopt cloud services, the battle between cloud providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) intensifies. Space Race 2.0:

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Zhongguancun in Beijing – China’s Silicon Valley (Part 4 of 5)

Steve Blank

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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The App is Dead (OK Not Really, But The Browser Is Back)

www.readwriteweb.com

Real-Time Web. Real-Time Web. If it can be done on the Web, build it for the Web; if it can’t, build an app." "If it can be done on the Web, build it for the Web; if it can’t, build an app." Towards the end of 2010, Wired magazine even declared that "the Web is dead." ReadWriteWeb. Key Trends.

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Eastern European Champions & the 4 V’s of Big Data

Cracking the Code

in India and China) The region has an exceptional talent pool: Eastern Europe was the first country to send a man into space in 1961 and has a very strong network of universities. mobile phone per person for the Top 4 EE countries (vs. in GE, 1.3 in Brazil and 0.8

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Zhongguancun in Beijing – China’s Silicon Valley (Part 4 of 5)

Steve Blank

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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Out of the Crisis #13: Alpha Lee on remembering the 2003 SARS epidemic and his opensource COVID-19 Moonshot

Startup Lessons Learned

They took an open source approach, inviting thousands of collaborators from around the world to contribute potential solutions. None of this would have been possible without the open source contributions of thousands of scientists around the world. We are working on a open-source drug discovery project against COVID-19.