Steve Blank

JANUARY 18, 2022

It may be the hedge we need to deter China in the South China Sea. was fighting Al-Qaeda and ISIS, China built new weapons and developed new operational concepts to negate U.S. The sum of these Chinese offset strategies means that in the South China Sea the U.S. Time is not on our side in the South China Sea.

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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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Venture Chronicles

MARCH 17, 2010

Last week I wrote a post that covered many of the observation I made on my recent trip to mainland China. Given my background in IT, a natural area of interest for me was the build out of IT in China businesses that are not directly aligned with U.S. based secondary markets rather than purchased new in China.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Some of the readings for this week included CNAS “The Next Defense Strategy” series , Sustaining the Future of Indo-Pacific Defense Strategy , Enhancing Forward Defense: The Role of Allies and Partners in the Indo-Pacific , Make China the Explicit Priority in the Next NDS , the Indo-Pacific Strategy Report , Lessons for a Future War.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 9, 2012

Millennials in China, because of Internet restrictions and preferences, use a wider variety of local social networking sites with Webio and Youku the most popular. Weekly Facebook use is incredibly high especially in Southeast Asia (Singapore, Philippines and Indonesia rated 93-percent) as compared to other social networks.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 28, 2015

MasterCard’s Index – which covers Australia, New Zealand, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam, India, Bangladesh, and Myanmar – calculates an aggregate score for each country based on three components: basic money management, financial planning and investment.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 10, 2012

Offers on car rentals with Hertz , Exclusive deals on digital subscriptions of The Economist in Asia Pacific , and. Discounts on meeting and banquet room rentals at the Sheraton Taipei Hotel.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 30, 2013

Evernote Business then came to Asia through Korea and the launch of Yinxiang Biji Business in China earlier this month, but the company has announced that Evernote Business will now be made available in more markets across APAC including Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, and more.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 19, 2015

China, now the world’s largest economy in purchasing-power-parity terms, is sitting on $15 trillion in bank deposits, growing at $2 trillion annually. For years I’ve studied the cultures in 10 Asian countries: China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Malaysia, Myanmar (formerly Burma), the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 15, 2012

The bank aims to launch localized social enterprise banking packages in its other key markets of China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia and Taiwan in 2013.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Through its support of Chinese brands and commitment to building a better life for its users, JD.com has become China’s largest retailer both on and offline. During the festival this year, customers from countries such as Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, the United States, Canada and Australia ordered 4.5

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

JUNE 6, 2014

Nuvar sources from Europe (France, Germany, and Italy), Asia (China, Taiwan, and Malaysia) and North America (Mexico and Canada). Nuvar’s in-house engineering assists its customers with product development and design. Through a global network of manufacturing suppliers, Nuvar sources component part manufacturing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 6, 2012

Coming Soon: other international editions of The Lean Startup Germany - Muenchner (March 2012) France – Pearson (March 2012) Spain - Planeta / Gestion 2000 imprint (February 2012) Brazil - Leya / Lua de Papel imprint (first half of 2012) Japan – Nikkei BP (Spring 2012) Taiwan - Flaneur Co.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 27, 2016

In China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Spain and Taiwan, exporting SMEs are roughly twice as likely to report such rapid growth compared to their non-exporting counterparts, while exporting SMEs in Brazil, Colombia and India are between 1.1-1.3 times more likely to achieve rapid growth.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 25, 2022

The last year has seen a ton written about the semiconductor industry: chip shortages, the CHIPS Act , our dependence on Taiwan and TSMC , China, etc. TSMC in Taiwan is the leader in logic, Samsung is second. Today there are only two – Samsung in Korea and TSMC in Taiwan. But they don’t design chips. Today, both the U.S.

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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. Lessons Learned.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 29, 2016

Throughout the year, Blake travels to China, Taiwan and Mexico to meet with manufacturers and negotiate pricing and development of new and innovative office and school furniture products. He studies and analyzes the latest trends in the industry by traveling around the nation and regularly attending trade shows.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Having said that you can also find the most narrow-minded people from the U.S – people who talk about wanting to do business in Russia or China without ever visiting these countries. With the launch of the book in China, we’ve released 41 video interviews with top business leaders from around the world.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2011

Both China and Taiwan now provide a 5 year, zero-tax holiday, for semiconductor manufacturers, followed by 5 years at rates as low as 5%. That’s 42,400 factories, including 15 semiconductor plants, and 12 million lost jobs. We now produce only 14% of the world’s supply of semiconductors, and even less of other things.

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Venture Chronicles

MARCH 12, 2010

I just spent a week and a half in southern China visiting a range of manufacturing facilities and meeting with senior executives, and the learnings were significant, some of which I want to share with you today. I want to take a moment to explain how worker compensation works in China. and/or pressure on financial results for U.S.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2009

That same year China fell to the communists under Mao Zedong, and the Nationalist government retreated to Taiwan. As tensions rose, there was a growing fear that the Soviets could invade and occupy all of Western Europe. In 1949, the Soviets exploded their first nuclear weapon and ended the U.S monopoly on atomic weaponry.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 25, 2019

China is largely considered the most attractive market. China is largely considered the most attractive market. It is believed that by 2030, China will be the globe’s largest economy. If you take a close look, you will instantly understand that China has considerably emerged, growing three times as fast as the United States.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 17, 2020

Eating – when I was in Taiwan and Vietnam over the summer, I noticed several people livestreaming their meals (especially hot pot!). Live e-commerce – livestreaming e-commerce sales are already very popular in China, and one could imagine a QVC for the Gen Z generation. Patreon has seen a surge in registrations.

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View from Seed

APRIL 20, 2022

China also emerged from decades of socialist isolation to engage with the rest of the world, employing a market based “socialism” with Chinese characteristics. Great power conflict is back… between Western democracies and autocratic regimes like Russia, between the rising superpower of China and the reigning superpower of the US.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 25, 2011

Both Taiwan and Kenya have made agreements to exchange water technology and data revolving with Israel. in many developed countries, freshwater costs over 10% of total GDP, this includes Germany, China, Denmark, and Brazil. Freshwater is expensive. Renewable energy will not ‘cross the chasm’ until it reaches grid parity.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 11, 2022

employ its cyber capabilities to provide the populace of China with unrestricted Internet access to bolster civil society against CCP crackdowns, in order to pressure the PRC, spread American liberal values, and uphold U.S. Original Problem Statement: China’s cryptocurrency ban presents the U.S. Team Aurora. Team ShortCircuit.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

There are a number of specific areas where these blurred lines led to subpar policies that undermined America’s technological competitiveness and left the country weaker against adversaries like Russia and China. The United States is dependent on two companies, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Today, none are made there.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Through its subsidiaries in neighbouring Asian nations or directly, the biggest impact is potentially in China, the world’s largest producer of solar panels. During his campaign, Trump labelled both China and Japan as “currency manipulators” and threatened a trade war over what he called their unfair trading practices.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

None of these companies own a chip manufacturing plant (a fab) so they all use a foundry (an independent company that makes chips for others) like TSMC in Taiwan (or SMIC in China for for its defense related silicon.). A Sample of AI GPU, FPGA and ASIC AI Chips and Where They’re Made.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Class 2 focused on China, the U.S.’s China is using all elements of national power: diplomacy (soft power, alliances, coercion), information/ intelligence, its military might and economic strength ( Belt and Road Initiative ) as well as exploiting Western finance and technology. China’s AI Strategy.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 3, 2020

And I think it would be a mistake for us to go back, given how much progress we’ve made on China in general and technological competition. The first I associate with the return to the Obama era approach, which would focus on cooperation with China. China competition the last three years.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

iPhone 5 may come to China soon. A regulatory Web site shows a device that looks similar to the iPhone 5 has received approval for a “network license” in China. Chinese mobile carrier China Telecom Corp. Microsoft has cut orders to its supply chain by half, according to Taiwan’s Digitimes.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2020

The United States just did this to China by limiting Huawei’s ability to outsource its in-house chip designs for manufacture by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), a Taiwanese chip foundry. So if the United State lost TSMC in China, one new American plant would not make up the difference in capacity. Here’s why.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

So you're starting to see that, and you realize one healthcare system or two healthcare systems may be able to respond to a crisis successfully, meaning maybe South Korea and China, but once you have 60 countries that have cases, the odds that at least one of them fails in the containment is huge. What did China do? What did Taiwan do?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 29, 2020

Jeremy Howard : I mean, just the data like Taiwan, Hong Kong, Mongolia, right next to China, a lot of trade, a lot of social back and forth, Chinese New Year, yet they're in double figures, numbers of deaths. There's some backstory to that, to the masks in China. Eric Ries : What kind of evidence were you looking at?

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