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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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

In turn, this leads to the development of a thriving startup ecosystem which paves the way for technology and innovation. 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.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

6/ Venture Capital In Expansion Phase. Technology is, like water, flowing and seeping into nearly every sector and eventually into most of the global economy. Public investors, cross-over investors, and even traditional private equity firms have taken notice, further blurring the lines of what constitutes true venture capital.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Are you thinking about setting up a WFOE in China? Starting a business venture, especially in China, can be pretty tedious and confusing. Inaugurating A Business In China – A Step-By-Step Guide . Manufacturing WFOE (you’ll be allowed to manufacture your products in China). But, what’s next?

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

China’s Age of Malaise [Evan Osnos/New Yorker] – A loooong read but essential stuff if you are interested in China from an sort of view (cultural, economic, geopolitical, startup). When I return to China these days, the feeling of ineluctable ascent has waned.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

It was only a year ago that many in the Venture Capital industry were predicting that “winter was coming” and to be fair the author of this post was chief amongst them. While this it total FDI as opposed to just venture, it should give you an indication of the international trend. But it’s not just China and Singapore.

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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. The Rise of Chinese Venture Capital.

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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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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 17, 2012

Sometimes, this also relates to capital requirements of what the team needs. For web development, usually it's pretty much the same across the board, but if you're making jewelry in China, it's going to be hard to get much done with a 500k seed round.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 1, 2020

1955 Capital is a firm with an admittedly straightforward mission: They aim to invest in all the most disruptive technologies from the developed world, all in an effort to solve the planet’s greatest challenges at the same exact time. All of these are lofty goals for the venture capital firm, to be sure.

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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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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

For more information, visit atxstartupcrawl.com SXSW Pitch (formerly SXSW Accelerator) SXSW Pitch is the official SXSW platform to allow early stage technology startups to pitch their product and/or services to industry technology experts, high profiled media personnel, and Venture Capitalists / Angel Investors. don’t worry ?—?we’ve

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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. This never existed a decade ago.

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David Teten

JULY 29, 2011

A bit belatedly (due to a backlog of blog postings), I wanted to announce ff Venture Capital ‘s summer intern class. Franklin Bi became passionate about venture capital and entrepreneurship after he spent a summer in Silicon Valley, working on an information services startup focused on innovation management.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 28, 2010

6) The most efficient fuel for this IPO engine is venture capital. government dataset compiled by the U.S. .” “… it is highly unlikely that a company that does not take venture capital ends up going public. … Four of the twenty companies with the largest market capitalization in the U.S.—Microsft,

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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. All the usual caveats apply. Entrepreneurship in Beijing.

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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. The technology insights and expertise of Stanford Engineering. Silicon Valley’s deep commercial technology ecosystem. Conference.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 29, 2023

According to Jungle Ventures, Southeast Asia’s technology startups had a combined valuation of $340 billion in 2020. Venture capital (VC) investment is the primary funding source for regional startups. However, the prospect of new startups is more focused on emerging technologies.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Venture Capital is a tricky industry. One such theme was “water conservation” and we morphed it into a broader theme of agriculture technology or “ag tech” for short. Apeel Technologies. When Fred Wilson funded Twitter I guarantee you it wasn’t obvious that it was a billion dollar idea.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2021

The move to remote work forced quick adoption of cloud technology and tools that were once having difficulties selling to large corporates, saw explosive growth – from Zoom to Hopin, new unicorns were born in record time. I also believe that there was a fundamental change in consumer behaviour.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

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. As the venture capital business has come roaring back in the last 5 years, startups are awash in available capital.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

The past year saw startups on the rise, an increase in venture capital funding (both in real dollars and numbers of companies funded), a resurgence of IPOs, and the rise of David against Goliath, as best represented by Groupon’s spurning of a $6 billion offer from Google. Investors will be bullish on startups.

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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. All the usual caveats apply. Entrepreneurship in Beijing.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

Technology is not typically the first on the agenda. This is down to an intense focus on digitalisation that stems from the nation’s enormous banking industry, facilitating an ecosystem ripe for technological modernisation. Photo by Chait Goli from Pexels. Switzerland has a fantastic infrastructure that drives this new tech.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly. billion (Upfront Ventures was an early Overture backer).

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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. Enhance the Science and Technology Capacity of the U.S. China Free Trade Agreement. Cultivate the Formation of Viable New Businesses. Negotiate a U.S.-China

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

I overviewed demographic and economic trends globally and outlined the opportunity for technology companies to access growth in the emerging markets. Economics Emerging Markets Entrepreneurship M&A Mobile emerging markets Facebook india innovation mobile Venture Capital whatsapp' You can view the full presentation here.

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Gust

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

But that’s where it gets interesting, because whether or not you could replicate Gust’s platform… It’s irrelevant: despite the award-winning platform and the technology under the hood, Gust’s primary advantage is NOT in our engineering, surprising though that may seem.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Venture capital on pace for biggest year since dot-com era - [link]. Some very useful info here – The China Startup Report - [link]. Angry Birds to open retail stores in China - [link]. The full story in the Other section below. crowdSPRING’s Small Business Spotlight of the Week: Juicy Bits – [link].

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 9, 2010

First up today was Jacqueline Floro-Pierre with ShopTranslated from China. Jacqueline and her partner Cortney are designing and manufacturing the line out of China and selling in the U.S. Malaysia, India, China, Italy, Argentina, wherever), you are better off raising money locally. You can listen to the rest in the recording.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Over the past decade, he has launched multiple businesses, including three technology companies. our product is manufactured in Shenzhen, China … along with most of the high-tech electronics in the world, so we had to locate a factory, we had to find the right partner to build this product and work with us ….

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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. Contrasting China via their Zhi-Xing (? ?, 4:30PM Hilton?—?Salon March 13, 2018 3:30PM?—?4:30PM

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Techventure , one of Asia’s topmost events for the venture capital community to engage with the latest technology entrepreneurs, is back. which celebrates the vibrant developments taking place in Asia that have helped Asian corporations take the lead and capitalize successfully in many areas of technology.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

We are so proud to be a part of the entrepreneurial and technology community in Chicago where we are based. The Thin Skin of the Venture Capital Market - crowdspring.co/1xaoN3x. Notes From Behind the Firewall: The State of Web Design in China | Tuts+ Web Design – crowdspring.co/1yCnrPZ. 10L75tk.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2016

Why could blockchain be a foundational technology that yields many great companies? Why AI is an important technology and investment area. And there was a great discussion about generational change at Venture Capital firms handled so well by Benchmark & Sequoia and how Fred is thinking about it. But I ask you.

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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”. So universities have realized that for many students, promising a career in technology and entrepreneurship is key to recruiting high potential students. Everyone wanted to work in finance.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2011

A tech bubble is the rapid inflation in the valuation of public and private technology companies that exceeds their fundamental value by a large margin. Hiring technology talent in Silicon Valley is getting difficult, and the time it takes to drive across Palo Alto has tripled—all signs of the impending apocalypse. The Who 1971.

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