Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

As there was no venture capital, these early startups were funded by early sales to weapon systems prime contractors and subcontractors. Within a decade, the rise of venture capital in Silicon Valley enabled startups to find commercial customers rather than military ones. America’s adversaries understand this.

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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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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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

After the celebratory champagne has been drunk and the confetti floats to the ground it’s helpful to put the CHIPS Act in context and understand the work that government and private capital have left to do. Today the United States is in great power competition with China. versus China. National Industrial Policy – U.S.

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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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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. 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. or Euro-centric phenomenon.

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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 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

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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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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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? The plan must also take into account that this crisis has exposed how vulnerable companies are to a single source of supply. are about to face a moral dilemma.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 14, 2021

It called out China as a peer competitor to America, pursuing its goal of global dominance. Unfortunately, China has succeeded – many of our most exquisite systems on sea, in space or in other places are at risk. Venture capital and startups have institutionalized disruptive innovation. In the U.S.

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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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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

Existing companies are starting to feel the pressures of new technologies and the massive wave of new entrants fueled by the explosion of investment from a recent form of financing – venture capital. Venture capital firms, as we know them only date back to the 1970s.)

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 14, 2013

government’s role in setting investment policy, venture capital has set the direction for what new industries attract capital. Science and National Industrial Policy as we face the realities of China and global competition. the undisputed lead in a technology and innovation driven economy – until the rise of 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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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

China is executing a plan to win with new technologies through its strategy of Military-Civil Fusion—they’ve torn down the barriers between Chinese companies and academia and its military. venture capital was funding startups led by iconoclasts, troublemakers and dissidents. There were no Soviet Steve Jobs or Bill Gates.

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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. Integrate and incent the Venture Capital/Private Equity ecosystem to invest at scale.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

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 …. Will : Yes, and that was my first brutal intro into the difficulties of raising venture capital where I lived. .

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2011

In December 2010, Youku—the YouTube of China —went public, with a valuation of $4.4 In May 2011, RenRen—the Facebook of China —had a first day valuation of $7.4 Filed under: Venture Capital. Some precursors to the bubble happened when Chinese Internet companies listed on United States stock exchanges. billion (on $76.5

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

The opportunity is so large that there are hundreds of AI accelerator startups designing their own chips, funded by 10’s of billions of venture capital and private equity. A Sample of AI GPU, FPGA and ASIC AI Chips and Where They’re Made.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2022

In 2021 venture capital funds invested over $2 billion in 90+ Quantum technology companies. China transmitted entangled photons (at one pair of entangled particles per second) over 1,200 km in a satellite link, using the Micius satellite. Over a $1 billion of it going to Quantum computing companies.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 23, 2016

For the first 75 years of the 20 th century, when capital for new ventures was scarce, the smartest engineering talent went to corporate R&D labs. For the first 75 years of the 20 th century, when capital for new ventures was scarce, the smartest engineering talent went to corporate R&D labs.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

of the founders surveyed were born in China, 3.8% of total entrepreneurs born in China and India is not even close to what entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley looks like. I don’t know what number of entrepreneurs in SV are from China or from Chinese parents and likewise for Indians. In the country of birth it says 0.6%

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2011

They are currently built in China.). Filed under: Family/Career , Secret History of Silicon Valley , Venture Capital. Major power generating turbines will be attacked the same way Stuxnet worked – over and under-speeding the turbines and rapidly cycling the switching systems until they burn out.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2009

Reply Calvin Chin , on April 4, 2009 at 2:43 am Said: Mahmoud, Here’s a second on the electronic version, but per Steve’s tip, I just bought it from Cafe Press and it only cost $6 to send it to me here in China. Hope it gets here quick and in one piece!

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Steve Blank

JULY 29, 2016

Today, China can do this in the Pacific and to a limited extent, Iran has this capability in the Persian Gulf. How nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines changed the nature of strategic deterrence, and how the DF-21/26 and artificial islands in the South China sea changed decades of assumptions. And not just one.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

In 1949, with the detection of the first Soviet nuclear weapons test, the Iron Curtain falling across Europe and the fall of China to the Communists, Cold War paranoia drove the U.S. doing postdoctoral internships, supervised by faculty members or hired staff (many from Fred Terman’s WWII Electronic Warfare lab.)

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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. These posts cover two distinct periods – the first, the rise of “ Microwave Valley ” chronicles the decade of 1946-1956 as Stanford University became the hub of military/industry contracting in the Bay Area.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2009

with the auto bailout.

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