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Born Global or Die Local – Building a Regional Startup Playbook

Steve Blank

The trap most of them fell into (common almost everywhere): they were reading the blog posts and advice of Silicon Valley-based companies and believing that it uniformly applied to them. But other critical hypotheses such as activities, resources, partners, channels needed testing offshore. It doesn’t. Born Global or Die Local.

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The Rise of Chinese Venture Capital – (Part 3 of 5)

Steve Blank

Most of the early deals were done by offshore venture funds – with their fund registered in countries outside China and using dollars. In the past foreign funds who wanted to invest in China had to set up funds using dollars with complicated offshore structures with exits through offshore listings. Lessons Learned.

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The Rise of Chinese Venture Capital – (Part 3 of 5)

Steve Blank

Most of the early deals were done by offshore venture funds – with their fund registered in countries outside China and using dollars. In the past foreign funds who wanted to invest in China had to set up funds using dollars with complicated offshore structures with exits through offshore listings. Lessons Learned.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

Especially if you aren’t from around Silicon Valley. pretty much sums everything up well, but – let’s be honest here – if you live outside Silicon Valley, you are going to be at odds, because the rest of the world hasn’t yet caught up with this tech start-up thing.

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When It’s Darkest Men See the Stars

Steve Blank

Over the last half a century, Silicon Valley has grown into the leading technology and innovation cluster for the United States and the world. Today open source software has slashed the cost of software development from millions of dollars to thousands. There’s Something Happening Here, What It Is Ain’t Exactly Clear.

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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

I’ve seen the Valley grow from Sunnyvale to Santa Clara to today where it stretches from San Jose to South of Market in San Francisco. I’ve watched the Valley go from Microwave Valley – to Defense Valley – to Silicon Valley to Internet Valley. So how did this happen? Where is it going?

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