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

Steve Blank

Chinese Internet companies live in a large closed, self-contained ecosystem with 564 million web users with 420 million having mobile web access. Several VC’s mentioned that there’s a funding gap for seed stage investments. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital.

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

Steve Blank

Chinese Internet companies live in a large closed, self-contained ecosystem with 564 million web users with 420 million having mobile web access. Several VC’s mentioned that there’s a funding gap for seed stage investments. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital.

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Startup Lessons Learned

Seed-stage investors are learning the metrics of traction, and are getting better at identifying those companies that are really achieving validated learning about customers. As you and I have chatted about, a Zynga developed game versus an EA developed game is quite different. Though technology tools and Web 2.0

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60 Second Interview with TokBox’s CEO on Pivoting Your Startup Business Model

VC Cafe

We saw this business growing and built OpenTok in response to partner demand and as an opportunity to create and own this “multi-way video chat across the Web&# category. Pivoting is not just reserved for seed-stage companies. VC Cafe: Where there differences in the execution of the 1st and 2nd strategy?

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Amazon Web Services. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Web Tools: Hereâ??s We have an iOS SDK as well, for web-web, mobile-mobile, web-mobile video chat and video messaging. We have an iOS SDK as well, for web-web, mobile-mobile, web-mobile video chat and video messaging.

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