Steve Blank

JANUARY 14, 2013

but became much less so in the last decade when the bottom-line drove industries offshore. Science and National Industrial Policy as we face the realities of China and global competition. universities (See the blog posts on the Secret History of Silicon Valley here , and for a story about one of the University weapons labs here.).

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David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

While fundraising of US VCs has dropped slowly as a percentage of global limited partner allocations over the last decade, non-US startups are receiving a more rapidly increasing percentage of that money. Typically engineering, QA, and support are offshore, while CEO, sales, and marketing are in the US. Source: NVCA, Pitchbook.

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David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

While fundraising of US VCs has dropped slowly as a percentage of global limited partner allocations over the last decade, non-US startups are receiving a more rapidly increasing percentage of that money. Typically engineering, QA, and support are offshore, while CEO, sales, and marketing are in the US. Source: NVCA, Pitchbook.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2011

We have heard that there are significant tax advantages in doing business offshore. Manufacturing offshore could impact intellectual property. However, my intent is to make the entrepreneur recognize and evaluate the challenges and the opportunities, before embarking into the global world.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 25, 2011

I sometimes feel that the Silicon Valley culture and we as technologists more broadly can breed monoculture in our approach to entrepreneurship, problem solving, market analysis and technology solutions. She was talking a lot about how the broader world doesn’t operate how we in Silicon Valley always perceive that it does.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

We have heard that there are tax advantages in doing business offshore. Manufacturing offshore could impact intellectual property. However, my intent is to make the entrepreneur recognize and evaluate the challenges and the opportunities, before embarking into the global world.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Over the last half a century, Silicon Valley has grown into the leading technology and innovation cluster for the United States and the world. For consumer hardware, no startup has to build their own factory as the costs are absorbed by offshore manufacturers. There’s Something Happening Here, What It Is Ain’t Exactly Clear.

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MAY 9, 2017

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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