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. My post about Japan will follow. In these series of 5 posts, I thought I’d share what I learned in China. All the usual caveats apply. I was only in China for a week so this a cursory view.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 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. All the usual caveats apply. I was only in China for a week so this a cursory view.

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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. My post about Japan will follow. In these series of 5 posts, I thought I’d share what I learned in China. All the usual caveats apply. I was only in China for a week so this a cursory view.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 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. All the usual caveats apply. I was only in China for a week so this a cursory view.

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2019

The founders’ first idea was to use the drone for observing critical disasters, like the reactor meltdowns in Fukushima, Japan. They used the Navigator and its three worksheets to guide their process. Worksheet 1: Generate your market opportunity set.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Bob, among other things ran the fundraising for us in Asia and worked with an outside firm that had great connections in Japan to drag us around Tokyo and get the deal closed. I then congratulated the outside firm that Bob had used in Japan. And still does. As in raising $10Million dollars kind of closed.

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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. All the usual caveats apply. I was only in China for a week so this a cursory view.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2011

Entrepreneurs from Japan, France and now Russia believed they could help startups in their country if the Four Steps to the Epiphany was available in their native tongue. What’s pretty remarkable is these translations are not from a commercial publisher, but rather a labor of entrepreneurial love.

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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. All the usual caveats apply. I was only in China for a week so this a cursory view.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 24, 2013

Japan overcame these barriers by using their import quotas to ship high-end, high-margin luxury cars, establishing manufacturing plants in the U.S. In 1981 unable to compete with the quality and price of Japanese cars, the domestic car companies convinced the U.S. government to restrict the import of “foreign” cars. The result?

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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. All the usual caveats apply. I was only in China for a week so this a cursory view.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 28, 2010

Three of these balloons were launched in July 1958 from an aircraft carrier off the east coast of Japan (in those months the jet stream at the altitude went west to east.) These balloons would carry a new reconnaissance camera, built by the Boston University Physical Research Lab. President Eisenhower cancelled all the balloon overflights.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 24, 2013

Japan overcame these barriers by using their import quotas to ship high-end, high-margin luxury cars, establishing manufacturing plants in the U.S. In 1981 unable to compete with the quality and price of Japanese cars, the domestic car companies convinced the U.S. government to restrict the import of “foreign” cars. The result?

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2023

Japan, Italy, and the Soviet Union) made strategic decisions about what types of weapons to build (tanks, airplanes, ships, submarines, artillery, rockets), what was the right mix (aircraft carriers, fighter planes, bombers, light/ medium/ heavy tanks, etc.) now at war with Germany and Japan, the race to build the bomb was on.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 29, 2016

I was … flying to Macau and flying up to Japan to … try and find the coolest places. ” “Do you know people in London?” ” . So before it actually became a concept as an industry, I was becoming this international concierge.

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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. All the usual caveats apply. I was only in China for a week so this a cursory view.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 14, 2013

Government funding of research started in World War II driven by the needs of the military for weapon systems to defeat Germany and Japan. There they would be tasked to develop military weapons systems and solve military problems to defeat Germany and Japan. The weapons were then manufactured in volume by U.S. corporations.).

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 11, 2023

code breaking would grow to 20,000 people working on breaking the codes of Germany, Japan and the Soviet Union. By the end of WWII, with the U.S. now fighting Germany, and the Soviet Union looming as a potential adversary U.S.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2009

Example of Early Warning Radar Coverage – Japan in WWII SAC needed intelligence to understand the components of the PVO Strany air defense system in order to shut them down and make them ineffective so our bombers with their nuclear payloads could reach their targets.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 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. All the usual caveats apply.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 3, 2009

My co-founder, head of business development and I were in Japan raising money. I used it in all presentations and gave it at industry conferences. Are those my initials on the slide? Fast forward nine months.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 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. All the usual caveats apply.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

China, Europe and Japan continue to age, which in turn threatens to overwhelm healthcare systems. There should be as sustained commitment to at least several new FDA approved screening/diagnostic apps every year for Watch and iPhone from Apple. The Future.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2009

When I ran Rocket Science our corporate partners were in Japan (Sega), Germany (Bertelsmann) and Italy (Mondadori) and some travel was unavoidable. As an executive it was easy to think I had to get on a plane for every deal. But after I had kids I definitely thought long and hard before I would jump on a plane. Document every step.

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