Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2013

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.

Venture Capital 271

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Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2013

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.

Venture Capital 163

Venture Capital China Offshore SBIR 163

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2014

But other critical hypotheses such as activities, resources, partners, channels needed testing offshore. Further refinement of Product/Market fit could be done locally by using Value Proposition Design. For example, many of the Australian sports tech business models shared common elements. while building their products in China.

Global 335

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Steve Blank

JULY 28, 2016

These tours are scheduled when the carriers are offshore training, not when they are deployed on missions. Targeting key influencers (who they call Distinguished Visitors ,) the Navy hosts 900/year out to carriers off the West Coast and 500/year to carriers on the East Coast.

Silicon Valley 120

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Steve Blank

JULY 29, 2016

For example, we can cruise offshore of potential adversaries (Iraq and Syria) who can’t get to our carriers. This allowed the attack aircraft to loiter longer over targets or extend their reach over enemy territory.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 14, 2013

but became much less so in the last decade when the bottom-line drove industries offshore. This approach was successful when U.S. industry was aligned with manufacturing in the U.S., In lieu of the U.S. government’s role in setting investment policy, venture capital has set the direction for what new industries attract capital.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

It should address not only the creation of new jobs, but also the continued hemorrhaging of jobs and entire strategic industries offshore. First, an entrepreneurship initiative needs to be an integral part of both a coherent economic policy and a national innovation policy – one that creates jobs for Main Street versus Wall Street.

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