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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

It helped that in the nuclear winter that followed the crash, 2001 – 2004, startups and VCs were extremely risk averse and amenable to new ideas that reduced risk. And government agencies find themselves being disrupted by adversaries unencumbered by legacy systems, policies and history. The Lean Startup isn’t dead.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 21, Part 1: Kathy Ku and Orin Herskowitz

Steve Blank

She received the AUTM 2001 Bayh-Dole Award for her efforts in university licensing, and is currently a member of the NIH Advisory Committee to the Deputy Director of Intramural Research. Kathy : … The law at the time said the government (not the university) owned these patents. In the 20th century) the U.S. Is that correct?

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

Steve Blank

China has essentially closed its internal search, media and social network software market to foreign companies who wouldn’t play with the government rules on the Great Firewall. Car sales in China went from 1 million in 2001 to 14 million in 2011. 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

China has essentially closed its internal search, media and social network software market to foreign companies who wouldn’t play with the government rules on the Great Firewall. Car sales in China went from 1 million in 2001 to 14 million in 2011. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital.