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. This post is about the how the Chinese government engineered technology clusters. Torch was the rare government program that was run like a startup – iterating and pivoting as it learned and discovered.
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. This post is about the how the Chinese government engineered technology clusters. Torch was the rare government program that was run like a startup – iterating and pivoting as it learned and discovered.
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VC Cafe
JUNE 1, 2011
is acquiring privately-held Taiyo Pharmaceutical Industry, Japan’s third largest generic pharmaceutical company for $460 million. Taiyo has one of the most comprehensive generic product portfolios in the Japanese market and has a strong presence in all major distribution channels in Japan. Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.
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. 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. All the usual caveats apply.
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. 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. All the usual caveats apply.
ReadWriteStart
MAY 9, 2013
In a 2007 report, the Council on Competitiveness quoted a USA Today survey revealing that, “ of venture-backed software startups created since 1999, nearly 40% have employees outside the United States.”. In Japan, meanwhile, discount pricing is often seen as a sign of an inferior product. This is no longer the case.
The Entrepreneurial Mind
MARCH 31, 2010
1929 and 2007 and represents the slowest growth of the measured American standard of living over any two-decade interval recorded since the. We may be faced with our own lost decades, just like Japan faced in the 1990s and beyond. We cannot burden them by expecting them to pay for an ever expanding government with higher tax rates.
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