Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

China is the only nation that declined in national power and eventually recovered it – though it took half a millennium. The rise of the United States as a national power was incredibly steep, however its trend over the last two decades is not heading in the right direction and is about to intersect with the rise of China.

Technology 436

Technology China Russia Silicon Valley 436

Steve Blank

JANUARY 18, 2022

It may be the hedge we need to deter China in the South China Sea. was fighting Al-Qaeda and ISIS, China built new weapons and developed new operational concepts to negate U.S. The sum of these Chinese offset strategies means that in the South China Sea the U.S. Time is not on our side in the South China Sea.

Agile 369

Agile China Artificial Inteligence Taiwan 369

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Acquisition, technology, and logistics. In some of our class sessions you’ve heard about how acquisition in the Department of Defense hasn’t kept up with new threats, adversaries, and new technologies. But Will Roper who runs Air Force acquisition, technology and logistics, gives lie to that assertion. The future is predictable.

Technology 388

Technology China Agile Acquisition 388

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 4, 2014

Are China and India still the “factory” and “outsourced service provider” of the world? China alone has 143 cities which meet this size. A “China + 1″ Strategy. The old paradigm of manufacturing in China and selling in Europe and US is no longer entirely true.

Technical Review 171

Technical Review United Arab Emirates Saudi Arabia China 171

Steve Blank

JANUARY 15, 2024

Despite the clear and present danger of threats from China and elsewhere, there’s no agreement on what types of adversaries we’ll face; how we’ll fight, organize, and train; and what weapons or systems we’ll need for future fights. China fielding naval, space and air assets in unprecedented numbers.

China 182

China Artificial Inteligence Afghanistan Ukraine 182

Venture Chronicles

MARCH 17, 2010

Last week I wrote a post that covered many of the observation I made on my recent trip to mainland China. Given my background in IT, a natural area of interest for me was the build out of IT in China businesses that are not directly aligned with U.S. based secondary markets rather than purchased new in China.

China 38

China Taiwan Technical Review Software Review 38

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

China is tightly integrating its defense establishment with startups, companies, and academia in “military-civilian fusion.” Existing contractors have learned how to master the arcane defense acquisition system and live with the slow decision-making and payment processes. America’s adversaries understand this.

Government 308

Government Artificial Inteligence Silicon Valley North Korea 308

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

China is the only nation that declined in national power and eventually recovered it – though it took half a millennium. The rise of the United States as a national power was incredibly steep, however its trend over the last two decades is not heading in the right direction and is about to intersect with the rise of China.

Technology 228

Technology China Russia Silicon Valley 228

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Class 3: Our guest speaker for session 3 was Anja Manuel , former State Department official, founding partner of Rice, Hadley, Gates and Manuel and author of This Brave New World : India, China and the United States. So, it’s incumbent on us to think about the ramifications of these acquisition decisions. Lessons Learned.

Technology 397

Technology Afghanistan Iraq Vietnam 397

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

China’s Anti-Satellite Demonstration. The next demarcation was 2007, when China launched a missile that blew up one of their own satellites into about 3000 pieces of debris. Everybody that comes into the space force will learn coding and adopt digital engineering standards as our as our standard for acquisition.

Technology 284

Technology United States Iraq Operations 284

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The Department of Defense has to decide which of these technologies and new weapons will be most important across these five: China, Russia, North Korea, Iran and non-nation states. And we need to do all of this with a finite defense budget, most of which is being spent on legacy systems in 88 major defense acquisition programs.

Technology 335

Technology North Korea Silicon Valley Artificial Inteligence 335

Steve Blank

APRIL 8, 2022

And China is outpacing us by adopting the very innovation methods we invented, integrating commercial technology with academic research, and delivering it to the Peoples Liberation Army. Until we have new vendors on the Major Defense Acquisition Program list , all we have in the DoD is innovation theater – not innovation.

Security 217

Security Silicon Valley China Private Equity 217

Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2021

This emerging opportunity reflects the urgency of keeping pace with rivals like China and Russia, who are furiously integrating commercial technologies like AI, quantum computing, and unmanned systems into their armed forces. If confirmed, Brown could accelerate much needed reforms to military acquisition processes.

Artificial Inteligence 326

Artificial Inteligence Marketing Startup Silicon Valley 326

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 24, 2017

Moreover, the company’s performance in global markets (last year the unit sell-through increased 90% in China) could work well in favor of investors. This would be useful for personalization and cross-user acquisition. If the Hero 5 sales surpass expectations continuously, there could be a significant pop in the GoPro stock.

Stock 113

Stock United States China Technical Review 113

Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

China’s growth over the past few decades has been remarkable. Governments blocking acquisitions, the curtailment of company expansion, more scrutiny on overseas operations of U.S. Influenced by the rapid growth of the bike-sharing craze in China, a savvy Uber employee spun out to create Bird. 3/ Crypto Hibernation.

Technical Review 165

Technical Review Venture Capital Russia China 165

Hunter Walker

MARCH 6, 2021

Waze is the $1 billion-plus acquisition that people, well, forgot about despite its size and growth. You should read it all but let me share a specific paragraph here: I took the acquisition as a personal challenge. Looking back, this reminds me of the Western CEO and China. We made acquisitions.

China 135

China Chad Acquisition Cofounder 135

Up and Running

MAY 10, 2021

The mobile-savvy nations are China, Norway, United Kingdom, Japan, and Australia. What is your customer acquisition cost? Of course, this is much easier for the users as the transactions have become super simple and efficient. Take a look at some of the stats. Smart clothes. In the age of the internet, even clothes are getting “smart.”

Artificial Inteligence 150

Artificial Inteligence Developer Development Team Review United Kingdom 150

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

They wanted to employ our entire team post acquisition. He stated: “China is also courting trouble. Recently — in the name of censoring pornography — China blocked access to Google and demanded that computers sold in China come supplied with an Internet nanny filter called Green Dam Youth Escort, starting July 1.

Technical Review 282

Technical Review Canada Green South Carolina 282

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Some of the readings for this week included CNAS “The Next Defense Strategy” series , Sustaining the Future of Indo-Pacific Defense Strategy , Enhancing Forward Defense: The Role of Allies and Partners in the Indo-Pacific , Make China the Explicit Priority in the Next NDS , the Indo-Pacific Strategy Report , Lessons for a Future War.

Technology 217

Technology China Artificial Inteligence Operations 217

thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Why this acquisition? Facebook is no longer the innovative, nimble startup it once was, and needs to acquire to stay relevant – see the post on Google’s recent acquisition of Nest. If this acquisition, cited as the largest venture backed exit ever, doesn’t change that view, I’m not sure what will.

India 107

India North America Ukraine Silicon Valley 107

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. I was only in China for a week so this a cursory view. China Venture Capital. China now has plenty of both.

Silicon Valley 267

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 267

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 9, 2010

First up today was Jacqueline Floro-Pierre with ShopTranslated from China. Jacqueline and her partner Cortney are designing and manufacturing the line out of China and selling in the U.S. First, there are two primary aspects that have to be managed: inventory financing and customer acquisition costs. Google Adwords advertising.

Silicon Valley 117

Silicon Valley Malaysia India China 117

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2014

China, Russia, Brazil, India, Indonesia all meet those criteria. while building their products in China. channel partners and Chinese manufacturers and customer acquisition and activation programs outside their home country. Trip 1 to China to understand manufacturing landscape, potential partners and rough cost of goods.

Global 335

Global Australia Silicon Valley China 335

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 5, 2019

Although it has been difficult for various multinational telecom companies to do acquisition in Iraq, this industry has been enormously growing. China Mobile Ltd. CHL which is currently the leading telecommunication company in China happens to have the highest number of subscribers across China. And GTE Corp.

United Kingdom 113

United Kingdom United States China France 113

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 14, 2015

Heightened competition in PC markets, particularly from HP and Dell, has driven Lenovo’s PC ASPs down 6% from 2Q14, taking with it gross and operating profit that it intended to reinvest into sales and marketing initiatives for its mobile segment outside China and foster enterprise growth in the U.S. and Europe.

Revenue 100

Revenue Technical Review Lean Mobile 100

Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

Team SeaWatch – Maritime Security in the South China Sea. That if we could get teams to rapidly discover the real problems in the field using Lean methods, and only then articulate the requirements to solve them, could defense acquisition programs operate at speed and urgency and deliver timely and needed solutions.

Oakland 301

Oakland Asia Lean Video 301

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

Take China-based AI startup SenseTime, for example. Mergers and acquisitions with tech giants and corporates. Instead of expanding further, this group might be considered by corporates for mergers and acquisitions. With the necessary government support, startups will be able to sell their goods and services more easily.

Venture Capital 196

Venture Capital Asia Artificial Inteligence Later Stage 196

David Teten

MAY 18, 2011

Congratulations to Business Connect China , which is merging with my old company, Evalueserve Circle of Experts , and Tribeca Insights to form a new consolidated expert network, Advantus Global. Integrity Research reports , “At the high water mark, there were over 45 expert networks.

China 138

China Networking Database Global 138

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 7, 2017

There isn’t a perfect metric for how much you should spend on digital marketing, as it really depends if your goal is building a brand (optimize for impressions on your website), closing sales (optimize on conversion rate), keeping cost low (optimize for cost of acquisition) and much more. It’s also important to know what you want to track.

Campaign 145

Campaign San Francisco Technical Review Flash 145

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 18, 2012

The startup will then look outwards in the region to expand into, either organically or via a partnership, joint venture or acquisition. As a startup in Asia, the top 2 markets to start from are China , and India. Singapore ) where if you become No.1 Regional from day one (RD1).

Singapore 178

Singapore Technical Cofounder Product Marketing 178

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Class 3: Our guest speaker for session 3 was Anja Manuel , former State Department official, founding partner of Rice, Hadley, Gates and Manuel and author of This Brave New World : India, China and the United States. So, it’s incumbent on us to think about the ramifications of these acquisition decisions. Lessons Learned.

Technology 133

Technology Afghanistan Iraq Vietnam 133

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The Department of Defense has to decide which of these technologies and new weapons will be most important across these five: China, Russia, North Korea, Iran and non-nation states. And we need to do all of this with a finite defense budget, most of which is being spent on legacy systems in 88 major defense acquisition programs.

Technology 122

Technology North Korea Silicon Valley Artificial Inteligence 122

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

The new National Defense Strategy states that we need to prepare for competition between major powers, calling out China and Russia explicitly as adversaries, (with China appearing to be the first.) Since 9/11 the U.S. military focused on defeating non-nation states ( ISIS , al-Qaeda , et al.)

Employee 322

Employee Agile Artificial Inteligence China 322

ReadWriteStart

MAY 3, 2011

and SEO as two of the most effective and affordable customer acquisition strategies. Groupon China happens to be a customer of Recruiterbox, and found them through organic search. and an affiliate program would also help with customer acquisition. At last week's roundtable, we had five entrepreneurs pitching. Guerrilla p.r.

Acquisition 115

Acquisition SEO San Francisco India 115

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. I was only in China for a week so this a cursory view. China Venture Capital. China now has plenty of both.

Silicon Valley 159

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 159

Seeing Both Sides

MARCH 27, 2014

China''s Alipay reports that they processed $150 billion in mobile transactions in 2013 - nearly 6x the $27 billion PayPal reported (not including the Venmo acquisition, which is bound to accelerate growth in 2014). Why would those services and capabilities be only provided by traditional banks?

Software Review 55

Software Review Software China Technical Review 55

View from Seed

DECEMBER 6, 2018

To analyze what’s become of the OG Unicorns, it’s first worth noting that at the time of the 2013 post about 2/3rds of the 39 on the list had already been realized via IPO or $1B+ acquisitions. Most startups that hit this level did so via IPO or acquisition value.

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IPO Valuation San Francisco Silicon Valley 120