Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2011

In 2010 it got worse with an Act in parliament about the Monitoring of Foreigners’ Corporate Acquisitions. Finland itself has significant engineering talent, and is also attracting entrepreneurs from Russia and the former USSR. Instead the business press dumped on the founders for “selling out.”

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

It’s worth considering the reasons why nations decline — they lose allies, a decline in economic power (the UK in the 20th Century); they lose interest in global affairs (China in the 15th Century); internal/civil conflicts (Russia in the 20th Century.) neglected strategic threats from China and a rearmed Russia.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

Governments blocking acquisitions, the curtailment of company expansion, more scrutiny on overseas operations of U.S. A concept discussed during that time was “ glasnost ,” a part of the new Russia’s restructuring to provide more openness and transparency in information. That will take a long time to settle.

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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.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Some of the readings for this week included: CRS Report on Space Force , Summary of the Defense Space Strategy , Space Force’s Capstone Doctrine “Space Power” , State of the Space Industrial Base 2020 , Space as a Warfighting Domain , Russia gears up for electronic warfare in space , Chief of Space Operations Planning Guidance.

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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.

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Babbling VC

FEBRUARY 17, 2013

-Sales is focussed on Europe, specifically the DACH region, UK, France, Sweden and Russia. . 3 to 5 years sales experience, ideally in the online space with a focus on new customer acquisition. Must be able to do cold acquisition of new customers as well as develop new market segments independently. . Your qualifications: .

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 15, 2012

My goal is to get them excited about creating an amazing digital acquisition strategy that delivers noteworthy experiences through their owned digital platforms, and which ultimately delivers bigger profits (usually offline, but online as well). " Let's look at the actual data by comparing USA and Russia. So on and so forth.

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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.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2014

China, Russia, Brazil, India, Indonesia all meet those criteria. channel partners and Chinese manufacturers and customer acquisition and activation programs outside their home country. to understand distribution channel landscape, potential partners and rough cost of customer acquisition. Outside the U.S. Trip 2 to the U.S.

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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.)

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

So that’s the big one, obviously, with the geopolitical tensions, not just Russia and Ukraine. The vast majority of their customer acquisition is word of mouth. When you put those two things together, you get high-quality customers, high LTV, and acquisition at super low costs. I’m trying to be optimistic. David Zhang.

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 25, 2014

And a lot more of it comes from massive commodities-driven wealth in places like Russia, Africa, South America, and the Middle East. Some of this cash comes from expansionistic Monetary Policies pursued by the Federal Reserve and other Central Banks. And their options for doing so are far more limited than one might think.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 18, 2021

Napoleon failed in Russia because his supply chains failed during the frigid Russian winter. The result was a new genre of games, focusing on economics and resource acquisition, with multiple paths to victory. You can’t win a war if you can’t establish and maintain your supply lines.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 24, 2020

We found a range of providers, mainly in Russia, that were as low as $100/day to eliminate your competitors from the ad auction. Any marketing strateg y that relies heavily on PPC—or any single channel—for acquisition is at risk. When the fraud hit, that fell to just a few hundred pounds of revenue a day and a ton of wasted spend.

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VC Cafe

JULY 25, 2017

Telegram (Russia, boasted 100 million monthly active users world wide in Feb 2016) can now send disappearing messages just like Snapchat, WeChat (762 million monthly active users in China in June 2016), Line (218 million monthly users in June 2016, two-thirds of whom are from Japan) and Kakaotalk (49 million active users worldwide as of March 2017).

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 15, 2020

My grandparents were forced from Russia. The customer acquisition costs are going down. If you can reduce your cost per customer acquisition, if you can connect in a way that expands your email database, adds more customers and allows you to connect in new ways, that's setting a platform for the future for you.

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paulgraham.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Pretty much every successful startup will get acquisition offers too. Most product acquisitions have some component of fear. And growth explains why successful startups almost invariably get acquisition offers. The latter type is sometimes called an HR acquisition.

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Cracking the Code

JULY 5, 2016

Learning from the success of this initiative, I introduced the BlaBlaCar team to companies in Poland and Russia, which have also been very successful acqui-hires. “I was empowered to continue doing what I had been doing, but with a much larger budget and support from a team that shared my same passion.“ Thus it is not only about the money.”

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 8, 2019

To existing competitors or to existing requirements and acquisition systems they look like minimum viable products – barely finished, iterative and incremental prototypes. Ironically rapid Horizon 3 disruption is most often used not by the market leaders but by the challengers/new entrants (startups, ISIS , China, Russia, etc.).

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www.thestartup.eu

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Developers are in Argentina, Ukraine and Russia. Let’s break down their costs: Logo design: a simple contest on 99designs with a $300 prize. 114 submissions and a professional logo in less than a week. Development: using DjangoPeople and Elance a very international team was born. Total cost: $5000. Two months of work and $2500.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

If you are a regular reader of this blog you know how deeply fond I am of the Acquisition, Behavior, Outcomes framework. Now it's time for acquisition. Here's my process for doing that… ~ Visit www.google.com (or Baidu in China, Yandex in Russia etc). Now, I better understand visitor acquisition.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2009

Now we have ditched the cold war triad in the 21st century since the Soviet Union became Russia again and discovered its own style of capitalism.) (That was our strategic posture from the ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s, the ’80s, and I think maybe even through the ’90s.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

We’ve started to adjust our acquisition approach. And the departments have put out some very useful new guidance on how to approach software acquisition in a very different way than hardware acquisition. It’s a very important area.

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VC Cafe

JULY 2, 2012

This month’s trend continues to be acquisitions of Israeli firms by large US corporates. Facebook’s acquisition of Face.com will enable the social network to embed face recognition software into its photo app. This is Facebook’s second acquisition in Israel, following the acquisition of Snaptu for $70m in March 2011.

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Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2022

At the onset of the war in Ukraine, Russia launched a cyber-attack on Viasat’s KA-SAT satellite, which supplies Internet across Europe, including to Ukraine. Reorganize DoD Acquisition and Sustainment to create and buy from new 21st century arsenals – new shipyards, drone manufacturers, etc. government satellite in orbit.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 9, 2020

In this session we provided the students with an appreciation of how the United States National Security Strategy arrived at the conclusion that we are in an era of great power competition with Russia and China. Russia at the time showed promising signs of moving closer to democracy. Optimism turns into reality. Fast forward to 2017.

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David Teten

MARCH 5, 2021

based founders, 35 were white* American; four were white immigrant/first generation, from France, Ukraine, Russia and Iran; and four were Indian immigrant/first generation. Kauffman Fellows Report (2020): “Diverse Founding Teams generate higher median realized multiples (RMs) on Acquisitions and IPOs]. Of the 43 U.S.-based

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 14, 2021

At the same time, Russia has reemerged as a regional power. For example, our requirements and acquisition systems are driven by a 70-year-old model predicated on predicting the future (both threats and technology) and delivering solutions decades out; and optimized for lifecycle costs, not rapid innovation or disposable systems.

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thenextweb.com

AUGUST 6, 2012

While finishing his final two years of his PhD, helping take reddit to acquisition in late 2006 and moving to San Francisco to start a family, Chris had realised that academia was not the road for him. “I But even with this acquisition, Loopt remains ahead of the curve. Latin America. Middle East. From small seeds grow mighty oaks.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 9, 2020

In this session we provided the students with an appreciation of how the United States National Security Strategy arrived at the conclusion that we are in an era of great power competition with Russia and China. Russia at the time showed promising signs of moving closer to democracy. Optimism turns into reality. Fast forward to 2017.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2021

is engaged in great power competition with both China and Russia. All which leads to today’s topic, the other great power – Russia. Michael McFaul, “ How to Contain Putin’s Russia: A Strategy for Countering a Rising Revisionist Power ” Foreign Affairs , 2021. Russia’s Pivot to Asia & the Chinese-Russian Relationship.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

With competitors in the US often 10 times bigger, they’d become an acquisition target. We had a good product that worked well in France, so we expanded it across Europe between 2011 and 2014, before moving to a more global scale, launching in Russia, Mexico, and India. When would you go for an acquisition versus an organic launch?

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

There are a number of specific areas where these blurred lines led to subpar policies that undermined America’s technological competitiveness and left the country weaker against adversaries like Russia and China. Consider four recent examples: semiconductors, drones, the SolarWinds hack, and SpaceX’s Starship. military installations.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 31, 2011

Israeli startup acquisitions. A bit old but still very relevant – Questions asked about Groupon’s acquisition of Israel’s Grouper for an estimated $8 to $15 million. Iway founder and Chief Executive Danny Knafou said the first countries to offer the product would likely be France, Russia and China. Macro News.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 3, 2020

But if the second, more realistic camp wins out – one that looks at malign activities of competitor states, like China and Russia, and focuses on defending American influence and liberal values internationally – I think there will be a striking amount of continuity. I think Biden said that the top threat to America was Russia.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

One of my jobs in the past was consulting measures and acquisitions. And you need to look at the data very critically, because the other side of the merger or acquisition is actually trying to frame all the information in a way that is beneficial to that side and against your side. My group of friends from Russia sent this to me.

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