Steve Blank

JANUARY 18, 2022

The sum of these Chinese offset strategies means that in the South China Sea the U.S. This does not bode well for our treaty allies, Japan, the Philippines, and South Korea. The Navy has world-class engineering and acquisition processes to deal with hardware. Instead, iterative design approaches dominate software design.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 1, 2020

China and South Korea are starting their factories up again. How can you shift focus to customer retention versus acquisition? The plan must also take into account that this crisis has exposed how vulnerable companies are to a single source of supply. CEOs of companies that manufacture goods in the U.S.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

These companies report gross ad revenue but then subtract out “TAC” (Traffic Acquisition Costs) which is basically accounting-speak for the revenue share they pay to the partner sites where the ads actually appear. But places like Brazil and India are estimated at 20-30% and Japan and South Korea at <15%.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 3, 2012

FLASH COMPANY ANOBIT TO BE APPLE’S FIRST ISRAELI ACQUISITION. Anobit previously supplied its technology to South Korea’s Hynix Semiconductor Inc., Following the acquisition, Akamai will set up a research and development center in Israel. Akamai Technologies Inc.,

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

Among others, I would quote the Bladelogic IPO, the acquisition of Postini by Google for $625m, the two largest SaaS deals in history signed by Cornerstone OnDemand (160k and 350k seats), Eloqua almost doubling its revenues and LinkedIn adding more than 10m users.

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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. What did South Korea do?

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