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Global Perspective: Current Opportunities for Low-Cost Manufacturing in China

The Startup Magazine

Businesses all over the world – including startups – have sourced their product manufacturing in China for over a decade now. But in the past few years, a number of news articles and blogs have speculated whether China remains a low-cost destination for manufacturers. Why China sourcing is still popular. Source: Pixabay.

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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 4- Semiconductors

Steve Blank

is now engaged in great power competition with both China and Russia. In class 2 the class focused on China, the U.S.’s ” Having covered the elements of national power ( DIME-FIL ) and China and Russia, the class now shifts to the impact commercial technologies have on DIME-FIL. s primary great power competitor.

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China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

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. Note that the inner ring shows their global equivalents.).

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China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

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. Note that the inner ring shows their global equivalents.).

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Securing the Supply Chain – COVID-19 series

Start Up Blog

With 70 years of unimpeded global growth and globalisation we’ve all become a little complacent. Scenario 1: Floods in China. Let’s imagine China faces an unprecedented period of rain due to climate change. Nothing can get in our out of China which isn’t on an airplane. Scenario 2: Global Internet Virus.

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Born Global or Die Local – Building a Regional Startup Playbook

Steve Blank

China, Russia, Brazil, India, Indonesia all meet those criteria. However, most countries don’t have sufficient population to support scale with just their local market and ultimately need to be global players – from day one. Born Global or Die Local. while building their products in China. Outside the U.S.

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The Midas List Then and Now

View from Seed

2009 was the nadir of the global economic crisis, followed up an unprecedented bull market. The biggest rise, unsurprisingly, was China, which enjoyed a huge surge in venture capital dollars over the past decade and enjoyed its fair share of blockbuster exits. First, let’s set the stage for this time period.