Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Just look at the disruptive challenges that businesses face today– globalization, China as a manufacturer, China as a consumer, the Internet, and a steady stream of new startups. The first will be commodity businesses that are valued for their ability to execute their current business model.

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Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 325

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2014

Other elements of startup focus are a bit fuzzier, so let me zoom-in on some key ones here: Type of business model. Providing shoes for the poor is a laudable goal, but quite a different business than Zappos , which sells clothes profitably, and provides free shoes for the needy due to social consciousness.

Entrepreneur 257

Entrepreneur Technical Review Angel Investor China 257

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 28, 2015

TBR believes Apple is primed for a run of year-to-year growth each quarter in 2015 between 5% and 10%, particularly as its relationships with China’s largest carriers, China Mobile and China Unicom, mature. Apple’s success in China – Greater China revenue surged 70% year-to-year in 4Q14 to $16.1

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2013

Other elements of startup focus are a bit fuzzier, so let me zoom-in on some key ones here: Type of business model. Providing shoes for the poor is a laudable goal, but quite a different business than Zappos , which sells clothes profitably, and provides free shoes for the needy due to social consciousness.

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Startup Technical Review Angel Investor China 257

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2023

Other countries can provide e-commerce with different business models, outsource manufacturing at low cost, and a huge market for new products. Unpredictable forces, such as unrest in the Middle East and China, can quickly change energy cost equations, or availability of critical products. The impact of global instability.

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Up and Running

JUNE 14, 2021

After speaking with Alex Shelton and hearing his story, we can safely say this is definitely still a profitable business model. Most sellers source their inventory from abroad, primarily from China, since it’s generally cheaper than purchasing items domestically. We decided to chat with an actual Amazon seller to find out.

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China Sales Advertising Software Review 117

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 27, 2011

Asia – especially in countries such as India, China, Vietnam – is fast becoming the place where many entrepreneurs, whether locally born or lured back from Silicon Valley, are setting up shop.

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Asia Technical Review Vietnam Singapore 167

Gust

AUGUST 17, 2014

Other elements of startup focus are a bit fuzzier, so let me zoom-in on some key ones here: Type of business model. Providing shoes for the poor is a laudable goal, but quite a different business than Zappos , which sells clothes profitably, and provides free shoes for the needy due to social consciousness.

Entrepreneur 182

Entrepreneur Technical Review Angel Investor China 182

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2020

Other countries can provide e-commerce with different business models, outsource manufacturing at low cost, and a huge market for new products. Unpredictable forces, such as unrest in the Middle East and China, can quickly change energy cost equations, or availability of critical products. The impact of global instability.

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Customer Startup China California 417

Up and Running

AUGUST 24, 2020

Here are just a few things you can do by leveraging data analytics: Gain a better understanding of changing customer preferences Discover new business opportunities Identify and eliminate bottlenecks in your operations Minimize and better allocate advertising costs Provide greater customer support through automated chat.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2014

China, Russia, Brazil, India, Indonesia all meet those criteria. The biggest mistake for most of these startups was not understanding that optimizing their business model for the 24 million people in the Australian market would not prepare them for the size and scale they needed to get to big. Outside the U.S. Trip 2 to the U.S.

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Global Australia Silicon Valley China 335

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Now, with new hope, I’m planning to start the Elderly Care Service business in 2021. The increase of elderly people in China will certainly offer a superb opportunity for developing an elderly care business. So in 2021, I’m planning to create and grow another blogging business, targeting a niche, need or segment of the market.

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Up and Running

MAY 10, 2021

The mobile-savvy nations are China, Norway, United Kingdom, Japan, and Australia. You can start by researching your competitors to gain an understanding of cost structure, revenue generation, and the business model for your app. Take a look at some of the stats. Smart clothes.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2012

Long before there was the Lean Startup, Business Model Canvas or Customer Development there was a guy in Santa Barbara California who had already figured it out. In December and January we met with ten customers in Korea, Japan, and China. We were a team, convinced by a shared experience, that we knew what to do.

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San Jose Technical Review Customer Development Software Review 256

Austin Startup

OCTOBER 30, 2017

The greatest threat to modern China comes not from foreign invasion, but in the form of bicycles, millions of bicycles. So many bikes on my recent trip to Beijing Chairman Xi Jinping: take notice, the greatest threat to China is not from America, it is from the bazillion bicycles you’ve permitted to infest your sidewalks.

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China Egypt Startup America 54

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Looking to another part of the world, a number of analysts are betting that China, the most populous country on the planet, will take up some demographic slack and be the growth engine of the future. Companies need to be creative and find new business models to take advantage of the shifting makeup of their operating countries’ populations.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 16, 2020

7 March 2020 statistics show that there are a total of 102 180 infections across sixty-four countries, the majority in China. And, while the infection rate seems to be dropping in mainland China, it is growing in the rest of the world with new countries added every day.

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New Jersey China Affiliate Global 179

Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

China’s Age of Malaise [Evan Osnos/New Yorker] – A loooong read but essential stuff if you are interested in China from an sort of view (cultural, economic, geopolitical, startup). When I return to China these days, the feeling of ineluctable ascent has waned.

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Venture Capital China Government Early Stage 65

Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

7 Companies in China have raised more than $1 billion in an IPO this year. And with their capital and confidence, China and India are stretching their wings. Action Point: Core to every strategic session for any company of ambition should include these simple questions: • What is your China strategy? In the U.S. This is HARD.

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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. Expert networks, by the nature of their business model, can easily create conflicts of interest with other entities.

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China Networking Database Global 138

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.

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Revenue Technical Review Lean Mobile 100

Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

And the trick is we use the same Lean LaunchPad / I-Corps curriculum — and kept the same class structure – experiential, hands-on, driven this time by a mission -model not a business model. Team SeaWatch – Maritime Security in the South China Sea. If you can’t see the SeaWatch 2-minute video click here.

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Oakland Asia Lean Video 301

Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2013

As soon as they had designed the product, they found a contract manufacturer to build the product in China. Alice and Bettina are hands-on mechanical and electrical engineers, so instead of assuming everything would go smoothly, they wisely got on a plane to Dongguan China and worked with the factory directly. They learned a ton.

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PR China Lean Channel 314

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

Take China-based AI startup SenseTime, for example. Later stage funding can be provided for startups that have fully matured with a wide user base and a working business model. In China, tech giants like Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent Holdings, are going global to build their in-house capabilities.

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Venture Capital Asia Artificial Inteligence Later Stage 196

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 22, 2020

There are many mistakes entrepreneurs make when they first start their business. We highlight the two most important ones we think can make or break your business. Not ensuring that your business model is profitable. If you want to sell items using Amazon’s FBA program, there is a base fee of $2.54

Entrepreneur 147

Entrepreneur China Business Model Demand 147

Steve Blank

MARCH 4, 2014

Facing continuous disruption from globalization, China, the Internet, the diminished power of brands, changing workforce, etc., The Enterprise: Business Model Execution We know that a startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. The question is – why?

IRR 335

IRR Startup Business Model Agile 335

Steve Blank

JUNE 23, 2016

These resulting business models made them look incredibly profitable. They knew how to execute the current business model. ARM, a competitor, not only had a better, much lower power processor, but a better business model – they licensed their architecture to other companies that designed their own products.

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Architecture IRR Balance Sheet Liquidity Event 227

The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2020

Remember: don’t be fooled into thinking your current business model can simply be reproduced across different international markets. Take China for example. If you don’t do the relevant research and make a crucial error in the execution of your marketing efforts, this could come back to bite you.

China 90

China Early Stage Business Model Matching 90

Steve Blank

MARCH 14, 2012

You can watch as this team pivots through Customer Segments by clicking through their business model canvases at the end of presentation. Interviewed 154 customers in China plus surveyed another 48. Application to the class is the teams business model canvas. The MiCasa customer discovery narrative blog is here.

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Lean Business Model Customer Development China 248

The Next Web

OCTOBER 2, 2013

China is the world’s largest country with more than 1.3 Distribution and cashflow pose challenges in China. On the other hand, in China, most of the users, the majority, are not well educated and in big cities working in foreign companies. That’s why the free business model is so popular in China.

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China Developer Intellectual Property Mobile 122

Reid Hoffman

MARCH 9, 2021

These innovations are impactful, but there are also ample opportunities to innovate purely on the business model. That’s a statement of business innovation, not technological innovation. I helped establish the business model. Consider Jeff’s famous saying, “your margin is my opportunity.”

Leadership 42

Leadership Technical Review Cofounder Later Stage 42

Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2013

As soon as they had designed the product, they found a contract manufacturer to build the product in China. Alice and Bettina are hands-on mechanical and electrical engineers, so instead of assuming everything would go smoothly, they wisely got on a plane to Dongguan China and worked with the factory directly. They learned a ton.

PR 206

PR China Lean Channel 206

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 17, 2010

Showcase Of Web Design In China: From Imitation To Innovation - [link]. Micropayments and Subscriptions: How Business Models for Startups are Shifting - [link]. Why My Small Business Uses crowdSPRING – Innova Apps, Inc. - [link]. Micropayments and Subscriptions: How Business Models for Startups are Shifting - [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 88

Hearpreneur

JULY 24, 2020

Big business seems dead set on eliminating small business and government regulation is consistently making it more challenging to live the American dream. As we saw the world completely change in a matter of a week, existing business owners & entrepreneurs were forced to face major changes in their business models.

Entrepreneur 128

Entrepreneur Technical Review Security Demand 128

Steve Blank

APRIL 1, 2020

This plan has three parts: Pivots to your new business model, changes to your operating plan, and what initiatives you save for the recovery. China and South Korea are starting their factories up again. China and South Korea are starting their factories up again. CEOs of companies that manufacture goods in the U.S.

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South Korea Salary Business Model China 333

Agile VC

MAY 22, 2014

What we can glean from the S-1 is a qualitative understanding of the monetization of each marketplace, as well as a clearer understanding of revenue from the wholesale part of Alibaba (Alibaba.com/1688) vs the retail parts (Taobao, Tmall, Juhuasuan) and how much comes from China vs non-China (<10% of revenue is non-China).

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China Revenue Flash Affiliate 159

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 22, 2017

The interiors of driverless cars will likewise create game-changing business models, for example, between an airline and a car rental company. Certainly, there are no better indicators to show how a business makes decisions and how these apply to the society than the business’ models and underlying profit motives.

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Singapore Artificial Inteligence Government Asia 177