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Sprint Like An Egyptian: A Tech Entrepreneurship Revolution in Alexandria

Gust

Or something. ”Yes, but… ” Those who have spent much time in the developing world are likely accustomed to dealing with this sort of frustration on a daily basis. The risk-reward tradeoff in finance should hold true in developing and unstable regions as well. Silicon Arabia has engineers in Russia as well as Egypt.)

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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. They realized if they could develop and promote a well-coordinated sports technologies industry, they could capture their unfair share of the $300 billon sports consumer market. For example, many of the Australian sports tech business models shared common elements.

Global 335
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Why Internal Ventures are Different from External Startups

Steve Blank

For those who don’t know, I wrote the book Open Innovation in 2003, and followed it with Open Business Models in 2006, and Open Services Innovation in 2011. A startup is a temporary organization in search of a repeatable, scalable business model. When companies want to innovate a new business model (vs.

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The Fatal Flaw of the Three Horizons Model and How To Fix It

Steve Blank

However, in the 21 st century the Three Horizons model has a fatal flaw that could put companies out of business and government agencies behind their adversaries. While traditional analysis suggests that Horizon 3 disruptive innovations take years to develop, in today’s world this is no longer the case. And here’s the big idea.

China 297
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Double Down on Digital Tech Innovation

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Strategic plans so carefully developed now look like Napoleon’s disastrous return from his invasion of Russia (see graphic). Our businesses are in Moscow now. Even when we have it, the ramp up to production, logistics to distribute, and the issues related to reluctance will slow things down.

Russia 94
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Lessons for the DoD – From Ukraine and China

Steve Blank

The government buys and distributes commercial images from startups to supplement their own and shares them with Ukraine as part of a broader intelligence-sharing arrangement that the head of Defense Intelligence Agency described as “ revolutionary.” Today, commercial companies have their own satellites providing unclassified imagery.

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Stuck in the middle with you (an uncut rant)

VC Cafe

Not sure about what percentage of those get used (there’s more than 125 million active vs. unknown no of parked domains), but many of the owners try their luck and spend money on hosting, design, development and maybe even a little bit of marketing. based in emerging markets: Russia, China, India. com, qq.com, sina.com.cn).

Russia 68