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

Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

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. New Rules for China. All the usual caveats apply. business models.

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

Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

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. New Rules for China. All the usual caveats apply. business models.

China

China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property

Massacre at IBM

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. I want to tell you a story about how a team pivoted and succeeded by synchronizing product and customer development. Filed under: Customer Development.

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Blind Men and an Elephant- Nature Versus Nurture and Entrepreneurship

Steve Blank

APRIL 19, 2010

The question is whether you are born with innate entrepreneurial talent or whether you can be taught to operate like an entrepreneur. And how do we explain China ? China today is a hotbed of entrepreneurship. But there were no large-scale entrepreneurs in China in the 1960’s. Taking Sides. Entrepreneurs are born not made.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

This was followed by an 8-minute slide presentation describing their customer discovery journey over the 10-weeks. All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , (videos here ) Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique. Jeff served in the U.S.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 3

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. We just held our third session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War.

Technology

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

Steve Blank

JANUARY 8, 2019

In the government space, Russian interference with elections, and China building island bases in the South China Sea as well as repurposing ICBMs as conventional weapons to attack aircraft carriers, are examples of radical disruption using existing technologies deployed in extremely short periods of time.

China

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Who’s Doing the Learning?

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

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Founders and dysfunctional families « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

We agreed that all her founding CEOs seemed to have the same set of personality traits – tenacious, passionate, relentless, resilient, agile, and comfortable operating in chaos. It’s why all of you operated so well in the unpredictable environment that all startups face.” Let me know what you think.

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Who’s Doing the Learning?

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

PR China Lean Channel

Intel Disrupted: Why large companies find it difficult to innovate, and what they can do about it

Steve Blank

JUNE 23, 2016

In contrast, startups operate with speed and urgency, making decisions with incomplete information. They’re better than large companies at identifying customer needs/problems and finding product/market fit by pivoting rapidly. They re-envision how an industry can operate and grow, and they focus on better value propositions.

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SuperMac War Story 4: Repositioning SuperMac – “Market Type” at.

Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2009

It wasn’t until I found the extremely obscure Lanchester Strategy for market share that I realized that these ratios had their basis in operations research and the Lanchester’s Laws.) Our company’s graphics boards were designed to speed up a key part of the Macintosh graphics operating system called QuickDraw.

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Twitter Link Roundup #152 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Using mTurk to interview 100 customers (in 4 hours) | Customer Development Labs - [link]. How Customers evaluate your product | StartupCFO – [link]. Avoiding operating at capacity | Gabriel Weinberg’s Blog - [link]. Convincing Women in China They’re Too Hairy | Businessweek - [link].

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Fly High

Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2013

Unfortunately the class operates much like the military acquisition system: the project specification has minimal input from real world users, the product gets built with a waterfall engineering process, and there’s no input on whether the product actually meets real world needs until the product is delivered. While the U.S.

Silicon Valley

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Fly High

Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2013

Unfortunately the class operates much like the military acquisition system: the project specification has minimal input from real world users, the product gets built with a waterfall engineering process, and there’s no input on whether the product actually meets real world needs until the product is delivered. While the U.S.

Silicon Valley

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Why Companies are Not Startups

Steve Blank

MARCH 4, 2014

Facing continuous disruption from globalization, China, the Internet, the diminished power of brands, changing workforce, etc., existing enterprises are establishing corporate innovation groups. These metrics stack the deck against a company that wants to invest in long-term innovation.).

IRR

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 42: Tina Fitch and Alice Brooks

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

. — Alice and her team made it point to not just get customer insights but to understand all aspects of their business model. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. 6 : David Taylor , founder of Crudefunders ; and Bill Keenan , chairman and CEO of Pango Financial.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Making the World a Safer Place

Steve Blank

JANUARY 26, 2016

DF-21 and Islands in the South China Sea. The class will also teach the islands of innovation in the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community: how the innovation culture and mindset operate at speed. Filed under: Customer Development , Science and Industrial Policy , Teaching. Yet in the last decade the U.S.

Silicon Valley

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 42: Tina Fitch and Alice Brooks

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

. — Alice and her team made it point to not just get customer insights but to understand all aspects of their business model. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. 6 : David Taylor , founder of Crudefunders ; and Bill Keenan , chairman and CEO of Pango Financial.

Cofounder

Cofounder Entrepreneur Hawaii Massachusetts

When It’s Darkest Men See the Stars

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. Risk capital has emerged in China, India and other countries where risk taking, innovation and liquidity is encouraged, on a scale previously only seen in the U.S. When the speed of how businesses operated changed forever.

Silicon Valley

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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

To continually innovate, companies need to operate at startup speed and cycle time much longer their 20 th century counterparts did. China has simply become the factory. Risk capital has emerged in China, India and other countries where risk taking, innovation and liquidity are encouraged, on a scale previously only seen in the U.S.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VII: We Fought a War You.

Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2009

That same year China fell to the communists under Mao Zedong, and the Nationalist government retreated to Taiwan. Have they moved to their forward operating bases in the Artic?) As tensions rose, there was a growing fear that the Soviets could invade and occupy all of Western Europe. monopoly on atomic weaponry.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Sourcing in China. Smart China Sourcing. In addition, TheFunded.com allows entrepreneurs to view and share term sheets, to assist one other finding good investor, and to discuss the many facets of operating a business. Customer Development. Codeacademy.

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

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

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Founders and dysfunctional families « Steve Blank

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