Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

Engineering Serendipity Making real connections starts with having the right people in the room. We don’t know of any other location in DC or elsewhere in the country where multiple government innovation groups are colocated together with startups to create their own center of gravity. Wednesday, March 13 Every day 10:00am-5:00pm.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

government does have some unique convening power and the ability to tap external talent and resources. Times China bureau chief Julie Makinen , who is on a JSK journalism fellowship at Stanford , and is part of our mentorship team, has been taking notes on Weeks 7 and 8. The teaching team delivers comments, pulling no punches.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

government does have some unique convening power and the ability to tap external talent and resources. Times China bureau chief Julie Makinen , who is on a JSK journalism fellowship at Stanford , and is part of our mentorship team, has been taking notes on Weeks 7 and 8. The teaching team delivers comments, pulling no punches.

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Gust

AUGUST 22, 2012

How spoiled we are, taking for granted a system of government with relatively stable, transparent laws and regulations, consistently applied (at least in theory), and subject to judicial oversight with appellate review. What the heck was I doing in Egypt anyway?

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

Salon C Register: SXSW badge required The Texas Startup Manifesto SXSW Report on Trust: Gov’t, Tech & Media with WP Engine CEO Heather Brunner Join the legendary Dan Rather, Heather Brunner (WP Engine), Jess Clifton (Edelman Digital), moderator Richard Edelman and host Hugh Forrest (SXSW). Contrasting China via their Zhi-Xing (? ?,

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

And in the 21st century, it will take China and India just 15 years. The rise of the middle class in emerging markets. Young demographics in emerging markets. For example, one occupation in high demand— wind turbine service technicians— perfectly illustrates the growth of the engineering and alternative, clean energy sector.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

The survey indicated that the VCs surveyed felt the best prospects were for entrepreneurs in emerging markets like China, Brazil, and India. It has become a cliche that startups are the engines of job growth in the US, and this is for a very good reason: they are. Startups will sustain domestic employment. Photo: Alan Levine.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 9, 2010

First up today was Jacqueline Floro-Pierre with ShopTranslated from China. ShopTranslated is a mass-market online retailer of plus-sized women's clothing, with merchandise in the $59-$99 range. Jacqueline and her partner Cortney are designing and manufacturing the line out of China and selling in the U.S. That sounds great.

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David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

Specialized alumni tech networks : Accelerate Yale (which had merged into it YaleFintech and Yale Tech), Yale Science & Engineering Association. Marketing of tech community : Yale Tech News , Yale Entrepreneurship Magazine. Teaching and research on entrepreneurship : SOM’s Program on Entrepreneurship , Kyle Jensen’s courses.

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Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Because for the first time in human history, true competition – the kind of competition that brought us the $300 computer, the electric car that goes 95 miles-per-hour, the $800 HD big-screen TV, and free overnight shipping on purchases as small as a few dollars, THAT kind of competition is coming to a government near you. Impractical?

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Transcript of Questioning Best Practices to Do Great Work written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I speak with Jay Acunzo. This episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is brought to you by Klaviyo. I came out of the marketing tech world. Transcript.

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Start Up Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

And to that list we can add any country which isn’t the USA or China. When new technology arrived they had to embrace it, and very often build out the projects using government funds in large capital works, and at times, even take over private firms who got too powerful (antitrust). Welcome to the age of digital colonialism.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Will it alter or negatively influence government policies particularly on taxation and licenses? Should car companies decide to sell cars directly to fleet operators instead of to consumers, they would allocate marketing and research funds differently. The AV’s impact on the environment must also be taken into account.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 29, 2013

Most commonly, that’s uncertainty about whether you can build the product at all (what MBAs call “technical risk”) or whether anybody will use or buy it (“market risk”). For example, when your company adds ano ther blade to its disposal razors , the product’s technical development, marketing and sales will follow relatively predictable paths.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

In 1949, with the detection of the first Soviet nuclear weapons test, the Iron Curtain falling across Europe and the fall of China to the Communists, Cold War paranoia drove the U.S. The university found government contracts profitable as the government reimbursed their overhead charges (their indirect costs.)

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 28, 2010

There is plenty of debate, however, over what drives that job creation engine in our country. 6) The most efficient fuel for this IPO engine is venture capital. government dataset compiled by the U.S. . … Four of the twenty companies with the largest market capitalization in the U.S.—Microsft, ” (ix) The U.S.

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Agile VC

MAY 22, 2014

My first two posts on this mammoth S-1 covered a high-level sizing of Alibaba and a deeper dive into some of Alibaba Group’s governance which in some ways mirrors the Politburo structure. This is pretty different from eBay, which generates some revenue from ads & marketing services, but the vast majority (80%) from transaction fees.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

It is generally accepted that the novel coronavirus, COVID-19 , was first seen in Wuhan, China, during the last days of 2019. One of the many challenges facing the world’s governments is the fact that no one really knows how this virus behaves. Crisis versus opportunity: Setting the Scene. This virus is a zoonotic virus.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

Many cups of coffee and pizzas later, the weekend culminates in a round of presentations from the teams, which clearly articulate the startup’s pitch: problem, market, solution, team, etc. For example, you may point out that there is a company with similar technology, but different application/market. Know your market.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2020

The institutions that governed our lives before are under extreme stress, and the cracks and gaps in the system are becoming rifts and fault lines. First in Wuhan, China, and then the fact that it can spread so quickly in Italy and continental Europe really surprises me and I think a lot of others as well in the scientific community.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 26, 2016

Hacking for Defense is a new course at Stanford’s Engineering School in the Spring of 2016. DF-21 and Islands in the South China Sea. All while we’re still writing a Request for a Proposal from within the US Government procurement and acquisition channels. Yet in the last decade the U.S. North Korea. We’re Our Own Worst Enemy.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2017

They hope to “solve tangled and wicked problems inherited in the rapid urbanization,” according to research from the Center for Technology in Government at the State University of New York at Albany. The smart city industry is projected to be a $400 billion market by 2020, with 600 cities worldwide, TechRepublic reports.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 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. The previous post described how China built its science and technology infrastructure. It has become China’s Silicon Valley.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Countries like Russia, China, Canada, and the United States are involved in drilling races, trying to capture as much of the crude oil market as they can, all the while implementing new energy tech innovation to improve safety, productivity, and environmental impact. The well system uses three types of rigs which are mounted on trucks.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Because of a global donor blood shortage, particularly in emerging markets, clinicians and patients don’t have enough access to donor blood. Over the next four years, Sisu, which strives to be the future of medical devices in emerging markets, expects to impact 14 million lives with Hemafuse?—?direct and Indian companies.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 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. The previous post described how China built its science and technology infrastructure. It has become China’s Silicon Valley.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

Economic inequality and opportunities for job growth are directly correlated with overall spending levels on R&D and with the geographic concentration (or distribution) or those dollars — both public funding (government) and private (as with VC). As noted above, government spending on R&D has fallen and at the same time U.S.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 1, 2015

So around 800 AD some clever folks in China developed the world’s first paper currency, which served as a kind of “promise” against a future payment of something else, such as precious metals. I wrote a few years ago about some innovations that changed the world. The Mobile Phone (1973). The most amazing thing of all?

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 25, 2022

The last year has seen a ton written about the semiconductor industry: chip shortages, the CHIPS Act , our dependence on Taiwan and TSMC , China, etc. Companies in the semiconductor ecosystem make chips (the triangle on the left) and sell them to companies and government agencies (on the right). The industry is dominated by three U.S.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 14, 2015

New markets, unfamiliar cultures, administrative procedures, visas, sales, and potential language barriers are enough to deter any Magellan-esque ambition. See Also: How to Do Market Research. and are getting a lot of traffic and conversions from China, it may be worth looking into why this is happening. Government funding.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2009

Frederick Terman, Stanford’s Dean of Engineering, enlisted Stanford University as a major arms suppliers in this war. Stanford as a Center of Microwave and Electronics In 1946 after running the military’s secret 800 person Electronic Warfare Lab at Harvard, Fred Terman returned to Stanford as the dean of the engineering schoo l.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

There are times when small and slow is the right strategy for a specific market opportunity. When the market conditions are right, you should blitzscale for the benefit of all stakeholders: customers, employees, investors, and society. Blitzscaling is a response to market dynamics, not the cause.

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VC Adventure

MAY 19, 2010

While I wouldn’t say that I’m a “fan” of government, I’ve always been of the mind that some level of government safety-net is appropriate. arguments against the tripling of tax on the long term profits of investors.

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Eric Friedman

NOVEMBER 10, 2008

I recently interviewed Motoko Hunt of AJPR for Search Engine Strategies Chicago where she will be speaking in the Search Around the World: Europe, Asia/Pacific & Latin America panel. Then I got into marketing, and worked as Senior Marketing and Procurement Manager at Japanese trading firm in California. Motoko Hunt.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 8, 2019

It’s one of the quickest ways to describe and prioritize innovation ideas in a large company or government agency. 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. That’s no longer true in the 21 st century.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2011

The innovation engine that powered the U.S. In addition, due to Sarbanes-Oxley and other regulations, accounting costs have gone up an estimated four times for all businesses, and 2008-2009 represented the worst IPO market in forty years. More and more people, like Henry R. Rates around the world are still going down, while U.S.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 11, 2020

Obviously, I think that in a time like this, this is when we should have a government response, but I don't think there's been enough of a government response focused on funding the things that can get us out of this. Then there's a great culture of testing and isolation like China did and I haven't heard a really convincing fourth.

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