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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. 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

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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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 17 – Organizational Design – Safi Bahcall

Steve Blank

Does the story of a superpower ignoring distant threats from seemingly weak competitors sound familiar from the class discussions on China? Google, at the time, was overhauling the back end of their search engine. They built their search engine 20 years ago. and China in the near, mid, and long-term time frames.

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[Review] Marketing To The Ageing Consumer

YoungUpstarts

Come 2050, another 25 countries will have ageing populations, the largest of which is China. The answer, according to Dick Stroud and Kim Walker in “ Marketing to the Ageing Consumer: The Secrets to Building an Age-Friendly Business “, is to embrace age-friendly approaches. Are they at the right height? Highly recommended.

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5 Sources Of Ideas That Turn Into The Next Big Thing

Startup Professionals Musings

Entrepreneurs who search for real pain points, and build solutions around them, have the best chance of changing the world. Other countries can provide e-commerce with different business models, outsource manufacturing at low cost, and a huge market for new products. The impact of global instability.

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5 Generators Of Customer Pain Conducive To Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

Entrepreneurs who search for real pain points, and build solutions around them, have the best chance of changing the world. Other countries can provide e-commerce with different business models, outsource manufacturing at low cost, and a huge market for new products. The impact of global instability.

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How to raise money for your startup from VCs and investors in Asia

The Next Web

However, this primarily applies to businesses within China and India, where these big firms reside, as they rarely invest in startups outside of those two countries. As I touched on before, China and India have the most mature VC communities. the large government-linked corporations setting up their own venture arms (e.g.

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