Steve Blank
DECEMBER 11, 2020
Google, at the time, was overhauling the back end of their search engine. They built their search engine 20 years ago. Bigger jets, bigger engines, bigger ships, as opposed to the small changes that can make an enormous difference. Which of these actions would impose the greatest cost on China if implemented?
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. Yet it is a business that manipulates materials an atom at a time and its factories cost 10s of billions of dollars to build. (By Electronic Design Automation (EDA) Tools.
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Steve Blank
APRIL 19, 2023
is supporting a proxy war with Russia while simultaneously attempting to deter a China cross-strait invasion of Taiwan. This has allowed the Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) to integrate private capital and commercial technology and use them as a force multiplier to dominate the South China Sea and prepare for a cross-strait invasion of Taiwan.
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.
Steve Blank
JANUARY 18, 2022
They converted reefs in international waters into airbases, creating unsinkable aircraft carriers that extend the range of their aircraft and are armed with surface to air missiles make it dangerous to approach China’s mainland and Taiwan. As the chief engineer of the Navy, he was the master of engineering the large and the complex.
VC Cafe
JANUARY 29, 2024
Many startups extended runway, cut costs and took on painful down rounds or expensive debt to avoid raising in 2023. It’s not just a cost consideration, but a desire for independence and neutrality. Those ‘band aids’ are running their course and it might get worse (i.e.
The Next Web
DECEMBER 17, 2013
ly” extension is New York-based Lover.ly , a visual search engine for wedding planners, aiming to forever change the way brides plan their big day. “I He woke up in the night and it just came to him… also, pistachios in Taiwan are called happy nuts, and in other cultures they’re reserved for royalty!”. Paul Graham. Believe.in.
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