YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 4, 2014

In a sweeping expose on the dynamic forces shaping the “New East”, Ben Simpfendorfer’s “ The Rise of the New East: Business Strategies for Success in a World of Increasing Complexity ” provides an in-depth view of how the economic resurgence of Asia and the Middle East are changing global markets.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 18, 2013

Anu Madgavkar, senior fellow at the McKinsey Global Institute , shared these and more interesting insights into small businesses in Asia during a sharing session organized by search giant Google. In Vietnam, a 2011 McKinsey survey revealed that Vietnamese SMEs reported a 19.3% increase in productivity from using web technologies.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

When I got out of the Air Force after Vietnam, I lived in Michigan and I installed process control systems in automobile assembly plants and steel mills across the industrial heart of the Midwest. And while we gave those policies polite names like globalization and outsourcing, the consequences have wreaked havoc on towns like Janesville.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

had been engaged in the Vietnam War, and had agreed to parity in nuclear weapons, Soviet forces in Europe had built a 3 to 1 advantage in tanks, artillery, armored personnel carriers, and soldiers, all under Détente. The Arms Factories that Won the Cold War Were Semiconductor Factories Who was the government official pushing all of this?

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

alone, topping half a million — exceeding the number of deaths across World Wars I and II and Vietnam combined) to devastating economic burdens ( exacerbating pre-pandemic record levels of income inequality). But network effects tend to persist because the value of the network to its participants outweighs the costs. in 1947 and 7.5x

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

I realized that working for large companies who were fighting each other, or fighting the government, was never going to scratch that itch. These businesses were helping people straighten their teeth at a much lower cost and with less pain than traditional alternatives such as braces. Photo Credit: Alex Dask.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Throughout the 1990s, we were focused on how to integrate China into the global system so that it would become a responsible stakeholder. But also, to bring more tech talent into government to really help speed the transformation process. Rather just rewarding this rigorous, we only care about cost and schedule.

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