Brandanew

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Coca Cola traps itself between Russia and Ukraine Politics. The cola giant posted a Christmas card showing a beautified map of Russia, as a part of a greeting to Russians. This resulted in the Ukraine embassy showing its concern for the illegally occupied Crimea region by Russia. Start with an eCourse HERE. .

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2021

At the front-end of these innovations are startups – organizations the Department of Defense hasn’t previously dealt with at scale. Mrinal and Jeff’s article below explains how startups can adapt and thrive while working with the Defense Department. And how the Department of Defense is learning to work with startups.

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Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2022

They’re not the only startup in this fight. An entire wave of new startups and scaleups are providing satellite imagery and analysis, satellite communications, and unmanned aerial vehicles supporting the struggle. Other startups are providing portable cell towers – “backpackable” and fixed. In the U.S.,

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OnlyOnce

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Startup CEOs feel pressure to speak up on news events: Black Lives Matter, Abortion, LBGTQ+ rights, the conflict in Israel/Palestine, Trump vs. Biden. Example: If you have employees in a state banning abortion and you tell them your startup will support them as much as the law allows, this could create great peace of mind for employees.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 25, 2019

When it comes down to startups, as well as emerging businesses, they have to make efforts to succeed in getting where they want. Startups in developing economies, for instance, are addressing their issues through ingenious technologies and solutions. The question now is: what are the best markets for startups?

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

It’s worth considering the reasons why nations decline — they lose allies, a decline in economic power (the UK in the 20th Century); they lose interest in global affairs (China in the 15th Century); internal/civil conflicts (Russia in the 20th Century.) neglected strategic threats from China and a rearmed Russia. Slides 35-37.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Scalable startups are on a trajectory for a billion dollar market cap. But if you want to build a scalable startup you need to be asking how you can you get enough customers/users/payers to build a business that can grow revenues past several $100M/year. startups ignore the rest of the world until they scale in their own country.

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David Teten

MARCH 5, 2021

based founders, 35 were white* American; four were white immigrant/first generation, from France, Ukraine, Russia and Iran; and four were Indian immigrant/first generation. This would be easy to detect: among their portfolio companies, do startups with female founders outperform those without? Of the 43 U.S.-based

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Gust

AUGUST 22, 2012

Giza was just a one-day side trip on my main mission: Visiting a tech startup tucked away in Alexandria, a bustling seaside metropolis of 5 million. Building a startup is one of the riskiest endeavors to begin with, so predictability is key, even in the face of known adversity.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Capturing market space versus Russia, for instance. One of the subordinate functional areas is cybersecurity, which is a foundational aspect of any acquisition that cannot be traded for cost, schedule or performance. We are tracking 37 initiatives across DOD focused on four main areas. Designing in exploitability early in programs.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 14, 2021

At the same time, Russia has reemerged as a regional power. For example, our requirements and acquisition systems are driven by a 70-year-old model predicated on predicting the future (both threats and technology) and delivering solutions decades out; and optimized for lifecycle costs, not rapid innovation or disposable systems.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

VC investors rely heavily on referrals, but what should a non US startup do when looking to raise funding in Silicon Valley? I found a question on Quora that relates to European startups, but found that some of the advice may be very relevant to Israeli startups as well. It’s not a dot, it’s a line.

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The Next Web

MARCH 3, 2014

When I started my startup journey two years ago, one word came to my mind whenever I thought about marketing: liars. As time passed and I took on the marketing role for my startup (while everybody else was busy coding), I started to see marketers differently. When you’re marketing a startup, you don’t have a fat marketing budget.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

It’s worth considering the reasons why nations decline — they lose allies, a decline in economic power (the UK in the 20th Century); they lose interest in global affairs (China in the 15th Century); internal/civil conflicts (Russia in the 20th Century.) neglected strategic threats from China and a rearmed Russia. Slides 35-37.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 16, 2019

Some people like to own gold in the form of coins, bars, and jewelry, but factor in storage costs. Platinum is a rare metal and the cost of mining it is far higher than that of gold. 75% of the world’s platinum comes from South Africa, with the rest coming from Russia, Zimbabwe, Canada, and the US.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 17, 2015

This analogy is particularly relevant to startups and SMEs, where the decision to adopt a certain technological product or service, could make all the difference between climbing higher than the competition or lagging behind. Ambarish Gupta is the CEO and Founder of Gurgaon-based cloud telephony startup Knowlarity Communications.

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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. Exploring New Areas. Possible Barriers to Success in Oil and Gas Drilling.

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David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

Why are more US VCs investing in international startups? While fundraising of US VCs has dropped slowly as a percentage of global limited partner allocations over the last decade, non-US startups are receiving a more rapidly increasing percentage of that money. Source: NVCA, Pitchbook. Enterprise Ireland is another example.

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David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

Why are more US VCs investing in international startups? While fundraising of US VCs has dropped slowly as a percentage of global limited partner allocations over the last decade, non-US startups are receiving a more rapidly increasing percentage of that money. Source: NVCA, Pitchbook. Enterprise Ireland is another example.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

billion Iridium was one of the largest, boldest and audacious startup bets ever made. First, the company bought a fleet of 15 rockets from Russia, the U.S. It crashed back down to earth as one of the largest startup failures on record. Cell phone handsets were the size of a lunch box and cost thousand of dollars.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

” And for a startup that’s like, “What do you mean? Rather just rewarding this rigorous, we only care about cost and schedule. You’ve got incent program managers if you can get better performance at lower costs, you got to be a disrupter yourself. And you have to incent that. It’s a very important area.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 28, 2010

FIVE ISRAELI STARTUPS SHINE IN INNOVATION TOP 100. The lightweight wind turbine is said to reduce installation costs by at least 50 percent. The volume of trade (excluding diamonds) between Israel and Russia in the first nine months of 2010 totalled $711 million. Haifa is also home to. TEVA CEO RANKED 20TH ON FORTUNE LIST.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Over the next 5-6 posts I’ll outline the process which I’ve now followed at several corporates and which I’ve honed to work with my own startup, Aroxo. How much will this cost? But producing a professional and slick product costs money. Award contract - Negotiate a software development contract.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 24, 2012

In the past few years just about every country with a high-speed network and a national budget has hatched a “startup ecosystem.” First Choice For Second-Tier Startups? But if you’ve got a startup that is not quite as hot as a Dropbox or an Instagram, there could be a good reason to consider one of those other startup ecosystems.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 1, 2012

One of the most important things we do with The Lean Startup Conference is make a livestream of the plenary talks available for free to groups around the world, supporting entrepreneurship communities everywhere. Most simulcasts are free, although some charge a small fee to cover their costs.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

It’s why all of you operated so well in the unpredictable environment that all startups face.” What makes an individual a great startup founder (versus an employee) has been something I had been thinking about since I retired. He welcomed us by screaming, “Do you know how much it costs every minute this line is down.&#

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Buildings can reduce their costs by reporting energy use actively. Improving grid management and optimizing power production through different sources and distributed energy production are critical to cost management. Skolkovo Innovation City in Russia has been recognized as an attempt to emulate Silicon Valley. By Brian Neese.

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murkygrey.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The big guys have been doing it for years and recently, smaller and smaller startups are incorporating offshore development into their plans. As a development manager I have, over the years, utilized development teams in India, China and Russia. They are smart, talented, easy to find and hire and they work for very reasonable pay.

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 5, 2015

In addition, the competition for and the cost of hiring people, especially in the San Francisco Bay Area, has gone up dramatically. So while the infrastructure cost and startup costs may have declined, the operating costs have increased. Well, enter the Pre-Seed round, where the startup raises closer to $500K.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

The benefit of the hammer and the dance is lower, and also the cost is higher." He worked at an education startup here in Silicon Valley. And in fact, The Lean Startup is very much that. It's focused on how to learn as fast as possible with as little cost as possible. My group of friends from Russia sent this to me.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 28, 2016

election cycle, the ongoing refugee crisis flowing out of the Middle East, and geopolitical tensions with Russia, and it’s no wonder the Brexit vote’s got the world like… Hold up, you might be saying. For startups and small businesses, these shifts can have a major effect on the trajectory of your company.

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 13, 2010

BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India and China) are the buzz word in business for good reason. The internet has made it possible to have a global work force from launch date, and the same cost advantages that multinationals have had since they started exporting labour to China and other parts of Asia since the 1960’s.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

I founded a startup years ago, and that’s how I started getting a taste of it. The startup didn’t work out, but I found ways to be around it, whether it was on the sales side in Goldman for a few years. How does that translate into advice that you give to your startups? What guidance for your portfolio companies?

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Thomas Clayton has started and run numerous high-tech startups in Silicon Valley. He is currently CEO of Bubbly, a social media startup backed by Sequoia Capital, SingTel Innov8, and JAFCO. The company is one of the largest VC-backed startups in Southeast Asia, having raised over $60 million in funding.

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 20, 2017

My Twitter feed is historically filled with tech snark and startup news but in 2017 I’ve seen a disproportionate number of #Resist House Parties, protest signs and town halls. It costs money to support the Indivisible movement ( if you want to donate, you can here! ). Do you need money?

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 17, 2016

From the perspective of the startup ecosystem, the most important question is whether we continue to allow the free movement of labour from Europe. Impact of Brexit on London’s status as Europe’s premier startup hub. Moreover, the fundamentals in favour of startups remain strong. Trends in venture more generally.

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www.thestartup.eu

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Home RSS About Contact Advertise Partners How to bootstrap a Startup with less than $10k. Entrepreneurs, which by definition are stubborn entities are therefore finding creative and cheap ways to bootstrap their startups. Let’s break down their costs: Logo design: a simple contest on 99designs with a $300 prize.

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