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China – The Sleeper Awakens (Part 1 of 5)

Steve Blank

This was the China I grew up with – the one where private enterprise was a crime and marketing wasn’t a profession. China has gone from a land-based army to one that can support its territorial claims to the South China Sea and Taiwan with anti-access/area-denial weapons. China Customer Development Technology Venture Capital'

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China – The Sleeper Awakens (Part 1 of 5)

Steve Blank

This was the China I grew up with – the one where private enterprise was a crime and marketing wasn’t a profession. China has gone from a land-based army to one that can support its territorial claims to the South China Sea and Taiwan with anti-access/area-denial weapons. China Customer Development Technology Venture Capital'

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VII: We Fought a War You.

Steve Blank

That same year China fell to the communists under Mao Zedong, and the Nationalist government retreated to Taiwan. In 1949, the Soviets exploded their first nuclear weapon and ended the U.S monopoly on atomic weaponry.

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The Taxonomy of the Lean Startup Pivot

blog.startupsquare.com

2 Comments Tags: Customer Development , lean startup , pivot , Strategy. Having gone through 51 iterations of my mockups and gathered as much as feedback as I could with our primitive alpha, I feel confident about our basic customer problem hypothesis. Market Pivots: - Can we apply the same product / tech to a different market?

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