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Rustam Gilfanov: “The Business Plan Of A Startup Is A Test Of The Idea’s Survival Potential”

YoungUpstarts

Together with IT businessman and investor Rustam Gilfanov, we try to figure out what one needs to take into account when designing a business plan for a startup. Today, this company is the largest software developer for the gaming industry, marketing and finance. To have a breakthrough idea is not enough to launch a startup.

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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 3

Steve Blank

Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed the class to cover how technology will shape all the elements of national power (our influence and footprint on the world stage). John Mearsheimer, “ Why the Ukraine Crisis is the West’s Fault: The Liberal Delusions That Provoked Putin ” Foreign Affairs , 2014. Fall of the USSR.

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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition  – 2022 Wrap Up

Steve Blank

And as we’ve seen in the Ukraine, Russia remains determined to wage a brutal war to play a disruptive role on the world stage. We just wrapped up the second year of our Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition class – now part of our Stanford Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation.

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Supercharge Growth Without Raising Money

YoungUpstarts

My good friends and I, all aged 21, were working on a design inspiration blog and curating content for designers and artists. I always encourage entrepreneurs to get creative with sourcing finance. Things began to get serious in an apartment in 2012. Not a garage like many startups stories but then this is no ordinary company.

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From the Ukraine with Love

Growthink Blog

I recently had the great pleasure of meeting Mr. Vladimir Lempert CEO and founder of Spetztekhosnastka, or “STO”, a plastics design and manufacturing company headquartered in Dniprodzerzhins'k (about 200 miles Southeast of Kiev), in the Ukraine.

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