Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

This post is an update of what we learned about life science distribution channels. Life Science/Health Care distribution channels differ by Category. This weeks topic was distribution channels ; how your product gets from your company to your potential customer segments. Many Distributors in Europe and in Asia.

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Scalable Startup

JANUARY 15, 2015

This discussion began last week and has fostered some great comments and resources… Offshore resources/Europe company for U.S. web development projects. Tom Nora Startup Whisperer, Web Market Development. People in the Philippines or India or eastern europe are very low cost – $7-10/hour.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2016

If you have a software development background like mine, I’m sure you often get questions about when to outsource, versus building the solution in-house. Outsourcing is defined as contracting the work to another company, usually located in a developing country, like India, China, or Eastern Europe.

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Board Effect

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Data Protection and Privacy: Many countries have data protection laws (GDPR in Europe, HIPAA and the California Consumer Privacy Act in the U.S., Develop an incident response plan: Your plan should outline the steps the organization will take if there is a data breach or cyberattack and test it periodically.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Kai has spent years guiding organizations throughout Europe. Kai brings a wealth of experience, guiding organizations throughout Europe. 05:58] What advice do you have for people trying to develop leaders in this new age? [08:04] 02:37] According to your book, what are the most significant truths about the people age? [04:21]

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 27, 2021

As teams become increasingly distributed, video communication is important for both internal alignment and external business development. billion dollar valuation and has raised 170 million dollars in total merely eight months after its launch — making the British company arguably the fastest-growing startup in Europe.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 3, 2017

You cannot look at Europe as one playground. The difference in Europe on the same product is between 8% and 27%. But in Europe, Amazon is only active in 5 of the 51 countries (!!). Distribution. In what countries does my shipper have a local returns address? Market research. And VAT has a big effect. Market places.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 20, 2018

billion people living on Earth, we technically have enough food – it is just not equally distributed (which by no means is an easy problem to solve). And 75% of vaccines in the developing world show signs of freezing, with an estimated one-fourth to one-third of all vaccines which are administered being ineffective.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

A finalist in the Blockchain category , which will pitch on at 9:30 am Sunday, March 10, Knowbella has a mission to create a publicly available scientific ecosystem whereby all the research data and publication development are open and transparent. Compared to the funders in Europe and Asia, U.S. funders significantly lag.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 18, 2011

There is not enough flexibility in them to really embrace change and use creative, innovative and hungry developers to the best of their abilities. Let's face realities here: it's no doubt tempting and cool for many developers to work for Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Facebook or Twitter to name but a few.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 8, 2019

John Fielding played four years of professional hockey in Europe in his youth, then returned home to Canada in 1981 to start his business career. We began IDMD out of a 500 square foot location in Scarborough, Ontario where we distributed promotional items such as coffee mugs, key chains and bottle openers.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Due to the language and culture issues in Europe we opted for a country structure with an MD in each country and local sales, marketing & customers support staff. But this isn’t restricted to distributed teams, multi-country environments or even large companies. We faced it when we were small. Sometimes this is heat.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 23, 2013

It is as if the superrich are like the new royalty and the top 1% are living in mansions like the old castles of kings in the kingdoms that eventually melded into Europe and the U.K. which was about $54 trillion in 2009. Then he compared those results with the reality for 311 million Americans.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Startups are keen on business development and will seek partnerships. The last thing you want when you launch is to tailor to several languages, cultural differences, distribution channels and small blogs and other media. In 2009, business angels invested 160 times more than their counterparts in continental Europe.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 2, 2013

For mobile app developers, the impressive figures are enticing. In this aspect, China’s huge market seems ripe for the taking — and which firms are better-placed to do so than homegrown startups, especially app developers looking to conquer the mobile market? Distribution and cashflow pose challenges in China. billion people.

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Version One Ventures

JULY 1, 2020

The funding will be used for product development and to continue their geographic expansion (more in Europe and eventually Asia). Funding Announcements . Outreach raised a $50 million in a Series F round, valuing the company at $1.33 Shippo announced that it has closed a $30 million Series C after posting 100% growth in 2019. .

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Gust

AUGUST 22, 2012

Or something. ”Yes, but… ” Those who have spent much time in the developing world are likely accustomed to dealing with this sort of frustration on a daily basis. The risk-reward tradeoff in finance should hold true in developing and unstable regions as well. Silicon Arabia has engineers in Russia as well as Egypt.)

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 10, 2023

We suggest that you initially give the children an allowance weekly, and when they get used to it, then put it monthly, because it will be a bit more demanding for them to distribute the money throughout the month. Some children are saving for college, a trip to Europe, a certain course, a car, or their first property.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 15, 2013

Today, the music streaming service has grown to a large user base encompassing the United States and many countries in Europe. Spotify is already the second biggest source of digital music revenue for labels in Europe. In the News Asia digital music Malaysia music distribution music streaming online music Singapore Spotify'

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 16, 2018

One thing led to another, and my husband and I ended up getting an exclusive distribution contract in Canada for a major French brand. After being successful distributing other companies’ products, the next logical move was to create our own–bblüv baby essentials. Thanks to Catherine Obrien, Coaching by Catherine ! #14-

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The Next Web

JUNE 12, 2014

Andrea Boetti is a Business Development Manager at Fortumo, helping web and app developers and digital content merchants build out their monetization strategies for emerging markets. Spending on smartphone content is shifting away from Northern and Western markets and heading South and East. This story continues at The Next Web.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2012

miiCard supports the UK, North America, Western Europe, India, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. Being iterative is not only for software development but equally important in being a startup. miiCard will build the user base directly and through partnering vendors using multi-channel distribution strategy.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

The US market is worth more than $25 billion and Europe is the same. dominated by a few very large incumbents who control much of the distribution or are you going into a market that is “fragmented” where nobody controls the industry. So, let’s start with the basics. ” Are you going into an industry (say, music?)

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JULY 7, 2011

Research and development, sample making, marketing the product and perhaps even handling some of the preliminary sales are some of the stages of expansion. One of our top goals was always to have a New York showroom, especially one who had established relationships with the top accounts from Europe, the Middle East and Russia.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

Before Kraken, I was planning and running public research infrastructure projects across Europe. I’d been experimenting with distributed payments online and couldn't figure out whether to create a business around this or not when Jesse contacted me about a crypto exchange he was building. I also had family in Europe.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

A well-developed compliance program should include clear, written policies distributed to employees and a mechanism for reporting issues and concerns. EU competition law could impact private equity firms that process the personal data of European Union citizens, even if those firms aren’t located in Europe.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2017

Whether you like it or not, or know it or not, you’re coming of age at just that extraordinary time in human development. Within 50 years, books created an information explosion across Europe – 10’s of thousands of titles, and 10’s of millions of copies of books. Let me be honest about my bias. I love technology.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2014

The good news is that corporations have access to resources and capabilities that most startups can only dream of , whether it is free cash flow, a strong brand, a vibrant supply chain, strong distribution, a skilled sales force, and so on. Filed under: Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan , Customer Development.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 29, 2021

Aidan: This may be because of the intangible quality of apps and software: when something isn’t physically manufactured and distributed, it can be difficult to see why it should cost money. Free Versus Paid Dilemma for Developers. Slowly, policies are changing to protect users. Paid email services such as HEY!

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

The mobile phone has transformed billions of lives by providing previously unavailable connectivity, information and economic development (studies have linked a 10% increase in mobile penetration to a 1.2% Spotify came to the the US from Europe this year, and TaskRabbit and Outbrain just raised money to grow beyond the US.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2016

Magdalena : What we missed was capital … We spent three years on developing and actually even structuring deals to buy Internet access companies out of Stanford and out of MIT, and no venture capitalist would give us a penny. I was always curious to find out what the next developments were. Europe had the market cornered.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I’ve always respected his views) and Paul Jozefak , a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures). We discussed European VC, which is rumored to be down by up to 82%. Read more: PaidContent.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2016

Magdalena : What we missed was capital … We spent three years on developing and actually even structuring deals to buy Internet access companies out of Stanford and out of MIT, and no venture capitalist would give us a penny. I was always curious to find out what the next developments were. Europe had the market cornered.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 6, 2012

When you have limited distribution, the costs of distributing media are so prohibitive that only the largest of media producers (and distributors) are relevant. That couldn’t happen without the advent of lower cost production & distribution. This was how companies who produced media became big before the Internet.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 8, 2011

At today's roundtable, we discussed three major trends and opportunities for 2012 and also worked with an entrepreneur from Europe. If you are a content producer or a freemium app or game developer, you would know, instantly, what I am talking about. Social Contacts. Our audience of readers is full of entrepreneurs.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 2, 2010

years as a software developer I decided I wanted a change. I had two goals in mind: I wanted to be even more technical than I already was as a developer (I wanted to work on cutting edge stuff, which back then was the Internet – pre World Wide Web browsers) and I wanted to live & work in Europe. True story.].

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Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Some of the discussions I’ve had with Marcos Galperin , the founder and CEO of Mercado Libre , have helped me understand how the lessons of entrepreneurship differ in developing economies. The small domestic market in Estonia and the fragmented nature of the market in Europe changed from a disadvantage to an advantage for launching Skype.

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