Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2021

This emerging opportunity reflects the urgency of keeping pace with rivals like China and Russia, who are furiously integrating commercial technologies like AI, quantum computing, and unmanned systems into their armed forces. A startup could land a contract worth up to $3 million within months of entering the defense market.

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Cracking the Code

JULY 5, 2016

If you wonder how to pick your next launch country first, see my earlier post here. ** One of the most important decisions any company of any size will make is how it will successfully launch operations in a new country (the following applies to launching in new cities or states within an existing country).

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Having said that you can also find the most narrow-minded people from the U.S – people who talk about wanting to do business in Russia or China without ever visiting these countries. This is potentially a politically sensitive question, but I would say that in parts of the United States people are using technology actively. are idiots.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. You got to create a different operating culture. Today’s topic was The DoD and Modern War.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

Jussi Laakkonen , CEO & founder of Applifie, summarized it well: We recently raised our seed round at Applifier and it was led by a silicon valley seed fund MHS Capital, whose general partner is Mark Sugarman. It doesn’t come naturally to many European founders. Read Venture Hacks ( [link] ). And then read it again.

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paulgraham.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

If all companies were essentially similar, but some through luck or the efforts of their founders ended up growing very fast, we wouldnt need a separate word. Google is not just a barbershop whose founders were unusually lucky and hard-working. Whats different about successful founders is that they can see different problems.

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 5, 2015

So while the infrastructure cost and startup costs may have declined, the operating costs have increased. So in this post, I present the epilogue to The New Venture Landscape that highlights my take on what I think the venture landscape looks like today and what the implications are for founders, for GPs and for LPs. The Epilogue.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 17, 2015

by Ambarish Gupta, CEO and founder of Knowlarity Communications. The startup culture is rampant today, especially in emerging national economies like Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. If you operate from a single phone line, you could lose leads, as potential customers who hear a busy tone may call a competitor instead.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 18, 2021

In discussions with founders and investors, as well as interviews , I describe the role that games have played in my career. Napoleon failed in Russia because his supply chains failed during the frigid Russian winter. It’s become a somewhat quirky facet of my public persona: Reid Hoffman, game geek.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2017

With a smart grid, you can improve outage detection, speed of data capture, continuing and disaster recovery, field service operations and overall grid modernization techniques.”. Skolkovo Innovation City in Russia has been recognized as an attempt to emulate Silicon Valley. Smart Transportation.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 14, 2012

On the other hand, operating virtually is no panacea. Operate out of an office space (either your own or shared). The firm’s 53 freelancers and part-timers are now happily collaborating on a huge project, the EuraMedia 2012 summit , while scattered across the United States, the United Kingdom and Russia. Ask the Expert.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Tim Schumann, Founder & CEO, Buddy Ventures , highlights that typically less investment capital is required to get into foreign startups at the same stage of development as a comparable US startup. . Founders’ determination. If you want to start selling abroad, an international founder is an advantage.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

So, think of the typical two founders with a pitch book in a garage. Instead, that’s the sort of pre-series-A investment where companies or founders have visions of where they think there are underserved market needs, and they’re coming up with something super excited to try to solve that. . We’re a crossover fund.

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David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

These are often 100% US-based at inception, but in my experience they are more likely to both open an office abroad and to sell abroad than a company without an immigrant founder. These “Dual Companies”, companies that often keep operational presence in their home countries, raise 30% more funding than purely domestic startups.

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David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

These are often 100% US-based at inception, but in my experience they are more likely to both open an office abroad and to sell abroad than a company without an immigrant founder. These “Dual Companies”, companies that often keep operational presence in their home countries, raise 30% more funding than purely domestic startups.

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Designmantic Blog

MARCH 6, 2018

Here are some of the most interesting facts about female founders as well as startups. She is also the author of Social Media Mastery: A Comprehensive Guide to Strategic Growth and is the founder of “The Authority Matrix”, which is a powerful tool used by Fortune500 executives that utilizes employee advocacy and influence.

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 17, 2016

We know that many of the best founders we see hail from countries within the EU and we want them to continue to come here, and similarly we want our partner companies to continue to easily source talent from the whole continent. Grexit, Russia/Ukraine and terrorism spring to mind as recent examples.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 31, 2011

I’ve posted the question on Quora – and received an interesting answer from Etai Raz, founder of another Groupon clone in Israel named Groupli: It’s all rumors. Iway founder and Chief Executive Danny Knafou said the first countries to offer the product would likely be France, Russia and China. Macro News.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 24, 2020

“Click fraud can be extremely unsettling for well-to-do publishers and advertisers on search,’ says Grayson Kemper , Content & Editorial Manager for Clutch , “particularly during a time when many businesses are operating with an incredibly tight budget.”. Ad Age estimates that $1 out of every $3 spent on PPC is subject to click fraud.

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thebarefootvc

JUNE 13, 2010

Technology usage is no longer on the fringe, it is part of most people’s daily life, be it in India, Russia, Abu Dhabhi or Silicon Valley. Focus is key to successful execution and is why visionary founders with great ideas are often paired with more operational leaders. When we are concentrating our eyes narrow.

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www.thestartup.eu

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Developers are in Argentina, Ukraine and Russia. The founders were tired of having to remember all the precious tips their friend were giving them regarding restaurants, B&Bs, shops, etc. Let’s break down their costs: Logo design: a simple contest on 99designs with a $300 prize. Total cost: $5000. Leggetelo qui. [.]

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 30, 2017

It's no longer just a political issue when you're operating in an environment where the government is threatening the otherwise very stable national platform by which you've built your business on. It's easy to take that for granted, but that's why places like Russia have trouble getting their startup community off the ground.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

That is why I invited the Founder & CEO, Jonah Peretti , to come talk at the 2017 Upfront Summit and make the case himself. And I have been so fascinated by the emotions that BuzzFeed arouses that I asked Jonah if I could do the interview myself. Wasn’t Jonah worried about “platform risks?”

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