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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. ” Team 2: Networks. Original Problem Statement: How might we implement a ubiquitous secure global access to the internet in order to help circumvent censorship in authoritarian regimes?

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War  – Wrap Up

Steve Blank

Nations decline when they lose allies, decline in economic power, lose interest in global affairs, experience internal/civil conflicts, or the nation’s military misses disruptive technology transitions and new operational concepts. Today the U.S.

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Global Multichannel Consumer Behaviour (Research/Purchase) Analysis

Occam's Razor

It is a repository of global data that has as its primary purpose to quantify the role of digital in the consumer journey from research to purchase. " Let's look at the actual data by comparing USA and Russia. In Russia, that would mean figuring out how to be "communicators first." Pretty cool context, right?

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Looking Back On Tech, Startups, And VC In 2018

Haystack

Technology is, like water, flowing and seeping into nearly every sector and eventually into most of the global economy. 4/ Global Trade Wars Are For Real. cities flocking to these machines, downloading apps for each network, and paying just a few bucks to get from Point A to B. 1/ Social Network Interference.

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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 8 – Cyber

Steve Blank

-led liberal international order and replace it with its own neo-totalitarian model where China emerges as the dominant regional and global power. The third class focused on Russia, which since 2014 has asserted itself as a competing great power. Today’s class: Cyber. Cyber Attacks / Cyber Warfare. 03, 2014.

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Born Global or Die Local – Building a Regional Startup Playbook

Steve Blank

China, Russia, Brazil, India, Indonesia all meet those criteria. However, most countries don’t have sufficient population to support scale with just their local market and ultimately need to be global players – from day one. One of the groups I spoke to was the Australian Sports Technology Network. Outside the U.S.

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Eastern European Champions & the 4 V’s of Big Data

Cracking the Code

I would categorize these champions in two camps: the “Local Champions” and the “Global Champions”. This category would include among others Yandex, Mail.ru, KupiVIP and Avito in Russia as well as Allegro in Poland. Why Eastern Europe? mobile phone per person for the Top 4 EE countries (vs. in GE, 1.3 in Brazil and 0.8 in GE, 1.3