Reid Hoffman

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Over the past two decades the internet has reshaped our daily lives and the world of business—so it’s not surprising that it’s transforming how companies develop talent. The most successful leaders we know learn in a different way: by tapping into what we call network intelligence. CAMBRIDGE I / ALEJANDRO GUIJARRO.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Other social networking, online marketing, clean-tech and bio-tech companies have fallen out of favor with some investors, fueling speculation regarding the future of the US technology sector. The same is true for Internet services, digital media and most products that involve significant up-front research and development (R&D) costs.

Technical Review 147

Technical Review United States Software Review China 147

Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. 70% of Chinese Internet users are under 30. Internet penetration in Beijing is greater than 70% while it’s less than 25% in Yunnan, Jiangxi, Guizhou and other provinces. All the usual caveats apply.

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China Silicon Valley Intellectual Property Non-Compete 323

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

In 1999 I was in Japan doing a strategy project for the board of directors of Sony. We were looking at all sorts of strategic decisions that Sony was considering, which required analysis and data on broadband networks, Internet portas and mobile handsets/networks.

Investment Bankers 415

Investment Bankers Mobile Software Review Japan 415

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2019

So you need to build a network even outside of your company. It is better to beg for forgiveness than to ask for permission After 5 years in Europe I decided I really wanted to work in Japan. But I was struggling to find somebody to bring me to Japan. It was 1999 and I had valuable Internet skills. Ok, maybe I was.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. 70% of Chinese Internet users are under 30. Internet penetration in Beijing is greater than 70% while it’s less than 25% in Yunnan, Jiangxi, Guizhou and other provinces. All the usual caveats apply.

China 215

China Silicon Valley Intellectual Property Non-Compete 215

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 15, 2021

1- I turned to the internet. Disparaged I turned to the internet, and found two gems: leandomainsearch dot com (my favorite) and domainr dot com. I went on a trip to Japan and came across the most beautiful Doe’s (Deer) from Asia. Having a brand behind a strong title can make all the difference in the world. #1-

Naming 119

Naming Entrepreneur Mexico Cofounder 119

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 15, 2010

Having grown up in Northern California and living near a Japanese family when I was really young, I always had a fascination with Japan and wanted to live there. I had been working on marketing & strategy initiatives for European telcos for the past several years helping them to think through and design Internet offerings.

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San Francisco Europe Japan Switzerland 379

Start Up Blog

APRIL 28, 2011

Un-Social Networking: Martin Lindstrom of Brand Sense says we are suffering a little from digital emptiness. People are doing small scale, networked and highly responsive activities. There are 5 senses, and we still can’t experience 3 of them on the internet – so we must complete the connection / transaction off line….

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Internet Australia Libya Moldova 91

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 8, 2020

Even before Bitcoin became a reality, visionaries like Milton Friedman were predicting the rise of an internet-version of cash, as long ago as 1999. The internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government,” he said at the time. When the internet rules, e-cash is king.

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Iceland Government Internet Bandwidth 140

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 28, 2015

We pored through the rest of the report and checked in with Ryan Bonnici, marketing director at HubSpot Asia Pacific & Japan – who is an experienced digital marketing leader having held roles previously at Salesforce, ExactTarget, Microsoft and Qantas Airways – to explain some of the findings.

Asia 100

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 13, 2013

Google Takes Home Half of Worldwide Mobile Internet Ad Revenues | eMarketer – [link]. “Tesla Motors has no advertising, no ad agency, no CMO, no dealer network.” New 311mph maglev train in Japan passes initial tests – [link]. When Will Desktop Ad Spending Peak? eMarketer – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 95

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 18, 2013

It’s hard to imagine that networking giant Cisco has been in Singapore for 20 years, playing a part in helping Singaporeans get online for the firs time in 1994. “Singapore’s vision is very much aligned with Cisco’s especially when it comes to Internet and education, two of the great equalizers in life.”

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. But what made the overwhelming impression for me was finding an entrepreneurial software cluster on par with the Internet software portion of Silicon Valley. All the usual caveats apply. billion in all deals.

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Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 267

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

Why don't we just put this plan on the internet? I think it was December of 2010, and happened to just be reading that paper on the internet one day and just immediately captivated my attention. I studied computer science also, but when I first read the paper, my thought was, wow, this could be kind of like the internet.

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IPO Cofounder Technical Review Government 113

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 15, 2017

As the second largest metro area in the world, with only Tokyo/Yokohama, Japan topping it, NYC metro now boasts a population totaling over 8.5 As home to Broadway, Times Square and some of the nation’s largest television networks and recording studios of all kinds, people have just come to expect great entertainment in the Big Apple.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

For example, one angel investor reportedly invested in several hundred social networking ventures employing this philosophy. That being said, I do see problems with the conventional wisdom especially in the valley with your technical vision, which then creates economic problems. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

I recently went to a networking event for one of the seed funds that invested in PandoDaily, and I’ve never seen such worry on the faces of the entrepreneurs. Pandora begs Congress to lower Internet music licensing rates. HealthTab acquires Avvo Health to double its doctor network. November 29, 2012. Source App Annie ]. -

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Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 15, 2012

How do consumers access the Internet? #2. How do consumers access the Internet? The part on the right gives you psychographic type segmentation of who is actually using the web, and why… Five segments: Functionals, Aspirers, Knowledge Seekers, Communicators, Influencers, Networkers. Or visit TNS Digital Lifestyles.

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thebarefootvc

OCTOBER 17, 2011

I overviewed the growth of the global internet and penetration, noting that the future of the Web was going to be driven by emerging countries, as mobile connectivity continues to be more ubiquitous and the West is largely penetrated. Globalization of the Internet. conference in NYC, in September 2010.

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Global Internet Web Indonesia 59

www.inc.com

JULY 9, 2010

By Issie Lapowsky | Aug 6, 2010 Share ); Getty Related Articles The New Rules of Hiring Is It Legal To Use Social Network Data When Hiring? They hadnt yet reached out to their massive user network. Or, you could create your own networking events, as Meebo did. Were going to be in Japan. 500|5000 The 2010 Inc.

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Intellectual Property Los Angeles San Francisco New York 55

Growthink Blog

AUGUST 29, 2010

Canada, England, South Korea, Japan, and Uruguay. Entertainments in all their wondrous forms – Movies, Video Games, Social Media and Networks (think LinkedIN, Facebook, Twitter). So from 95%+ U.S. based business in 2008 to where now a global clientele represents more than 30% of our business. And growing. That stuff? Strategies.

Small Business 81

Small Business South Korea South Africa Uruguay 81

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. But what made the overwhelming impression for me was finding an entrepreneurial software cluster on par with the Internet software portion of Silicon Valley. All the usual caveats apply. billion in all deals.

Silicon Valley 159

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 159

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

This was 2004, and we had never even heard of MySpace, let alone had any understanding of social networking. It required hearing customers say it over and over again for us to take a serious look, and eventually to realize that social networking was core to our business. But the early customers all compared it to MySpace.

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San Francisco Customer Lean Continuous Deployment 131

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JULY 7, 2011

Eventually, our biggest client we maintained was the Home Shopping Network (HSN), and we grew that relationship to be one of their top handbag brands. Right after this deal was done, we inked a deal with another distributor in Germany, as well as a distributor in Japan.

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Los Angeles Sales Atlanta New York 78

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

For eBay, this is caused by the incredible network effects of their business (so-called demand-side increasing returns and supply-side increasing returns). This has led to exponential growth. For Neopets, its simply a side-effect of their game-like product design. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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San Francisco CPA SEM CTO Hire 167

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Customers found it confusing and it turned out to be at odds with our fundamental value proposition (which really requires an independant IM network). Unfortunately, positioning our product as an "IM add-on" was a complete mistake. So we had to completely throw that code away, including all of its beatiful tests and specs. Talk about waste.

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Customer Development Engineer San Francisco Developer 131

www.kalzumeus.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

They permitted attackers to execute arbitrary code on virtually ever Ruby on Rails application, without requiring that the application do anything to enable the attack other than “be hooked up to the Internet.” In the worst case, attackers root every unpatched Rails app on the Internet. Was anyone actually compromised?

Security 101

Security Software Review Ruby Startup 101

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

I went to excellent public schools (so-called science magnets) that had computer classes, which meant they had networked computers that I could use. If we network them together, theyll answer each others questions and collaborate on projects we can hardly imagine. No logins, no codes, just raw uncensored internet access.

Programming 143

Programming San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 143

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

Spray files across cheap disks on your network. For tips on how to integrate it into your database and application layers, you can see the tail-end of my JIT Scalability talk. MogileFS - "Distributed (meta) file system. Pay less for storage. No proprietary on-disk file formats." Take a look and let me know what you think.

Open Source 107

Open Source San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean 107

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2013

Over the next few decades, this young cohort would comprise a rising proportion of citizens in Asia (31%-40% in Singapore, Korea, Hong Kong and Japan, and more than 51% in Malaysia, Philippines, India and Indonesia). This will result in stronger networks of interaction and relationships from employees to suppliers to customers.

Technology 152

Technology Singapore Indonesia Asia 152

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2009

From my side, i network with many startups all the time, and i am constantly trying to persuade them to adopt the new age mindset, but its often no easy task. Im also in this for the long term and realise they may need to fail a few times before the message really hits home. Take a look and let me know what you think.

Lean 115

Lean Video San Francisco Continuous Deployment 115

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 18, 2015

million subscribers globally, Netflix may overtake viewer numbers from the major television networks by 2016. The company plans to expand into Japan, China, Portugal, and Spain by the end of the year – marking only the beginning of their international expansion strategy. Netflix is revolutionizing the entertainment industry.

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www.lanceglasser.com

MAY 13, 2012

Thank you Japan. The company and network of suppliers and allies need to have the best technology for solving the customers’ problems. The CTO is not responsible for delivering products every quarter, but if you miss the internet or a similar technical inflection point, fire him.” Attacking the entrenched competitor.

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CTO CTO Hire Technical Review Architecture 40

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

When we became a standalone network, it didnt matter how easy it was to add new networks, since we never did. Worse of all, the plaintext codes we were used to sending were considered non-authoritative, since they could be pulled off a third-party network. It had a pretty good technical design.

Software Review 87

Software Review Design Software San Francisco 87

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Android Advertise Network Blippr iPhone App Mashable France MashDeck Twitter App Mobile Site Social Media Events Twitter Guide Book Facebook Guide Book Partners App Development WordPress Experts MaxCDN Content Delivery Dynect Managed DNS Rackspace Hosting Intridea About Us Submit a Tip!

Developer 73

Developer Software Review PHP Social Media 73

YoungUpstarts

MAY 5, 2016

Technological advancements and the democratizing power of the Internet have allowed retailers to scale up without sacrificing intimacy and personal service. That means engaging and delighting shoppers on mobiles, social media and online channels. . They’re highly personal. They find the right support.

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South Korea Social Media eCommerce Global 100