Reid Hoffman

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

At the time, PayPal was suffering seemingly endless delays in the launch of PayPal Japan. Reid called eight friends with good connections in Japan and asked whom they knew who might be able to help. How you gather, manage, and use information will determine whether you win or lose.”

Japan 78

Japan Technical Cofounder Silicon Valley Houston 78

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Often former government employees, at the level of GS-15 and below, will leave as staffers and return the next day working for large Beltway contractors, working or managing the same programs they previously worked. In some agencies, large contractors seem to “own” sections, offices, organizations, or programs.

Government 308

Government Artificial Inteligence Silicon Valley North Korea 308

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, October 5, 2008 The product managers lament Life is not easy when youre working in an old-fashioned waterfall development process, no matter what role you play. The product manager was clearly struggling to get results from the rest of the team. Lets start with what the product manager does.

San Francisco 158

San Francisco Management Software Review Product 158

Berkonomics

JULY 9, 2020

Real time information is critical to real time decision-making, and increasingly in the modern business world, decisions are made by management without extended meetings or discussion with others. Managers need real time information. An example would be a real time display of the value of the dollar against the yen.

Japan 62

Japan Software Review Metrics Technical Review 62

Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2012

How dare you,” the fab manager said. “We The supplier’s CEO directed his business unit general managers to take a SyncDev workshop. consisted of product manager, hardware-engineering manager, software-engineering manager, applications analyst, and software designer. I explained how we’d manage technical risks.

San Jose 256

San Jose Technical Review Customer Development Software Review 256

VC Cafe

JANUARY 14, 2022

In management positions, women representation is 23.3%. Japan alone tripled its investments in Israeli startups in 2021, reaching $2.9 This includes: Softbank Vision Fund – the with the appointment of former head of Mossad, Yossi Cohen , as partner Blackstone – with $619 billion under management globally.

Technical Review 158

Technical Review Lock-up Period South Korea 158

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, July 9, 2010 Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# theory of management At any given time, something like four percent of the US population is engaged in some form of new-company-creation. But I’m not convinced those labels are right at all.

San Francisco 161

San Francisco Management Founder Lean 161

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. This engineering manager is a smart guy, and very experienced.

Software Review 164

Software Review Engineer Management Technical Review 164

YoungUpstarts

JULY 5, 2020

With projections of steady growth in Canada by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), proactive business managers, executives, and entrepreneurs are moving fast to secure their spot in Canada’s expanding economy. while Europe, China, and Japan take 7%, 4%, and 2%, respectively.

Canada 264

Canada North America Intellectual Property Asia 264

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2012

Andy Grove of Intel fame started making memory chips, but switched to microprocessors with a vengeance when Japan totally undercut his pricing. When McDonald’s was still a small company, Ray Kroc, the CEO, had a penchant for asking a store manager to help him clean up trash in their parking lot.

Technical Review 332

Technical Review Entrepreneur Kentucky Due Diligence 332

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2013

Andy Grove of Intel fame started making memory chips, but switched to microprocessors with a vengeance when Japan totally undercut his pricing. When McDonald’s was still a small company, Ray Kroc, the CEO, had a penchant for asking a store manager to help him clean up trash in their parking lot.

Technical Review 278

Technical Review Entrepreneur Kentucky Due Diligence 278

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, September 11, 2009 The cardinal sin of community management Once you have a product launched, you will the face the joys – and the despair – of a community that grows up around it. Nothing worked, until we finally had one of our community managers start talking to real customers on the phone.

Community 158

Community Management Lean Software Review 158

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 7, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, January 7, 2010 Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? My explicit goal in working with HBR is to foster a dialog between entrepreneurs and more traditional general managers. Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? - Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Without further ado.

San Francisco 119

San Francisco Management Continuous Deployment Lean 119

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 10, 2013

These include preparing and launching one’s business/product, overcoming resistance, using push/pull technology, and managing stakeholders (employees and bosses). Each chapter is written like an assembly of different blog posts on management and entrepreneurial topics. Some of its ideas appear contradictory (e.g.

Technical Review 145

Technical Review Japan Employee Management 145

Steve Blank

JANUARY 14, 2013

Government funding of research started in World War II driven by the needs of the military for weapon systems to defeat Germany and Japan. There they would be tasked to develop military weapons systems and solve military problems to defeat Germany and Japan. The weapons were then manufactured in volume by U.S. corporations.).

Silicon Valley 243

Silicon Valley Government Germany Japan 243

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2022

And aging populations in Europe and Japan will join the retiring baby boomers in the U.S. The result is that every startup company now needs to consider every aspect of management, sales and service on a global basis. Not every international market matters, but some are larger than life. with demands for new products and services.

Global 266

Global North America Intellectual Property Offshore 266

Hearpreneur

AUGUST 21, 2020

The company I admire the most in terms of innovation is Airbnb that managed to entirely shape an industry and change our traveling habits. Without owning any physical rental properties themselves, they managed to become the first place people research when trying to find accommodation for a trip. #2- Airbnb. 3-Complete Eye Safety.

Entrepreneur 149

Entrepreneur St. Louis Technical Review Mobile 149

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 8, 2014

More often than not, it will prove to be almost impossible to consistently be able to manage the device type(s) that your users use to access your mobile app(s). At some point, coherently managing increasing numbers of code-bases becomes an exercise in futility requiring ever higher costs, skills and time.

Mobile 255

Mobile Singapore Australia Application Development 255

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 29, 2014

Akiko Ito – a Japanese social entrepreneur who left her family in Japan to travel the world, was driven to contribute to charitable causes by founding a global NGO, and who adopted a “life is a game” philosophy. The disguised identities of these female protagonists are: 1.

Technical Review 201

Technical Review Leadership Asia Thailand 201

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Andy Grove of Intel fame started making memory chips, but switched to microprocessors with a vengeance when Japan totally undercut his pricing. When McDonald’s was still a small company, Ray Kroc, the CEO, had a penchant for asking a store manager to help him clean up trash in their parking lot.

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Kentucky Due Diligence Japan 120

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 30, 2017

For example, sensors built into a train or stop lights that provide intelligent monitoring and management of traffic should be powerful enough to raise the alarm to nearby fire or police departments based on their analysis of the local surroundings. The architectural design of “things” should consider built-in analysis.

Analytics 100

Analytics Software Review Asia Technical Review 100

Reid Hoffman

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

At the time, PayPal was suffering seemingly endless delays in the launch of PayPal Japan. Reid called eight friends with good connections in Japan and asked whom they knew who might be able to help. How you gather, manage, and use information will determine whether you win or lose.”

Japan 28

Japan Technical Cofounder Silicon Valley Houston 28

VC Cafe

JUNE 1, 2011

The International Institute of Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne, Switzerland, in its 2011 World Competitiveness Yearbook ranked Israel in the 17th place among the world’s 59 leading economies in terms of competitiveness. Japan is the second largest pharmaceutical market in the world, valued at $96 billion in 2010.

Switzerland 79

Switzerland Japan Technical Review 79

Steve Blank

JANUARY 18, 2022

This does not bode well for our treaty allies, Japan, the Philippines, and South Korea. war planners thought about a future war with Japan. Unfortunately for us Japan didn’t adhere to our war plan. The sum of these Chinese offset strategies means that in the South China Sea the U.S. War Plan Orange. In the 1930s U.S.

Agile 369

Agile China Artificial Inteligence Taiwan 369

Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 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. In the last decade Torch managed to break free of China’s state central planning bureaucracies. In these series of 5 posts, I thought I’d share what I learned in China. All the usual caveats apply.

Programming 278

Programming Technical Review SBIR China 278

The Startup Magazine

MAY 19, 2020

They are sold and bought in stock markets such as NASDAQ, New York Stock Exchange, London Stock Exchange, Japan Stock Exchange, etc. These are digital platforms, often run by other entrepreneurs, that provide automated investments and financial planning management by the use of web and mobile apps and requiring little or no human supervision.

Stock 90

Stock Securities and Exchange Commission United Kingdom Technical Review 90

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 20, 2017

Managing household tasks, self-driving cars and trucks and the general automation of tasks that robots can perform significantly faster and more reliably than humans. Jason Bissell is General Manager of Asia Pacific and Japan, Talend and Calvin Hoon is Regional VP for Sales, Asia Pacific for Talend.

Artificial Inteligence 104

Artificial Inteligence Asia Technical Review United States 104

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

To get things rolling, we’ll turn to the industrious nation of Japan. The word kaizen literally means “improvement,” and it’s another word that we’ve borrowed from our Eastern counterparts in China and Japan. Scrum: a flexible way to manage product development. Kanban: a method used to control production.

SCRUM 60

SCRUM Japan China Agile 60

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

It’s for everybody from the cubicle worker to the entrepreneur, expert, startup founder, business professional, and manager.”. Knight finally discloses the story of his titanic rise in this book about his determination to build a business importing low-cost, high-quality shoes from Japan. “My Lost and Founder by Rand Fishkin.

Entrepreneur 65

Entrepreneur Angel Investor Virginia Oregon 65

Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2023

Japan, Italy, and the Soviet Union) made strategic decisions about what types of weapons to build (tanks, airplanes, ships, submarines, artillery, rockets), what was the right mix (aircraft carriers, fighter planes, bombers, light/ medium/ heavy tanks, etc.) now at war with Germany and Japan, the race to build the bomb was on.

Germany 262

Germany Programming Government Engineer 262

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 8, 2016

If you hold multiple passports, research wisely which passport you use to enter a country as some passports will allow you to stay longer, such as Japan which allows a British passport holder to stay in the country 6 months rather than the usual 3 months. VISA run rules change frequently so keep an eye on the latest government updates.

Philippines 100

Philippines Finder Software Review Asia 100

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Bad investors can cause management teams to burn immeasurable calories on wasted efforts and harm companies in vulnerable moments. We always preach the need to build management teams with players of complementary skills and of course we believe in practicing what we preach. Great investors know whom to trust and whom not to.

Partner 150

Partner South Korea Venture Capital Europe 150

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 10, 2017

To manage these new data streams, we are watching new data-focused roles emerging within corporations, such as data analysts, data scientists or data stewards, which are blurring the lines between enterprise data consumers and providers. Digital and mobile applications connect IT systems to the external world.

Government 104

Government Technical Review Asia Japan 104

Women Entrepreneurs Can

APRIL 8, 2022

Taking your business overseas, to a country like Japan, for instance, is the difficult version of establishing a business in your country—a place you are very familiar with. If you are expanding to a country like Japan, you’ll need to hire a cash management service in the country.

Japan 59

Japan United States Salary Hiring 59

Berkonomics

AUGUST 15, 2013

Real time information is critical to real time decision-making, and increasingly in the modern business world, decisions are made by management without extended meetings or discussion with others. And with the rise of modern technology-driven businesses, the same is true of management in the business world.

Japan 73

Japan Software Review Metrics Technical Review 73

The Next Web

AUGUST 22, 2013

It’s key to keep in mind that large insular markets will suck companies in, particularly India, China, and Japan. For example, it’s next to impossible to find a Japanese guy that can manage China and Japan – or vice-versa. Once a market or set of markets is nailed down, plant a flag and grow from there. Do not waver.

Asia 127

Asia China Japan Startup 127

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2019

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. at least I got to visit Japan! Thus, I began my work and my life in Japan. It was 1999 and I had valuable Internet skills.

Japan 253

Japan Chicago Europe South America 253