crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 22, 2012

For example, there are five major markets where Facebook is not the top social network : China, Russia, South Korea, Japan, and Vietnam. While China and Russia are both huge markets, it’s doubtful that their revenue per user will be equal to the revenue per user in Europe or the United States.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

In the 21st century you need a scorecard to keep track of the threats: Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, ISIS in Yemen/Libya/Philippines, Taliban, Al-Qaeda, hackers for hire, etc. The Lean Innovation process is a self-regulating, evidence-based innovation pipeline. That approach doesn’t work anymore.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

I’m teaching my first non-lean start up class in a decade at Stanford next week; Technology, Innovation and Modern War : Keeping America’s Edge in an Era of Great Power Competition. — Why This Course? Bookending the class will be two past secretaries of Defense – Ash Carter and Jim Mattis.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 15, 2020

My grandparents were forced from Russia. You really have to lean in and say, "Okay. There's a product manager at 3M that knows the N95 mask business inside and out, domestically and globally. Wars have been fought. It's either leave or die. My dad and my uncles fought in the World Wars. You can't fall back.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2009

There was a big flap in the press when Secretary of State John Foster Dulles refused to permit Nikita Khrushchev to bring a captured gondola and tour the USA to show what the Government was playing over Russia. The eventual goal of this program would have been to radar-map the Soviet Union.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

It’s our hood alignment station,” the plant manager said proudly. One day, I was at the Ford Wixom auto assembly plant training my replacement and I was at met at the door by an irate plant manager. the manager followed us still yelling. These damn models weren’t designed right so we’re fixing them on the line.”

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David Teten

MARCH 5, 2021

based founders, 35 were white* American; four were white immigrant/first generation, from France, Ukraine, Russia and Iran; and four were Indian immigrant/first generation. Thanks to Janet Bannister, Managing Partner, Real Ventures , and Erika Cramer , Co-Managing Member, How Women Invest, for thoughtful comments. Of the 43 U.S.-based

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

So when a fractured world where the media is as politicized as it has ever been, who managed to get this message out? And in fact, The Lean Startup is very much that. My group of friends from Russia sent this to me. His name is Tomas Pueyo. He was not a famous author. He wasn't a media star.

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