Feld Thoughts

JULY 31, 2017

The Red Web: The Struggle Between Russia’s Digital Dictators and the New Online Revolutionaries was one of two books I read this weekend (the other was Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness ). The Red Web covers Russia’s history around the Internet starting during the Cold War with a focus on the last twenty years. The post Book: The Red Web: The Struggle Between Russia’s Digital Dictators and the New Online Revolutionaries appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

For many investors and entrepreneurs in the West, doing business in Russia can seem like a step into the unknown. With a little knowledge of some of the key cultural differences and unique properties of the local tech scene, Russia can easily become one of the most attractive tech markets in the world for investors. Russia in numbers. To fully grasp the size of the opportunity Russia offers, let’s start by looking at the numbers.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

How a country values its people (and its future) can sometimes be told by the percentage of the country’s government expenditure that goes towards education.Here’s an infographic that shows you how six different countries – the United States, China, Russia, France, Germany and Japan – compare when it comes to education, in terms of factors such as government expenditure, hours of instruction per year, class size and student/teacher ratios, etc.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 26, 2016

It starts out as the autobiography of Bill Browder and his creation of a massively successful hedge fund ( Hermitage Capital Management ) that was one of the first non-Russian investors in Russia in the mid to late 1990s. Books book browder hermitage capital russia sergei magnitskyAfter the election, I took a break from social media. Prior to this election cycle I rarely read online news and almost never watched news on TV, so that was easy to stop as well.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 26, 2018

Finance Legal insight Technology banks Bitcoin blockchain blogger capital China commercials Community Contract cryptocurrency developer financing Government Innovation Investment legal Magazine Money policy production profit robots Russia software strategy taxesMany Bitcoiners are wondering if the bitcoin can be forbidden. It’s a thorny question that not so many think about. Anything in this world can be outlawed.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Skolkovo Innovation City in Russia has been recognized as an attempt to emulate Silicon Valley. Community Technology air pollution Austin brian neese Center for Technology in Government China CommunityLogiq Concordia University Texas Education GE Digital Gideon Kimbrell greenhouse gas emissions Guangzhou Herman Chandi John Gordon LED lights Mike Zeto online MBA Reykjavik Russia Skolkovo smart cities Texas urban technologySmart cities are a new approach to urban development.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2021

is engaged in great power competition with both China and Russia. All which leads to today’s topic, the other great power – Russia. Michael McFaul, “ How to Contain Putin’s Russia: A Strategy for Countering a Rising Revisionist Power ” Foreign Affairs , 2021.

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deal architect

APRIL 9, 2014

Innovation from around the globe Wagenstandanzeiger – a beauty of data visualization - Germany Daring New Buildings – Azerbaijan Microsoft and the Sochi Olympics – Russia Video Analytics Capital – Macau World Design Capital – S. Africa Innovation is GREAT. Globalization and Technology

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

is now engaged in great power competition with both China and Russia. The third class focused on Russia, which is asserting itself as a great power challenger. We learned how Russia pursues security and economic interests in parallel with its ideological aims.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The third class focused on Russia, which since 2014 has asserted itself as a competing great power. We learned how Russia pursues security and economic interests in parallel with its ideological aims. This article first appeared in West Point’s Modern War Institute.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The third class focused on Russia, which since 2014 has asserted itself as a competing great power. We learned how Russia pursues security and economic interests in parallel with its ideological aims. Where China and/or Russia are making the largest gains with autonomous systems.

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deal architect

JULY 20, 2010

Extract from my new book: As we know, the 1990s were a chaotic time for Russia as the Soviet Union’s centralized, defense - heavy infrastructure was gradually torn down and replaced by decentralized, commercial enterprises. Seth Ravin describes his work

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

neglected strategic threats from China and a rearmed Russia. For 25 years as the sole Superpower, the U.S.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Our national power (our influence and footprint on the world stage) is being challenged and effectively negated by autocratic regimes like China and Russia. penitus cogitare, cito agere – think deeply, act quickly.

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Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2022

At the onset of the war in Ukraine, Russia launched a cyber-attack on Viasat’s KA-SAT satellite, which supplies Internet across Europe, including to Ukraine. Portions of this post previously appeared in War On the Rocks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 30, 2022

including Sergey Brin (Russia) at Google, Elon Musk (South Africa) at Tesla, John W. In my experience as a business advisor and angel investor these days, I seem to more frequently hear from entrepreneurs and business owners with “can’t-fail” or “get-rich-quick” ideas.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

It’s worth considering the reasons why nations decline — they lose allies, a decline in economic power (the UK in the 20th Century); they lose interest in global affairs (China in the 15th Century); internal/civil conflicts (Russia in the 20th Century.)

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 17, 2020

Supported countries are Brazil, India, Japan, Great Britain, Germany, Spain, France, Italy, the Netherlands, South Africa, Ireland, Russia, China, Poland, Hungary, Salvador, Australia, and Canada, as well as the com.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Understandably, having a population higher than Russia and America combined, Latin America also comes with a vast amount of differences between our North American cousins. We in Latin America are the happiest people in the world. We have dominant international soccer teams. We have over half our population using the internet, and some of the highest daily internet usage in the entire world.

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

JUNE 23, 2014

The Louisiana Caviar Company , founded by John Burke, sells its product to customers in an unlikely foreign market: Russia. The Russian market opened up due to efforts to ban caviar from the Caspian Sea in Russia. Louisiana Caviar Company exports 80 percent of its product, with half of its exports going to Russia. [i]. ENTREPRENEURIAL PROFILE : John Burke: Louisiana Caviar Company.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 8, 2021

In addition to the non-nation states (Al-Qaeda and ISIS) we’ve fought for the last two decades, our military now faces “Great Power” competition from China and Russia.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2021

Yet, I find them often jumping to the forefront, with many notable successes , including Elon Musk (South Africa) at Tesla, Sergey Brin (Russia) at Google, and Arianna Huffington (Greece) at the Huffington Post.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Last fall, Russia conducted a cyberattack on the Norwegian parliament. During the Cold War U.S. diplomatic and military alliances existed to defend freedom around the world.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

There are a number of specific areas where these blurred lines led to subpar policies that undermined America’s technological competitiveness and left the country weaker against adversaries like Russia and China.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

It’s consistently being a Russia apologist like David Sacks of Craft Ventures who thinks that the way we could have stopped Russia from attacking Ukraine was to just promise not to let Ukraine join NATO of its own free will, you know, to protect itself from the very thing that is happening right now.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 26, 2012

As I approached the check-in desk, a very gruff Ukrainian customs official looked at my visa to Russia and said, “You cannot travel. Your visa to Russia has already been used. A mad scramble uncovered the problem: when I had changed planes for Kiev back in Moscow they stamped my visa as “entered” so that counted as “visiting” Russia. The Professor can go home to America, but can not go from here to Russia.”

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Next, we’ll discuss the challenge of our National Defense Strategy – we no longer face a single Cold War adversary but potentially five – in what are called the “2+3 threats” (China and Russia plus Iran, North Korea, and non-nation state actors.).

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2021

And with our country focused for two decades on fighting non-nation states – Al-Qaida and Isis – Russia re-armed and China has built weapons that have negated our strengths, matched our military, and threaten democracy around the world. This post previously appeared in Real Clear Defense.

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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. The U.S.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

It’s worth considering the reasons why nations decline — they lose allies, a decline in economic power (the UK in the 20th Century); they lose interest in global affairs (China in the 15th Century); internal/civil conflicts (Russia in the 20th Century.)

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The Magento e-commerce system is not very common in Russia where there are few serious implementations in domestic e-commerce, and there are almost no competent developers either.

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thebarefootvc

MARCH 4, 2022

The unspeakable violence and aggression that Russia has unleashed against Ukraine and its people is the first all out “hot war” invasion in Europe since WWII. Yesterday, Infura, a cloud -based node network for Ethereum, cut off access for wallets in Venezuela and quickly reversed course blaming the outage in code that was implemented to comply with sanctions against Russia.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 7, 2019

Established in 2000 in Russia, the MetaQuotes Software Corporation has arguably revolutionised mobile trading in developed companies across the globe.

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SiliconHills

MARCH 7, 2014

By SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News There were startups from Guatemala and Germany, Malaga, Spain, France, Australia, Russia, Denmark, Sweden and more at the invitation-only SXSW Global Startup Forum at City Hall. In addition to local dignitaries like Austin Mayor Lee Leffingwell and SXSW Interactive Director Hugh Forrest, was a panel of venture […] The post Startups from Around the World at SXSW appeared first on SiliconHills. Austin

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Brandanew

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Coca Cola traps itself between Russia and Ukraine Politics. The cola giant posted a Christmas card showing a beautified map of Russia, as a part of a greeting to Russians. This resulted in the Ukraine embassy showing its concern for the illegally occupied Crimea region by Russia. Brands are closer to their audience with the help of social media. They experiment and try various creative styles to win hearts.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 6, 2016

The Soviet Union had collapsed, yielding a vacuum in which every consumer product could be updated or reimagined; with communist politics phased out, private enterprise had come to Russia for the first time in the country’s contemporary history. It started with snacks. When Simon Dunlop and Victor Frumkin met in their mutual adoptive hometown of Moscow nearly 20 years ago, they hit it off well enough to go into business together.

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The Next Web

JUNE 8, 2015

to the geopolitical (“Consequence of the Russia-Ukraine conflict.”) Thankfully, Autopsy.io isn’t “Uber for hearses”. Rather, it’s a newly-launched site that collects stories of startup failure, with the aim of sharing the lessons learned with the whole community. The great thing about the project – which is growing daily – is the bluntness of founders’ reflections on their shuttered startups, with reasons ranging from the brutally personal (“We were naive idiots.”)

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 14, 2021

At the same time, Russia has reemerged as a regional power.

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SiliconHills

JANUARY 10, 2014

But if you can’t wait that long and you can’t travel to Russia, there’s a solution much closer in Austin. By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News It’s less than a month to go until the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi kicks off. It’s the Austin Startup 2014 Winter Games! The event begins […] The post Austin Startup Games to Showcase Entrepreneurial Athletes appeared first on SiliconHills. Austin Austin Startup Games startups technology

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David Cohen

JANUARY 12, 2021

“ Thoughtful leadership evolution in growing and scaling companies is healthy. It happens in strong, successful, mission-driven companies all the time.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The third class focused on Russia, which since 2014 has asserted itself as a competing great power. We learned how Russia pursues security and economic interests in parallel with its ideological aims. China and Russia have made AI and machine learning national priorities.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 9, 2020

In this session we provided the students with an appreciation of how the United States National Security Strategy arrived at the conclusion that we are in an era of great power competition with Russia and China. Russia at the time showed promising signs of moving closer to democracy.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 13, 2021

With Russia? What are the risks of casting the US relationship with China and/or Russia as a whole-of-government competition? from its focus on counter terrorism to great power competition with Russia and China (Slides 23-27).

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