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. Venture capital and startups have spent 50 years institutionalizing the rapid delivery of disruptive innovation. government satellite in orbit. In the U.S.,

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 13, 2011

I spent the month of September lecturing, and interacting with (literally) thousands of entrepreneurs in two emerging startup markets, Finland and Russia. I was invited to Finland as part of Stanford's Engineering Technology Venture Program partnership with Aalto University. 9-to-5 Venture Capital.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 3, 2020

But if the second, more realistic camp wins out – one that looks at malign activities of competitor states, like China and Russia, and focuses on defending American influence and liberal values internationally – I think there will be a striking amount of continuity. I think Biden said that the top threat to America was Russia.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 24, 2012

This category would include among others Yandex, Mail.ru, KupiVIP and Avito in Russia as well as Allegro in Poland. Skype is probably the most famous of them, but there are a lot of other examples including Game Insights, Kaspersky and Parallels in Russia, LogMeIn and Prezi in Hungary and Avast and AVG in the Czech Republic.

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Gust

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

As we end 2012, Gust is the official, exclusive platform of virtually every national federation of business angels in the world including the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Scotland, France, Portugal, Spain, Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, India, even China, all in their native languages.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 14, 2021

At the same time, Russia has reemerged as a regional power. Venture capital and startups have institutionalized disruptive innovation. they spend $150 billion a year to fund new ventures that can move with the speed and urgency that the DoD now requires. In the U.S.

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A Crowded Space

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Early on, we would routinely get emails and chats from freelancers in Russia, Ukraine, India, Bangladesh, and the Philippines expressing tremendous thanks. Full Circle My time at oDesk / Upwork directly led to my current venture capital career. That lunch began my career in venture and my focus on marketplace investments.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Besides, there were a limited number of places where I could do my job in venture capital anyway—and while I might be a go to for a pitch from super early stage pre-seed and seed founders looking for quick answers and decisive term sheets in New York City, the reality is that I would be pretty far down the list in the Valley.

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 5, 2015

The Venture Capital industry as a whole does a terrible job of giving things the right name and so we end up keeping the same name, but changing the meaning out from under it. Scaling venture capital breaks it. Venture capital is, and should remain, a boutique industry (See The Venture Boutique , blog post from 2008).

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 3, 2012

Trends In Venture Capital Over The Last 12 Years – [link]. Bad returns be damned: Venture capital fundraising jumps 31 percent in U.S. Bad returns be damned: Venture capital fundraising jumps 31 percent in U.S. Better Execution Will Take Care Of Your Competition – [link]. – [link].

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 26, 2019

Another Jewish grandparent fled Russia in the 1910s. And I’m not the only partner at Foundry Group who feels this way, as my partner Jason Mendelson testified in front of the House of Representatives in 2013 when he was on the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) board about the importance of legal immigration to the U.S.

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VC Cafe

MAY 12, 2016

Gett – Taxi hailing and deliveries in Israel, Russia and UK (Raised $102M). Personetics – AI-powered Bot providing personalized banking services (Raised $18M). Ctera – Private cloud for corporates (Raised $45M). Celeno – Chip for processing home media in high quality (Raised $68M).

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Kinrot Ventures is owned by the AquaAgro venture capital fund and is the only incubator in Israel to innovative water technologies with a portfolio of 12 water companies. The volume of trade (excluding diamonds) between Israel and Russia in the first nine months of 2010 totalled $711 million. billion in 2010.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2014

Knowing Steve’s fondness for military metaphors, think of the corporate venture as fighting a war on two fronts at the same time. This leads to two key points: Point 1: You have to fight – and win- on two fronts (both outside and inside), in order to succeed in corporate venturing. As Steve would say, this is a big idea.

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Cracking the Code

JULY 5, 2016

Learning from the success of this initiative, I introduced the BlaBlaCar team to companies in Poland and Russia, which have also been very successful acqui-hires. “I was empowered to continue doing what I had been doing, but with a much larger budget and support from a team that shared my same passion.“

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

You think Turkey is going to be eager to allow the movement of capital it can’t track? So however populist the idea of cutting out people from the process may be, I strongly doubt it will replace the role of the existing venture capital ecosystem. We’ll have to see how it all plays out.

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 17, 2016

“Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose” is an old French saying that translates literally as “The more it changes, the more it’s the same thing” Before the Brexit vote there was a lot of debate about the trajectory of the venture capital markets and that has intensified considerably in the last couple of weeks.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 5, 2021

Originally from Ukraine, she spent seven years in Russia. In that group of newly trapped travelers were Maryna Burushkina, her husband, and young son. They had no choice but to stay. Although it was unexpected, Burushkina was no stranger to new environments.

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David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

According to a report by the National Venture Capital Association, 1/3 of all venture-backed publicly traded companies between 2006 and 2012 had at least one foreign-born entrepreneur. More than 40% of the Fortune 500 companies were founded by an immigrant or the child of an immigrant. Companies founded by immigrants.

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David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

According to a report by the National Venture Capital Association, 1/3 of all venture-backed publicly traded companies between 2006 and 2012 had at least one foreign-born entrepreneur. More than 40% of the Fortune 500 companies were founded by an immigrant or the child of an immigrant. Companies founded by immigrants.

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thebarefootvc

OCTOBER 15, 2017

When Facebook automated its ad placement system, they probably did not conceive of a scenario where Russia would influence a US presidential election by buying ads on their platform.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

But the Valley in 1999 was a new world of startups, venture capital, and stock options. We had a good product that worked well in France, so we expanded it across Europe between 2011 and 2014, before moving to a more global scale, launching in Russia, Mexico, and India. It was entirely by accident to be honest!

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 31, 2011

Iway founder and Chief Executive Danny Knafou said the first countries to offer the product would likely be France, Russia and China. See previous coverage of eToro on VC Cafe. eToro raised about $20 million to date, including this round. Macro News.

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

This is well shown by Norway - with a population less than that of Colorado but with arguably the world’s best Athletes Development and Coaching Program, leading the Olympics Medals Count while the US is 5th and Russia 7th. Business is no different.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

Reply Apolinaras Sinkevicius , on May 20, 2009 at 10:48 am Said: Though I had a very stable family with very good parents, I grew up in a country (Lithuania) that was occupied by Russia for 12 years of my life.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

To date, out of 17 companies, HOF Capital has backed 7 founding teams with roots in underrepresented regions: Egypt, Latin America, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Turkey. In addition, HOF has backed 6 companies with roots in Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, India, and Russia. (In

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www.thestartup.eu

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Developers are in Argentina, Ukraine and Russia. Let’s break down their costs: Logo design: a simple contest on 99designs with a $300 prize. 114 submissions and a professional logo in less than a week. Development: using DjangoPeople and Elance a very international team was born. Total cost: $5000. Two months of work and $2500.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Emmanuel Macron during the workshop in Versailles In this context I was invited, together with a large dozen of foreign investors, to participate in a workshop to discuss what France could to do to attract more venture capital from global firms.

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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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Babbling VC

MAY 13, 2010

Money is available for start-ups in Europe and in my opinion, the consolidation of venture capital and the private equity scene is past the worst. Sources of support and capital such as Seedcamp have established themselves. Add Russia to the mix and we’re talking about a real market. Europe is large enough.

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thebarefootvc

JUNE 13, 2010

Technology usage is no longer on the fringe, it is part of most people’s daily life, be it in India, Russia, Abu Dhabhi or Silicon Valley. It is more important than ever to use cross discliplinary approaches to solve problems and arrive at answers faster.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2009

Now we have ditched the cold war triad in the 21st century since the Soviet Union became Russia again and discovered its own style of capitalism.) That was our strategic posture from the ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s, the ’80s, and I think maybe even through the ’90s.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 30, 2017

That probably won't have a positive effect on venture capital returns. I mean, think about it--how well do you think those late 1930's German venture capital vintages did? It's easy to take that for granted, but that's why places like Russia have trouble getting their startup community off the ground.

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