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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 4- Semiconductors

Steve Blank

In class 1 , we learned that national power is the combination of a country’s diplomacy (soft power and alliances), information/intelligence, military power, economic strength, finance, intelligence, and law enforcement. We learned how Russia pursues security and economic interests in parallel with its ideological aims. 15, 2021.

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The Truth About the Scooter Economy?—?An Insider’s Perspective

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An Insider’s Perspective “Bird Zero” that are custom designed by the company There is a story arc of the electric scooter market that took the world by storm in 2018, was second-guessed late in the year and has quietly re-emerged as a powerful force of growth where few really appreciate the speed and scale of what has happened.

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The future of search is being reinvented with generative AI

VC Cafe

Sure, there is Bing, DuckDuckGo, Ask.com and a few others, but no one comes even near Google in terms of market share or mind share (90. Global search engine market share in May 2023 (source) However, since the introduction of ChatGPT in November 2022, user habits (and perhaps expectations) began to change.

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In a Crisis – An Opportunity For A More Meaningful Life

Steve Blank

Pre-pandemic these coffees were usually about what startup to join or how to find product/market fit. Reddit – search for topics of interest. Sheltering in place during the Covid-19 pandemic, my coffees with current and ex-students (entrepreneurs, as well as employees early in their careers) have gone virtual.

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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

Education Multimodal ability – apps that allow users to “input” questions, topics, or ideas in all forms (audio, image, text, and even video) and get a response in the media type that helps them learn best. Electric Vehicles – Lower battery costs powering adoption mean EV sales could reach 74 million in 2030.

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How to Configure Your Startup Team

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My rationale is simple: everything goes wrong and only great teams can respond to competitors, markets, funding environments, staff departures, PR disasters and the like. And the folks at Startup Grind have been kind enough to invite me to present this morning in Mountain View on the topic. Final startup grind from msuster.

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How is the VC Asset Class Doing?

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If you really like learning about this sort of thing, there are a bunch of places to learn more, but I’d start at OpenLP , which is a great collection of writing on these topics brought together by Beezer Clarkson and our friends at Sapphire Ventures. Based on that metric, the top quartile fund has now distributed 2.03X after 12 years.

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