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China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

For the last 10 years China essentially closed its search, media and social network software market to foreign companies with the result that Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Dropbox, and 30,000 other websites were not accessible from China. And they were increasing at an aggregate 33 million IOS and Android activations per month.

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Five case studies you'll see at the Lean Startup Conference 2015

Startup Lessons Learned

It all started with a small group of founders and product enthusiasts who self-aggregated into an online community. Prerna began her startup journey after leaving a job as a management consultant, and launched Yaari, a youth-oriented social network in India. She wants to disrupt Hollywood with the Lean Startup method.

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China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

For the last 10 years China essentially closed its search, media and social network software market to foreign companies with the result that Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Dropbox, and 30,000 other websites were not accessible from China. And they were increasing at an aggregate 33 million IOS and Android activations per month.

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Never Mind the Valley: Here's Paris

ReadWriteStart

The French government has translated the JEI program into English as the Young Entrepreneurs Initiative , an annual competition run by the French Embassy to the US. France is not a socialist country, but it's a socialized country, and the French get a lot in return for the taxes they pay. The Big Players. The Funding.

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Hacking for Defense (H4D) @ Stanford – Week 3

Steve Blank

They refined their understanding of Spearfishing vs. catfishing finding that Spearfishing is the number 1 source of malware, cyber attacks, and network threats. Automated data aggregation (i.e. Sponsor Education – a Network Begins to Form. If you can’t see the Team Fishreel presentation click here. incorporate open source data).

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Hacking for Defense (H4D) @ Stanford – Week 3

Steve Blank

They refined their understanding of Spearfishing vs. catfishing finding that Spearfishing is the number 1 source of malware, cyber attacks, and network threats. Automated data aggregation (i.e. Sponsor Education – a Network Begins to Form. If you can’t see the Team Fishreel presentation click here. incorporate open source data).

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Socialware Launches Social Middleware Platform

Austin Startup

Now, for the first time, enterprises are able to integrate and leverage the public social networks where employees, customers and partners congregate. Social networks continue to become a larger part of our lives — Facebook alone has 400 million users who spend close to an hour a day on the site. .