YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 15, 2017

Agile businesses have moved to the cloud because of its scalability, efficiency and reliability, amongst other benefits. It doesn’t, however, change the fact that firewalls are still only perimeter protection devices and are limited to applying security policies against visible packets that travel through them.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , (videos here ) Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique. Team SeaWatch – Maritime Security in the South China Sea. If you can’t see the SeaWatch 2-minute video click here.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. Ralph Waldo Emerson. This Thanksgiving it might seem that there’s a lot less to be thankful for. One out of ten of Americans are out of work. It may be that all the doomsayers are right. But I don’t think so. What went wrong?

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Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

But then Acme’s partners say to themselves… “Aha, based on our success at early-stage US IT now we can raise a $500M fund that will do late stage investments, and also do cleantech investments, and maybe some in China.”

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The Next Web

MARCH 2, 2014

In the US all the above reasons are relatively minor whereas in China it is clearly the lack of resources that keeps people in the employee status. So you learn to be agile, to take it in your stride, to pivot based on the shortcomings of your competitors. It’s a great life lesson in any case. Changing the mindset.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

Look out China, we’ll advise you into submission! Our socially progressive attitude has helped shape the most creative and agile playing of the global game. For example, the Dutch have whopping 67,000 companies in the “Organizational Advisory” segment. In other words, that’s one advisory or coaching firm per 250 Dutch inhabitants.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MAY 10, 2012

An agile approach with responsive design considers these issues from the start, but will require more upfront wireframing, design and testing that are omitted in the waterfall process. In our agile and responsive process, the design must live on a flexible grid. Responsive Web Design. In Summary. POPULAR TAGS. social media. developers.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2015

They enjoy the same advantages as other SMEs, such as the agility to respond quickly to market changes, a collaborative DNA that fosters innovation, and the absence of the institutional inertia that often plagues larger organizations [7]. In Asia, China provides a case in point.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The Department of Defense has to decide which of these technologies and new weapons will be most important across these five: China, Russia, North Korea, Iran and non-nation states. Todays threats need an agile system that can build incrementally and iteratively, and deliver with speed and urgency. It fails when facing unknowns.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2018

Corporate Agility. Transparency correlates to agility (Does your CEO know how many tests you ran last month?). Example: wechat in China. Be agile, move at the speed of business, don’t hold up product development. Culture of Innovation. Prime was a 6-page memo: inspired by Costco membership model – built as a test.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

borders, start with the same basics: Build strong, loyal customer bases Small businesses often have the agility to adapt quickly to cultural and linguistic nuances. Where does an entrepreneur even start? For entrepreneurs and startups looking to expand beyond U.S.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 4, 2014

Facing continuous disruption from globalization, China, the Internet, the diminished power of brands, changing workforce, etc., Paradoxically, these very KPIs and processes, which make companies efficient, are the root cause of corporations’ inability to be agile, responsive innovators. . This is a big idea. Lessons Learned.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 26, 2022

We may be waiting for 5G in the UK, but China has been studying G6 since 2018 and started properly testing it with the support of its big national telecommunications companies in 2020, according to editors at inc.com. Think of the agility that comes with CAI, etc. Thanks to Kevin Burke, Extension PR ! #7- 7- 6G will rule.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

If you read these quotes, you’d think they were from a CEO who just took over a company facing disruption from agile startups and a changing environment. Instead the focus is on global and rapid maneuver capabilities of smaller, dispersed units to “increase agility, speed, and resiliency. And you’d be right. Since 9/11 the U.S.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

This was our first step in fostering a more agile, responsive and resilient, approach to national security in the 21st century. We’ve created a network of entrepreneurial students who understand the security threats facing the country and engaged them in partnership with islands of innovation in the DOD/IC. Fast forward to today.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

The word kaizen literally means “improvement,” and it’s another word that we’ve borrowed from our Eastern counterparts in China and Japan. Building an agile schedule is an important part of reacting to those variables. Kaizen: a way to improve all functions and all employees. See Also: Want Your Team Engaged? Then Lead Them.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Customer Development, Business Model Design and Agile Development could have changed the outcome. And Iridium would do this without building a single cell tower. With an out-of-this-world business plan. First, the company bought a fleet of 15 rockets from Russia, the U.S. Lessons Learned. Business plans are the leading cause of startup death.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 1, 2010

And sure, there’s a little bit of bull in a china shop in me—but if I didn’t have that, I wouldn’t work nearly as hard, and frankly, I wouldn’t be me. There are user groups, gaming meetups, meetups in security or agile development—lots of places entrepreneurs rarely tread. How about doing what Gilt Groupe did?

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 15, 2024

Despite the clear and present danger of threats from China and elsewhere, there’s no agreement on what types of adversaries we’ll face; how we’ll fight, organize, and train; and what weapons or systems we’ll need for future fights. China fielding naval, space and air assets in unprecedented numbers.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

They helped build the blue collar working class in China and India. In addition, skills training in resilience, agility, etc. And while we gave those policies polite names like globalization and outsourcing, the consequences have wreaked havoc on towns like Janesville.

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Agile VC

MAY 7, 2014

By the late ’90s the economic reforms of Deng Xiaoping had helped propel China into an upward growth trajectory but this was still two years before the term “BRIC” was created. For perspective, China’s entire economy has grown more than 600% since Alibaba was founded. Just How Big Is Alibaba?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 23, 2016

Their size lets them adopt flatter and more agile organizational structures while providing incentives that reward risk-taking and collaboration. Which brings us to the fourth reason it’s harder for large corporations to offer disruptive breakthroughs: startups. Startups are unencumbered by the status quo.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2013

And how the engineering process could be turned Agile. 3) Computer Network Espionage (CNE) – steal everything you can get your hands ( China and RSA’s SecureID breach , hacks of Google and AWS.). with the product built incrementally and iteratively, as students acquire more customer feedback. While the U.S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2019

and China, as thought leaders in this area, so their framework for reinventing your business organization, with some of my own insights, is definitely worth a look: Environment: Fund a group to track market changes. Capability: Focus on customer innovation and agility. These authors are widely recognized, both in the U.S.

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Agile VC

MAY 22, 2014

What we can glean from the S-1 is a qualitative understanding of the monetization of each marketplace, as well as a clearer understanding of revenue from the wholesale part of Alibaba (Alibaba.com/1688) vs the retail parts (Taobao, Tmall, Juhuasuan) and how much comes from China vs non-China (<10% of revenue is non-China).

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Agile VC

MAY 9, 2014

One of the first things that caught my eye when I started reading the Alibaba Group S-1 was a section on page 7 of the filing regarding something called the “Alibaba Partnership” It quickly struck me that the Alibaba Group’s corporate governance in some ways mirrors China’s Politburo.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2017

When each of the other six waves initially arrived, the early adopters were the more agile outliers. Today, China, Russia, North Korea and other countries have locked their citizens behind a great firewall. The same is true for the Internet.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The Department of Defense has to decide which of these technologies and new weapons will be most important across these five: China, Russia, North Korea, Iran and non-nation states. Todays threats need an agile system that can build incrementally and iteratively, and deliver with speed and urgency. It fails when facing unknowns.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 26, 2016

DF-21 and Islands in the South China Sea. Today these potential adversaries are able to harness the power of social networks, encryption, GPS, low-cost drones, 3D printers, simpler design and manufacturing processes, agile and lean methodologies, ubiquitous Internet and smartphones. North Korea. We’re Our Own Worst Enemy.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2013

And how the engineering process could be turned Agile. 3) Computer Network Espionage (CNE) – steal everything you can get your hands ( China and RSA’s SecureID breach , hacks of Google and AWS.). with the product built incrementally and iteratively, as students acquire more customer feedback. While the U.S.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

Panelists include Rebecca Fannin Journalist (author of Silicon Dragon - speaking about women in China), Jen Shelby (VP Client Services, Astia - speaking about women in Europe), and Katy Dickinson, Director (Huawei Technologies - speaking about women in MENA). For more info and to register, click here.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The report came out in 2018, highlighted reliance on foreign suppliers , including China for critical materials such as rare earth elements and microelectronics. For example, China has an 80% market share in rare earth elements, as well. So, the DODs report that we wrote in response to executive order 13806.

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SVPG

DECEMBER 29, 2013

They are typically using stakeholder-driven roadmaps, project-based funding and staffing, heavy use of contractors and outsourcing, waterfall processes (even when they claim they’re Agile), no effective product role, and minimal if any UX design. I could go on, but you get the idea. The amount of waste at these companies is staggering.

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

This was also the period when VC started expanding seriously in emerging markets like India and China, and many LPs put new capital into these OUS funds.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

It is generally accepted that the novel coronavirus, COVID-19 , was first seen in Wuhan, China, during the last days of 2019. It is an agile principle, with an iterative method that gets a product or service to market without spending months or years in product development without consumer approval or disapproval. Invest in your brand.

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Agile VC

MARCH 18, 2012

As a source of real-time content and information, Twitter really has no peer in most global markets (China being the most notable exception where local clones dominate). In all fairness to Twitter, they’ve build a remarkable product and may be on their way to building a remarkable business.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 18, 2022

It may be the hedge we need to deter China in the South China Sea. was fighting Al-Qaeda and ISIS, China built new weapons and developed new operational concepts to negate U.S. The sum of these Chinese offset strategies means that in the South China Sea the U.S. While You Were Out. military strengths. What To Do About It?

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