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Born Global or Die Local – Building a Regional Startup Playbook

Steve Blank

However, most countries don’t have sufficient population to support scale with just their local market and ultimately need to be global players – from day one. I’m in Australia and just spent time with some great entrepreneurs in Melbourne. One of the groups I spoke to was the Australian Sports Technology Network.

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Hacking for Diplomacy – The State Department Takes Notice

Steve Blank

If there was any doubt among the teams about the value of what they’re learning, Blinken put it to rest with a compelling overview of how so many of today’s complex global problems – from stopping Ebola to monitoring cease-fires and improving food security – demand innovative, tech-based solutions. Both are “global commons” problems.

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Hacking for Diplomacy – The State Department Takes Notice

Steve Blank

If there was any doubt among the teams about the value of what they’re learning, Blinken put it to rest with a compelling overview of how so many of today’s complex global problems – from stopping Ebola to monitoring cease-fires and improving food security – demand innovative, tech-based solutions. Both are “global commons” problems.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 38: Ryan Smith and Lane Merrifield

Steve Blank

As CEO, Ryan has grown Qualtrics to one of the fastest-growing technology companies in the world. In the early days of building Qualtrics, Ryan tried giving the product away to entice customers to use it. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. Their goal was to make sophisticated research simple.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 38: Ryan Smith and Lane Merrifield

Steve Blank

As CEO, Ryan has grown Qualtrics to one of the fastest-growing technology companies in the world. In the early days of building Qualtrics, Ryan tried giving the product away to entice customers to use it. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. Their goal was to make sophisticated research simple.

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Lessons Learned: Please teach kids programming, Mr. President

Startup Lessons Learned

That data is completely consonant with the people I know who are successful technologists today, and similar patterns are documented in each recent wave of technology innovation. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Its this second point I want to emphasize. , etc.

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

Instead, techniques like Five Whys teach us to view the entire application and product development team as one integrated system. Once we can see opportunities for truly global efficiency gains, all that remains is to ensure our team actually makes room for those investments. From this holistic viewpoint, we can optimize accordingly.