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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. business models. Of course “copy” is too strong a word. Management 101.

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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. business models. Of course “copy” is too strong a word. Management 101.

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“I think CEOs that are interested in a future acquisition need to be building relationships or at least awareness with potential buyers at least 2-3 years in advance, especially with strategics. If you’re not on the list, it’s rare for a deal to happen.” Joe Hyrkin on Selling Issuu to Bending Spoons, and More….

Hunter Walker

There is a myth in Silicon Valley that companies are bought not sold. At the time, there were dozens of smallish social networks and community sites. I thinkeveryone building on top of the LLMs today will be well served to pay attention to how this all unfolded with social network and marketplace ecosystems.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 75th Session Spotlights The Midwest

ReadWriteStart

First up, Priyanshu Harshavat, from Evanston, Illinois, presented Socioclean , a service for cleaning up your reputation on social networks. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant, she writes the blog Sramana Mitra On Strategy , and is author of the Entrepreneur Journeys book series and Vision India 2020.

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Are You Putting Your Rock Star Customers To Work?

YoungUpstarts

Some of the most creative technology coming out of Silicon Valley is designed to do exactly that. Then Intel began placing customer content on social networks like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter, as well as other firms’ websites where its buyers were active. You have to make it easy for them to do so.

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From Airbnb to TaskRabbit to Zimride, sharing is becoming big business

www.usatoday.com

Americas new business model: Sharing. Dubbed "collaborative consumption" — or "the sharing economy" — this movement represents the newly cemented intersection of online social networking, mobile technology, the minimalist movement and heightened penny-pinching brought on by lingering economic uncertainties. Game Hunters.

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New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

Steve Blank

The signals are loud and clear : seed and late stage valuations are getting frothy and wacky, and hiring talent in Silicon Valley is the toughest it has been since the dot.com bubble. This next wave of web startups; Social Networks and Mobile Applications, now reached 100’s of millions of customers. Carpe Diem.

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