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Massacre at IBM

Steve Blank

consisted of product manager, hardware-engineering manager, software-engineering manager, applications analyst, and software designer. In December and January we met with ten customers in Korea, Japan, and China. The division was the dominant global player. Changes were minor.

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Why The Future Of US High-Tech Is Bright

YoungUpstarts

Global Demand. The size of the marketplace has ballooned as a result of globalization, and this trend has been particularly good for US technology companies and their workers. Though simple, the reason is often ignored in the heated political debate about globalization and its impact on local jobs. A Borderless Talent Pool.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

Once the railways are built most countries (except for some odd reason the US) start to build better versions of their infrastructure so you get high-speed railway in Japan, Germany, China, France and now even connecting France & The UK. We see big data storage solutions and processing platforms. Deflationary Economics now favors us.

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Election Postscript – That’s Pride Talking

Growthink Blog

In 20 years we will look back at the first few elections of the global Internet age the way we remember the smoky backrooms of elections past. As in where to build that electric car plant, where to put that server farm, where to assemble that team of software engineers. It is the choices that capital makes. This challenge?

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Out of the Crisis #6, helpwithcovid.com

Startup Lessons Learned

29:15) Skills in demand, including design, software engineers, and people to vet volunteers and projects. (32:23) He was an immigrant from Romania, a software engineer, came to the Bay Area, did Y Combinator, started a company, sold it, made connections, and became part of this ecosystem. 27:06) Helpwithcovid's DNA. (27:55)

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Extended Requests for Startups 2025 list

VC Cafe

As we enter 2025, leading investors and accelerators are recalibrating their focus areas to reflect both technological capabilities and urgent global challenges. The Future of Software Engineering: YC believes that while AI can write code, human software engineers will still be needed to manage teams of AI agents that build software.

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Entrepreneur-Friendly Policies (Finally) Showing Promise - But Leadership Required

Seeing Both Sides

In thinking through our investment choices, we should keep asking ourselves, if they had a massive shortage of software engineers, What Would China Do? Coming out of the recent economic crisis, there has been protectionist pressure that threatens to choke off the opportunity for small businesses to expand via global exports.