Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. In these series of 5 posts, I thought I’d share what I learned in China. I was only in China for a week so this a cursory view. New Rules for China. All the usual caveats apply. business models.

China 220

China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 220

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2020

Outsourcing is defined as contracting the work to another company, usually located in a developing country, like India, China, or Eastern Europe. For example, it is no secret that software pirating is still very common in China, Vietnam, and other cultures. The same applies to manufacturing and almost any process these days.

Intellectual Property 306

Intellectual Property Non-disclosure Agreement Software Review Technical Review 306

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

But as impressive as its technology is, the Apple’s smartwatch has been a product looking for a solution. Frustrated by the FDA’s 20 th century processes for 21 st century technology, companies hired lobbyists to force a change in the laws that guide the FDA regulations. It’s how China approaches approvals and will allow U.S.

China 67

China Technical Review Software Review Algorithm 67

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

There were two main reasons that I could distill from their kind words of solace: 1) the existing NorCal investor didn’t know me well enough & 2) the new NorCal investor had a good knowledge of and presence in China, which they believed would be critical. I also spent two weeks in China and vowed to make it back frequently.

China 333

China Silicon Valley Software Review Technical Review 333

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

There were two main reasons that I could distill from their kind words of solace: 1) the existing NorCal investor didn’t know me well enough & 2) the new NorCal investor had a good knowledge of and presence in China, which they believed would be critical. I also spent two weeks in China and vowed to make it back frequently.

China 328

China Silicon Valley Software Review Technical Review 328

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2023

Outsourcing is defined as contracting the work to another company, usually located in a developing country, like India, China, or Eastern Europe. For example, it is no secret that software pirating is still very common in China, Vietnam, and other cultures. The same applies to manufacturing and almost any process these days.

Software Review 285

Software Review Technical Review Due Diligence Intellectual Property 285

Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. In these series of 5 posts, I thought I’d share what I learned in China. The previous post described how China built its science and technology infrastructure. All the usual caveats apply.

Programming 179

Programming Technical Review SBIR China 179

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 11, 2019

The answer is simple: China sourcing. Before we can explain what and how sourcing products from China helps and how to choose China sourcing agents, let’s first understand the concept of sourcing itself. How can you find China manufacturing companies with ease? Benefits of China sourcing agents. What is sourcing?

China 147

China B2B Technical Review Search 147

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2023

It has played almost no role in the emergence of current non-US bred startups, including Alibaba in China, Waze from Israel, Paytm in India, and many more. Even here, Elon Musk faced this issue with Tesla, needing a support ecosystem as well as new technology. In effect, Silicon Valley needs to take a more global perspective.

Global 345

Global Silicon Valley Marketing Indonesia 345

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

The technology team disagrees on direction and wants resolutions. He was a really nice and personable guy who had deep domain knowledge in an industry that he’d worked in for 10 years that is in need of technological advancement. I was a bull in a china shop. Your head of sales thinks she should fire somebody.

Entrepreneur 414

Entrepreneur Fractional CTO Technical Review CTO Hire 414

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2014

Outsourcing is defined as contracting the work to another company, usually located in a developing country, like India, China, or Eastern Europe. For example, it is no secret that software pirating is still very common in China, Vietnam, and other cultures. The same applies to manufacturing and almost any process these days.

Intellectual Property 238

Intellectual Property Non-disclosure Agreement Software Review Offshore 238

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2020

It has played almost no role in the emergence of current non-US bred startups, including Alibaba in China, Waze from Israel, Paytm in India, and many more. Even here, Elon Musk faced this issue with Tesla, needing a support ecosystem as well as new technology. In effect, Silicon Valley needs to take a more global perspective.

Silicon Valley 312

Silicon Valley Indonesia Venture Capital Global 312

YoungUpstarts

MAY 12, 2013

My company, Planet Retail , conducted a comprehensive consumer research into e-commerce in 10 key countries, covering mature and emerging markets including China, Japan, India and the USA. Let’s compare the US and China. Almost half of consumers in the US and China use smartphone access for shopping: both countries clock in at 49%.

Singapore 173

Singapore Asia China Technical Review 173

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 13, 2020

A few months after the world discovered the first Coronavirus case in China, a general lockdown has completely changed the lives of billions of people. The two largest markets are the United States and China. by Simone Semprini, CEO & Co-Founder, TourScanner. It was a surreal situation with over one billion people confined at home.

Technical Review 278

Technical Review United States China Cofounder 278

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 16, 2011

The Sleeping Dragon Awakes in China. During the Forum, Cloud Computing was highlighted as the number one technology priority for companies in 2012. For this article, let’s take a look at the challenges facing Cloud adoption that were highlighted during the Forum.

Asia 222

Asia Cloud Software Review China 222

Steve Blank

JANUARY 14, 2013

government has had a robust national science and technology policy, it lacks a national industrial policy; leaving that to private capital. This series of blog posts is my attempt to understand how science and technology policy in the U.S. Science and National Industrial Policy as we face the realities of China and global competition.

Silicon Valley 247

Silicon Valley Government Germany Japan 247

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 16, 2018

by Keiichiro Nozaki, Regional Marketing Architect/Evangelist of Asia Pacific, China, and Japan for F5 Networks. We are now in the midst of the Fourth, characterized by the fusion of technologies that is blurring the lines between physical, digital, and biological worlds. A century ago, we had the industrial revolution.

SMS 164

SMS Japan Asia China 164

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2013

Unfocused entrepreneurs boast that their new technology will generate multiple disruptive products for consumers as well as enterprises around the world. Focus means starting with a problem that is painful, rather than a technology, and showing how you can solve that problem better than anyone else. Solve one problem really well.

Startup 257

Startup Technical Review Angel Investor China 257

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2014

Unfocused entrepreneurs boast that their new technology will generate multiple disruptive products for consumers as well as enterprises around the world. Focus means starting with a problem that is painful, rather than a technology, and showing how you can solve that problem better than anyone else. Solve one problem really well.

Entrepreneur 257

Entrepreneur Technical Review Angel Investor China 257

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 18, 2010

Example: I was recently in China and had three public appearances. I wrote out 3 pages of bullet point notes on paper and delivered a 20-minute speech to a crowd of entrepreneurs (which included the Minister of Technology for China). The first was to do a 5 minute “ignite&# presentation – 5 minutes, 15 slides.

China 374

China Asia Email Technical Review 374

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

And retail, financial services, hotels, the auto industry, taxis, flowers and every inefficient or protected industry out there is being altered by technology changes that change market dynamics and create opportunities for the innovative, the nimble and the risk takers. I believe it’s truly morning in the technology sector.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 4, 2014

Are China and India still the “factory” and “outsourced service provider” of the world? China alone has 143 cities which meet this size. A “China + 1″ Strategy. The old paradigm of manufacturing in China and selling in Europe and US is no longer entirely true.

Technical Review 171

Technical Review United Arab Emirates Saudi Arabia China 171

Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2013

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. In these series of 5 posts, I thought I’d share what I learned in China. I was only in China for a week so this a cursory view. What a long strange trip China has been through.

China 322

China Taiwan Silicon Valley Guam 322

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Just look at the disruptive challenges that businesses face today– globalization, China as a manufacturer, China as a consumer, the Internet, and a steady stream of new startups. But the world you lead will be much different from the one your professors knew or your predecessors managed.

Private Equity 330

Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 330

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

One such theme was “water conservation” and we morphed it into a broader theme of agriculture technology or “ag tech” for short. Apeel Technologies. Apeel is another Ag Tech company that has invented technology to reduce spoilage of fresh produce by extended the shelf life through natural means.

Technical Review 362

Technical Review America United States Partner 362

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

neglected strategic threats from China and a rearmed Russia. Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I are about to start our second year of teaching what was our Technology, Innovation and Modern War class. This year we’ve expanded the scope of the class to look beyond just the effect of new technology on weapons and operational concepts.

Technology 418

Technology Russia China Intellectual Property 418

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

We just had our first week of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. If the past is a prologue, they’ll go off to senior roles in defense, policy and to the companies building new disruptive technologies. neglected strategic threats from China and a rearmed Russia. And that has happened to us.

Technology 436

Technology China Russia Silicon Valley 436

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 22, 2014

Suppliers in the manufacturing, pharmaceutical, technology or professional services space, need to pay special attention, as these industries have above average DSO. A bank wire is not always a convenient mode of payment, especially for customers in China who do not use internet banking. Benchmark the industry DSO. Anthony Coundouris.

Singapore 191

Singapore Asia Management China 191

Version One Ventures

MAY 20, 2020

By reducing the friction for North American companies to find suppliers in China, they’ve been the most successful B2B marketplace to date. If technology makes the transaction “too easy” to complete, then buyers and sellers might wonder why they are giving a percentage of their transaction away and could take their transaction offline.

B2B 213

B2B Vertical Aggregator B2C 213

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 8, 2023

It becomes even more interesting in the world of emerging technologies and the IoT. These new technologies will become an integral part of most e-shops. Most startups are driven by high-end technology, innovations, and agile testing, with the help of which new trends are being born.

eCommerce 185

eCommerce Technical Review Software Review Analytics 185

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 10, 2018

Yes, businesses do not only have the option to import goods from China , they can turn to Qatar as well. Qatar is known for making quality technology along with high end software to help businesses automate processes. Qatar is a country that practices new technology, thus, it also produces the latest machineries.

Qatar 140

Qatar Saudi Arabia UAE Product 140

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. When you begin to peel back the onion some surprising data presents itself.

Los Angeles 376

Los Angeles Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Seattle 376

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2011

The $30 billion trade surplus in advanced technology products that America enjoyed just one decade ago has now become a $56 billion deficit. Both China and Taiwan now provide a 5 year, zero-tax holiday, for semiconductor manufacturers, followed by 5 years at rates as low as 5%. The innovation engine that powered the U.S.

Technical Review 230

Technical Review Taiwan Silicon Valley Ireland 230

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

We just completed the sixth week of our new national security class at Stanford – Technology, Innovation and Great Power Competition. Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed the class to cover how technology will shape the character and employment of all instruments of national power. Class 2 focused on China, the U.S.’s

Artificial Inteligence 397

Artificial Inteligence Russia Technology China 397

Steve Blank

APRIL 19, 2023

is supporting a proxy war with Russia while simultaneously attempting to deter a China cross-strait invasion of Taiwan. China has made the leap to a “whole of nation” approach. Worse, China will learn from and apply the lessons from Russia’s failures in the Ukraine at an ever increasing pace. Today, the U.S. For the U.S.

Ukraine 317

Ukraine China Taiwan Russia 317

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 28, 2015

by Jack Narcotta, Devices Analyst at Technology Business Research. TBR believes Apple is primed for a run of year-to-year growth each quarter in 2015 between 5% and 10%, particularly as its relationships with China’s largest carriers, China Mobile and China Unicom, mature.

China 100

China Technical Review Mobile Revenue 100

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Links to China didn’t slow down the spread of DeepSeek AI who’s open source R1 reasoning model is now available on Azure, GitHub, NVIDIA NIM & Windsurf. Zuckerberg said he plans to increase spending on AI technology to as much as $65 billion this year.

Israel 78

Israel Technical Review Open Source China 78