The Next Web

OCTOBER 26, 2013

For us, the opportunity is not about taking market share from other players, it’s really about expanding the awareness of online work and hiring these virtual global teams as an alternative to traditional way of recruiting or building a company,” he said. Who needs freelancers?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2014

But if you want to build a scalable startup you need to be asking how you can you get enough customers/users/payers to build a business that can grow revenues past several $100M/year. China, Russia, Brazil, India, Indonesia all meet those criteria. Born Global or Die Local. Your country/industry needs a “go global” playbook.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Throughout the 1990s, we were focused on how to integrate China into the global system so that it would become a responsible stakeholder. I’ve got to have access to recurring revenue to survive until then.” I’ve extracted a few of Michèle’s key insights and I urge you to read the entire transcript here and watch the video.

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David Teten

MARCH 5, 2021

We reviewed CB Insights’ global list of “40 of the Best VC Bets of all Time.” based founders, 35 were white* American; four were white immigrant/first generation, from France, Ukraine, Russia and Iran; and four were Indian immigrant/first generation. Well, we learn to invest exclusively in men, preferably white or Asian. .

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

These standards allowed global collaboration and expanded the boundaries of trade. For example, distribution to find new apps in a mobile Internet is tightly locked down by the oligopoly of Apple and Google. Distribution of media is tightly controlled by YouTube, Netflix, Facebook, Amazon and a handful of others.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

billion and revenues likely exceeding $250 million (Wikipedia lists 2015 revenue at $167 million). Jonah said that 50% of BuzzFeed’s revenue now comes from video and the pace of this change really surprised him. I asked Jonah about his started position in photos, lists, GIFs and text and where he thought video fit in.

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