Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2021

One result of this experiment: the risk for the sons and daughters being sent into harm’s way is no longer evenly distributed across all segments of society. In 1973, near the end of the Vietnam War, the U.S. ended compulsory military service and has since depended on an all-volunteer military.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 8, 2019

Ironically rapid Horizon 3 disruption is most often used not by the market leaders but by the challengers/new entrants (startups, ISIS , China, Russia, etc.). The large organizations used startups who could rapidly build and deliver products for them – by offering something the startups needed – contracts, a distribution platform, or prizes.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2014

China, Russia, Brazil, India, Indonesia all meet those criteria. to understand distribution channel landscape, potential partners and rough cost of customer acquisition. Outside the U.S. Obviously this depends on industry and application.) Identify activities/resources/partners locally and then globally. Get seed funding in Australia.

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Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2013

In Russia, President Putin’s office just stopped using PC’s and switched to typewriters. The microcode is distributed by 1) Intel or by 2) Microsoft integrated into a BIOS or 3) as part of a Windows update. In a time of universal deceit – telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell. What do they know what we don’t?

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Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2014

The good news is that corporations have access to resources and capabilities that most startups can only dream of , whether it is free cash flow, a strong brand, a vibrant supply chain, strong distribution, a skilled sales force, and so on.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 25, 2011

Esther was talking about problems and entrepreneurs as far away as Russia. The next generation takes the baton from their patriarch’s achievements and learn how to do better distribution, how to win over large customers, how to scale manufacturing, how to develop a niche market and be known as best-in-class in that niche.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 27, 2017

The game takes place in a fictional world of anthropomorphic animals in a frigid country much like Russia controlled by a fascist Leader by the name Big Pig. But through communicating well between team members we were able to evenly distribute tasks among ourselves that best suited our strengths.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 14, 2012

The concept of virtual work has many names, from telecommuting and teleworking to distributed companies and remote workers. Lead a distributed workforce, consisting of full- and part-time employees, independent contractors or some combination, all working out of their respective homes.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 6, 2020

My post The Future Of Work Is Distributed received some good comments. ” It’s an important nuance, as there is a big difference between a fully distributed workforce (which the blockchain kids refer to as a “decentralized workforce”) and a multi-location workforce. .”

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Up and Running

MAY 25, 2012

And for coffee distribution, you’ll have to press elbows with Starbucks in Guatemala. When you fly back on weekends, bring some tea cups from China, or whiskey glass from Russia, depending on the alcoholic tendencies of your group. If you decide to produce toilets, sinks and showers, you’ll have to go to Japan. All markets are global.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Improving grid management and optimizing power production through different sources and distributed energy production are critical to cost management. Skolkovo Innovation City in Russia has been recognized as an attempt to emulate Silicon Valley. They save money immediately and pay for themselves within a few years.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

So that’s the big one, obviously, with the geopolitical tensions, not just Russia and Ukraine. We believed this thing would be able to unlock a multi-product distribution and really strengthen the business mode. So inflation is always one where it’s not fun. There can be all kinds of different knock-on effects from it.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2017

Today, China, Russia, North Korea and other countries have locked their citizens behind a great firewall. You’ve been in a university where information distribution in your classroom was not a democracy. The same is true for the Internet. They control what their citizens can see and access. So, What Does This Mean For You?

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Particularly given that both China and Russia are going to be leveraging these technologies in ways that are really counter to our Western values in terms of surveillance systems and without respect for personal privacy and all kinds of things. It’s a very important area.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Strategic plans so carefully developed now look like Napoleon’s disastrous return from his invasion of Russia (see graphic). Even when we have it, the ramp up to production, logistics to distribute, and the issues related to reluctance will slow things down. Like everyone else innovators have been thrown a loop during Covid19.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Israelis are one of the world’s leaders in terms of time spent in social networks, only second to Russia. The graph below shows the top 10 countries in terms of time spent online: It doesn’t end there.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Israelis are one of the world’s leaders in terms of time spent in social networks, only second to Russia. The graph below shows the top 10 countries in terms of time spent online: It doesn’t end there.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Israelis are one of the world’s leaders in terms of time spent in social networks, only second to Russia. The graph below shows the top 10 countries in terms of time spent online: It doesn’t end there.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

based in emerging markets: Russia, China, India. There is an opportunity in ‘related services’ Distribution is a real problem for newly launched sites. By latching on to traffic hubs like Facebook, Apple, Google and Twitter and so on, it is possible for a new site to reduce the distribution risk.

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Andrew Payne

MARCH 8, 2019

They rewrote the rules for channels and distribution, creating new livelihoods for countless authors and small businesses. And while New York state has an economy comparable to Russia, South Korea, OR Canada, Amazon negotiates with them as roughly an equal.

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Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2022

The government buys and distributes commercial images from startups to supplement their own and shares them with Ukraine as part of a broader intelligence-sharing arrangement that the head of Defense Intelligence Agency described as “ revolutionary.” Today, commercial companies have their own satellites providing unclassified imagery.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

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. Our social graphs are locked in Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat. Enter the decentralized Internet.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 12, 2016

And Russia. Distribution of wealth benefits all. If we don’t lead in commerce and trade by expanding products, investing abroad & at home and lowering the costs of goods — somebody else will. And they will eat our lunch. And that somebody is China. Our startups can be “winner take most” but our societies need not be.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 3, 2020

But if the second, more realistic camp wins out – one that looks at malign activities of competitor states, like China and Russia, and focuses on defending American influence and liberal values internationally – I think there will be a striking amount of continuity. I think Biden said that the top threat to America was Russia.

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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Remember when Trump asked Russia to find Hillary Clinton’s missing emails a month after his son tried unsuccessfully to get “dirt” on Clinton from Russian nationals during a meeting at Trump Tower? And two, because we want to offer people some new ways to participate in the product’s creation and distribution.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

A few years ago Jonah acquired Ze Frank’s video production company and the two of them have really built an enormous video production & distribution business. I usually think of these (decisions) through the lens of my employees and because we create native advertising we’re often producing the content and distributing it.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

So I think the most interesting aspect of this article is how just mind-blowing that distribution is. My group of friends from Russia sent this to me. I think that addressable market is probably, maybe, in the tens of millions, maybe hundreds but definitely not in the billions. I've received this from three different sources."

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 20, 2017

What does Indivisible “HQ” provide to these groups and is there a tension between a centrally managed message versus distributed action? HW: I see lots of local Indivisible groups. EL: All of our work here at the national level comes down to one truth that we’re really proud of: we are not the leaders of this movement.

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