Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 25, 2011

Esther was talking about problems and entrepreneurs as far away as Russia. A local government official was willing to go and look for our equipment personally, but it would cost money. I remember once sitting on a panel with Esther Dyson who is one of the most travelled and broad-experienced technologist I know. As was Shel Israel.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 31, 2017

The Red Web: The Struggle Between Russia’s Digital Dictators and the New Online Revolutionaries was one of two books I read this weekend (the other was Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness ). There is now a long history of governments trying to control the Internet. It was outstanding.

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Globalization is the most significant challenge facing multinational firms today, especially in the emerging markets of Russia, Brazil, China, and Mexico. Emerging market governments often implement measures that support industrialization and prompt economic expansion. Its domestic economy expanded by 0.6% The Bottom Line.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 15, 2020

Someone would put a radio next to it in Bloomington and we were like, "This internet thing has got to have a better way." My grandparents were forced from Russia. ER : A lot of folks I've been talking to about this, they're not accustomed to asking the government to help and it feels a little weird. Wars have been fought.

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VC Cafe

MAY 2, 2023

It was a glimpse and live demo of some of the features coming to ChatGPT in the next few months including the plugins integration, that connects ChatGPT to the Internet, data visualisation and graph creation with code interpreter and more. I recommend you watch it (video of the talk embedded below).

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2009

The Cold War After World War II ended, our wartime ally the Soviet Union kept its army in Eastern Europe and forcibly installed Communist governments in its occupied territories. That same year China fell to the communists under Mao Zedong, and the Nationalist government retreated to Taiwan. Meanwhile the U.S. Reply Nelson A.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 22, 2024

Project ‘Sfera’ is a recent example from Russia. On the bright side, there’s at least awareness to these risks by governments, but will they know to strike the balance between innovation, progress and regulation? Time will tell.

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Board Effect

APRIL 7, 2020

The general public is on a constant search for updated information on the issue and the internet is the first place they’re looking to find it. There are a good number of hackers lurking in cyberspace that have the backing of their governments —namely in China, North Korea, and Russia.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 14, 2013

On the Internet, I would add new social networking sites, and new matchmaking sites. Dependent on government regulations. If your business model is dependent on government approvals, that can take a long time, or require political connections. These include food service, retail, consulting, work at home, and telemarketing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2011

On the Internet, I would add new social networking sites, and new matchmaking sites. Dependent on government regulations. If your business model is dependent on government approvals, that can take a long time, or require political connections. These include food service, retail, consulting, work at home, and telemarketing.

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Designmantic Blog

MARCH 6, 2018

If there is one person who is able to provide creative solutions to complicated problems for governments, corporations and NFOs, it is definitely Holly Ransom. She initially started out as professional circus juggler in Russia after dropping out of school but soon turned to acting and video-making when she discovered YouTube.

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Gust

JANUARY 6, 2013

On the Internet, I would add new social networking sites, and new matchmaking sites. Dependent on government regulations. If your business model is dependent on government approvals, that can take a long time, or require political connections. These include food service, retail, consulting, work at home, and telemarketing.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2017

I was present at the creation of the first microprocessors, participated in the PC revolution, built video games, and shipped software on the first Internet browsers. Written language enabled the creation of large societies and with them, governments. Our better angels soared as printed books became the Internet of the Renaissance.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

On the Internet, I would add new social networking sites, and new matchmaking sites. Dependent on government regulations. If your business model is dependent on government approvals, that can take a long time, or require political connections. These include food service, retail, consulting, work at home, and telemarketing.

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Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2022

For decades, satellites that took detailed pictures of Earth were only available to governments and the high-resolution images were classified. government satellite in orbit. At the onset of the war in Ukraine, Russia launched a cyber-attack on Viasat’s KA-SAT satellite, which supplies Internet across Europe, including to Ukraine.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 26, 2023

If there’s one thing that everyone can agree on with regards to the future of TikTok in the United States, it is that congressional leaders have embarrassed themselves during the questioning of TikTok’s US CEO as the government considers whether or not to ban the popular app. From questions like, “Does TikTok access my home wifi network?”

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

In more than a decade of writing about the Internet and tech-enabled businesses I’ve learned that mobs don’t do nuance well. If you read the headlines or talk with zealous friends you may well think cryptocurrencies are either our savior from bureaucratic, ossified governments or are purely speculative Ponzi schemes.

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 29, 2023

We understand its potential, we anticipate its use, yet governments appear largely indifferent to its probable role in election campaigns. Historically, election interference has been a costly and challenging endeavour, typically orchestrated by rogue states like Russia, China, and North Korea. —- Keep Thinking, Steve.

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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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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

And then, once that curve is low enough, governments can dance, testing and tracking cases until the virus is eradicated or we develop a working vaccine. They didn't have experience buying bulk from the government things like masks or ventilators." Had we been able to apply this strategy simultaneously nationwide, the U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

I personally experienced the even more subversive side of DIGG when I learned that groups of people were actually demanding money to get stories on the DIGG homepage and I, the naive believer in online democracy and good intentions of people, learned about the black hat and gray hat monetization of the Internet. Video is the new HTML.”

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