Venture Chronicles

MARCH 17, 2010

I don’t believe it is surprising to assert that growth in China to date has come independent of any investments in technology made by the government or business. When you visit a mid sized manufacturer, say 1-2k employees, what you will find is a networked PC environment rather than a server based environment.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 7, 2012

Q: What role can, or should, government play in helping create the next Silicon Valley? Even if you remove legal barriers between people and allow them to interact, they are still separated by distances caused by geography, lack of trust, inefficient social networks and differences in culture and language.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 29, 2016

For twenty years, OFM has provided affordable, quality furniture through a dealer network to businesses, government, health care and educational facilities offering the latest concepts and designs in the furniture industry. The plan worked and the company is still known for its fast shipping.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

You succeed in convincing one company and a government to adopt computers and learn to code much faster than their competitors /adversaries. These technologies will transform businesses and government agencies. Neural networks make up the backbone of deep learning. They’d steamroll everyone.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 17, 2020

Zoom went from 10 million users at the end of 2019 to 200 million at the end of March – all in a matter of three months (though its worth saying that its also seen a number of organisations and governments ban its use in recent days over security concerns). Patreon has seen a surge in registrations. In Korea it’s a popular thing.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

government is ill-equipped to deal with the growing number of national security challenges that exist at the intersection of commercial and defense technology. Yet it remains unclear who in the government now sets policy for — or has final say over — issues that cross the boundaries between academia, defense, commerce, and diplomacy.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

This “whole of government approach” is known by the acronym DIME -FIL. is dependent on TSMC , located in Taiwan, for its most advanced logic chips. This is problematic as China claims Taiwan is a province of China. Gamechanger uses AI to tackle a problem only a government could create. Class 2 focused on China, the U.S.’s

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2020

The United States just did this to China by limiting Huawei’s ability to outsource its in-house chip designs for manufacture by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), a Taiwanese chip foundry. The committee found that Huawei could not or would not explain its relationship with the Chinese government and did not comply with U.S.

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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." What did Taiwan do? would be in a very different place than we are today.

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