Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

Governments blocking acquisitions, the curtailment of company expansion, more scrutiny on overseas operations of U.S. A concept discussed during that time was “ glasnost ,” a part of the new Russia’s restructuring to provide more openness and transparency in information. That will take a long time to settle.

Technical Review 165

Technical Review Venture Capital Russia China 165

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 13, 2011

I spent the month of September lecturing, and interacting with (literally) thousands of entrepreneurs in two emerging startup markets, Finland and Russia. Finnish private investors don't yet have enough time-in-grade to have developed good pattern recognition skills, and most lack operating backgrounds.

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Finland Venture Capital Government Russia 158

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2016

The show has become my best curator of which books to read (including my favorite of last year, The Accidental Superpower ) and my go to for understanding geopolitics of: Russia, Iran, Pakistan, China, India and of course the US. But they also take on issues in science, technology and management.

Pakistan 150

Pakistan Technical Review Iran Russia 150

Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

We agreed that all her founding CEOs seemed to have the same set of personality traits – tenacious, passionate, relentless, resilient, agile, and comfortable operating in chaos. It’s why all of you operated so well in the unpredictable environment that all startups face.”

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Few, if any, successful businesspeople operate in their nation. For instance, the Caribbean nations permit dual nationals to travel to more than 130 nations, such as the UK, the Schengen Area, Hong Kong, China, Russia, and Singapore. This is why dual citizenship is the easiest way out.

Russia 158

Russia Singapore Global China 158

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The third class focused on Russia, which since 2014 has asserted itself as a competing great power. We learned how Russia pursues security and economic interests in parallel with its ideological aims. His 11 principal directors lay out the technical roadmaps for the DoD and help transition the technologies into operational use.

Artificial Inteligence 397

Artificial Inteligence Russia Technology China 397

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

neglected strategic threats from China and a rearmed Russia. This year we’ve expanded the scope of the class to look beyond just the effect of new technology on weapons and operational concepts. For 25 years as the sole Superpower, the U.S. One can make the case that all of these have/or are happening to the United States.

Technology 418

Technology Russia China Intellectual Property 418

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Having said that you can also find the most narrow-minded people from the U.S – people who talk about wanting to do business in Russia or China without ever visiting these countries. This is potentially a politically sensitive question, but I would say that in parts of the United States people are using technology actively. are idiots.

Leadership 164

Leadership Singapore Finland China 164

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

The third class focused on Russia, which since 2014 has asserted itself as a competing great power. We learned how Russia pursues security and economic interests in parallel with its ideological aims. He was a past Director, Plans and Operations, for Cyber Policy in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Today’s class: Cyber.

Technology 349

Technology Russia Artificial Inteligence United States 349

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Given the tech-centricity of Stanford and Silicon Valley, Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I thought it was natural to design a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. And that has happened to us.

Technology 436

Technology China Russia Silicon Valley 436

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

The company’s early operations were based in Mountain View before it relocated to San Jose, San California in February, 2016. It later opened offices in Dublin, Ireland, Kiev, Ukraine, and St Petersburg, Russia. Wrike was founded by Andrew Filev in 2006.

Management 124

Management San Jose Software Review Ukraine 124

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Our national power (our influence and footprint on the world stage) is being challenged and effectively negated by autocratic regimes like China and Russia. At Stanford, the Gordian Knot Center will sit in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies run by Mike McFaul , ex ambassador to Russia. Marine C orps with just that.

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Security Silicon Valley Russia China 404

VC Cafe

DECEMBER 28, 2010

A light “railway” using high density busses in dedicated traffic lanes is also due to start operating in 2011, and a cable-car connecting the bay area with the academic institutions in the upper part of the city is planned for 2013. Israeli Researchers pursue brain-operated computing. TEVA CEO RANKED 20TH ON FORTUNE LIST.

Israel 87

Israel Technical Review South Korea Mexico 87

Steve Blank

APRIL 19, 2023

is supporting a proxy war with Russia while simultaneously attempting to deter a China cross-strait invasion of Taiwan. Ukraine’s military is not burdened with the DoD’s 65-year-old acquisition process and 20th-century operational concepts. Russia will not defer its future plans for aggression to meet our dates. Today, the U.S.

Ukraine 317

Ukraine China Taiwan Russia 317

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

But winning future conflicts requires more than just adopting new technology; it requires a revolution in thinking about how this technology can be integrated into weapons systems to drive new operational and organizational concepts that change the way we fight. The syllabus for the class is below: Technology, Innovation and Modern War.

Artificial Inteligence 379

Artificial Inteligence Technology North Korea Asia 379

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 5, 2015

For example: what are the implications of Russia having a life expectancy of 59 versus 61 for Bangladesh? Companies need to be creative and find new business models to take advantage of the shifting makeup of their operating countries’ populations.

Mozambique 100

Mozambique Tanzania Ethiopia Bangladesh 100

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Given the tech-centricity of Stanford and Silicon Valley, Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. Institutional inertia is a social problem.

Technology 381

Technology North Korea Silicon Valley Artificial Inteligence 381

ConversionXL

JUNE 24, 2020

“Click fraud can be extremely unsettling for well-to-do publishers and advertisers on search,’ says Grayson Kemper , Content & Editorial Manager for Clutch , “particularly during a time when many businesses are operating with an incredibly tight budget.”.

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PPC IP Idaho Non-Compete 121

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Joe Felter , Mike Brown and I teach the class to: Give our students an appreciation of the challenges and opportunities for the United States in its enduring strategic competition with the People’s Republic of China, Russia and other rivals. Team 1: Precision Match (AI for DoD Operations) Click here to see the presentation.

Technology 288

Technology China Artificial Inteligence Russia 288

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

Massimo Sgrelli, Entrepreneur, angel investor, computer programmer, agrees with Eyal’s suggestion: The best way to attract Silicon Valley investors to your non-US startup is to split your operations keeping R&D in your own country, while moving business and marketing heads in the Valley (and potentially the founders too).

Silicon Valley 104

Silicon Valley Startup Seed Stage Delaware 104

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Given the tech-centricity of Stanford and Silicon Valley, Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I thought it was natural to design a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. Read about all the class sessions here.

Technology 253

Technology China Russia Silicon Valley 253

Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2013

In Russia, President Putin’s office just stopped using PC’s and switched to typewriters. You’d be invisible to all rootkit detection techniques that checks the operating system. Your operating system ensures security of updates by checking downloaded update packages against the signing key.) George Orwell.

Silicon Valley 335

Silicon Valley Russia Security Customer Development 335

paulgraham.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

The constraint between good ideas and growth operates in both directions. 14 ] I once explained this to some founders who had recently arrived from Russia. In Russia they just kill you," they said, and they were only partly joking. The founders cant enrich themselves without also enriching the investors. [ Growth, again.

Startup 111

Startup Technical Review Software Review Acquisition 111

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.). Combine the existing strengths of a company/agency and its business/mission model by acquiring external innovators who can operate at the speed of the disruptors.

China 304

China Government Russia Acquisition 304

Cracking the Code

JULY 5, 2016

If you wonder how to pick your next launch country first, see my earlier post here. ** One of the most important decisions any company of any size will make is how it will successfully launch operations in a new country (the following applies to launching in new cities or states within an existing country).

Italy 59

Italy Technical Review Germany Poland 59

VC Cafe

MAY 12, 2016

Gett – Taxi hailing and deliveries in Israel, Russia and UK (Raised $102M). Stratoscale – Distributed Operating System for data centres (Raised $70M). Personetics – AI-powered Bot providing personalized banking services (Raised $18M). Ctera – Private cloud for corporates (Raised $45M).

Israel 60

Israel Software Review Analytics eCommerce 60

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 25, 2011

Esther was talking about problems and entrepreneurs as far away as Russia. She was talking a lot about how the broader world doesn’t operate how we in Silicon Valley always perceive that it does. She encouraged people to get out and travel, see the world, see how other people live and operate. But then the world changes.

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India New Jersey Silicon Valley France 334

YoungUpstarts

MAY 21, 2014

In its new Connected Countries report , it found that the companies that have managed to do well in the past three years in this part of the world are those that tended to have a global footprint, that is, those who operate both in Asia as well as those outside Asia.

Asia 185

Asia Global South America Russia 185

Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

You start to see weird things like Russia and India are the same. Worldwide Smartphone Sales by Operating System , in thousands. are more clearly visible, and you get a much stronger sense of proportions. Yes, you could see in the table that the US was bigger than China, but the Treemap really brings the comparison home.

Analytics 145

Analytics Sierra Leone Channel Non-Compete 145

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. However, global businesses evaluate a variety of considerations before expanding their operations into a new market. The Bottom Line.

Global 95

Global Brazil Russia Singapore 95

Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

My grandparents immigrated from Russia, Germany, and Austria – there were people in those countries trying really hard to kill them before they managed to immigrate to America. The operation of hidden bias in our cognitive apparatus is a well-documented phenomenon in neuroscience.

Silicon Valley 143

Silicon Valley Austria Arkansas Russia 143

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 25, 2019

Dorian Barak , a China-Israel tech investment expert, said that ‘infrastructure like the new train not only make it faster to reach mainland cities like Dongguan, but also serves as a guidepost for companies seeking to enter or expand their operations in China. It is common knowledge that startups are currently soaring in Russia.

Israel 113

Israel Russia China United Kingdom 113

ReadWriteStart

MAY 14, 2012

On the other hand, operating virtually is no panacea. Operate out of an office space (either your own or shared). The firm’s 53 freelancers and part-timers are now happily collaborating on a huge project, the EuraMedia 2012 summit , while scattered across the United States, the United Kingdom and Russia.

United Kingdom 136

United Kingdom Startup Russia United States 136

Reid Hoffman

MAY 18, 2021

Napoleon failed in Russia because his supply chains failed during the frigid Russian winter. Another area in which I learned lessons from Star Fleet Battles is the importance of operational security and deception. You can’t win a war if you can’t establish and maintain your supply lines.

Cofounder 69

Cofounder Silicon Valley Russia Germany 69

K9 Ventures

JUNE 5, 2015

So while the infrastructure cost and startup costs may have declined, the operating costs have increased. A lot of this capital is coming from non-traditional geographies like China, Russia, Middle East, India. A re-jiggering of deal stages and sizes had begun in 2013. There is too much capital coming into tech investing.

Seed Stage 48

Seed Stage Venture Capital Early Stage Valuation 48

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Given the tech-centricity of Stanford and Silicon Valley, Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. Institutional inertia is a social problem.

Technology 126

Technology North Korea Silicon Valley Artificial Inteligence 126

Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2009

Now we have ditched the cold war triad in the 21st century since the Soviet Union became Russia again and discovered its own style of capitalism.) Now the Soviets had first hand knowledge of how their air defense systems would work against the nuclear armed B-52G and H models in an operational environment.

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