Steve Blank

JANUARY 5, 2023

Final Problem Statement: How can we create an open, free Internet and maintain effective lines of communication in Taiwan in preparation for a potential invasion? Original Problem Statement: How might we implement a ubiquitous secure global access to the internet in order to help circumvent censorship in authoritarian regimes?

Technical Review 376

Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Technology China 376

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

dependence on TSMC in Taiwan, for its most advanced logic chips. This is problematic as China claims Taiwan is a province of China. The fourth class shifted our focus to the impact commercial technologies have on the instruments of national power (DIME-FIL). The first technology we examined was semiconductors, and the U.S.

Technology 348

Technology Russia Artificial Inteligence United States 348

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

dependence on TSMC in Taiwan, for its most advanced logic chips. This is problematic as China claims Taiwan is a province of China. The fourth class shifted our focus to the impact commercial technologies have on the instruments of national power (DIME-FIL). The first technology we examined were semiconductors, and the U.S.

Artificial Inteligence 395

Artificial Inteligence Russia Technology China 395

YoungUpstarts

MAY 18, 2014

When Taiwan-based phone maker HTC launched their flagship HTC One early last year, it was touted as the device that would help pull the company out of its doldrums. The company probably hoped that the HTC One would spearhead its challenge in a mobile phone market dominated by Apple’s iPhone and an Android market dominated by Samsung.

Technical Review 168

Technical Review Taiwan Audio New York 168

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 6, 2012

Dunkle and friend Mitch Gordon, 33, started their online travel community business in 2009 after they met teaching English in Taiwan, and realized there was a clear gap in quality online information about various overseas programs (teach, study, volunteer, etc.). We started work on the project in Taiwan before relocating to Berkeley, Calif.,

Taiwan 144

Taiwan Technical Support Viral Partner 144

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2011

Both China and Taiwan now provide a 5 year, zero-tax holiday, for semiconductor manufacturers, followed by 5 years at rates as low as 5%. That’s 42,400 factories, including 15 semiconductor plants, and 12 million lost jobs. We now produce only 14% of the world’s supply of semiconductors, and even less of other things.

Technical Review 230

Technical Review Taiwan Silicon Valley Ireland 230

Mucker Lab

AUGUST 27, 2014

Almost 30 years ago, my father decided to uproot the entire family from Taiwan to the United States so that his academically “inconsistent” son could have an education tolerant and perhaps even encouraging of his idiosyncrasies.

Los Angeles 138

Los Angeles Southern California Silicon Valley Technical Review 138

Steve Blank

JANUARY 18, 2022

They converted reefs in international waters into airbases, creating unsinkable aircraft carriers that extend the range of their aircraft and are armed with surface to air missiles make it dangerous to approach China’s mainland and Taiwan. What To Do About It?

Agile 406

Agile China Artificial Inteligence Taiwan 406

Transformify

JANUARY 14, 2020

Despite being based in North Carolina, Resume Genius has full-time staff working in diverse locations such as Britain, Taiwan, and Poland. Do remote working arrangements allow you to tap into a diverse talent pool given that employees are expected to work in-office most of the time?

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North Carolina Poland Taiwan Vietnam 103

Mucker Lab

JULY 7, 2016

Unique Business News , a satellite cable news show based out of Taiwan, stopped by Mucker’s offices recently as part of a segment on Silicon Beach. Reporter : Coming from Taiwan, William Hsu is the Co-founder and Partner of Mucker Capital. Gradually, LA has become a big ecosystem for tech startups. The Mucker Interview.

Taiwan 84

Taiwan Los Angeles Silicon Valley United States 84

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 28, 2015

MasterCard’s Index – which covers Australia, New Zealand, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam, India, Bangladesh, and Myanmar – calculates an aggregate score for each country based on three components: basic money management, financial planning and investment.

Asia 100

Asia Taiwan South Korea Myanmar 100

YoungUpstarts

MAY 19, 2013

POP (Taiwan). TopAdmit (Taiwan). WayGo (Taiwan). The 10 pitching startups are: GridMarkets (Malaysia). MathSpace (Australia). MyLegalWhiz (Philippines). NoonSwoon (Thailand). Stamp (Thailand). TanyaDok (Indonesia). TradeHero (Singapore). You can find out more about the 10 pitching startups here.

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Asia Taiwan Thailand Singapore 133

VC Cafe

JANUARY 29, 2024

Supply chain, in particular around chips (which might be impacted severely in case of an escalation in Taiwan), can cause havoc in tech. Global tensions are rising and we’re seeing a lot more scary media articles talking about the possibility of WW3. And I’m excited to be in the market to support them on day one.

Generative AI 172

Generative AI Global Venture Capital Valuation 172

Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2013

China has gone from a land-based army to one that can support its territorial claims to the South China Sea and Taiwan with anti-access/area-denial weapons. Its Second Artillery Corps not only controls China’s ICBMs, but also its short range missiles pointed at Taiwan, Vietnam, Philippines, and U.S. bases in Guam and Okinawa.

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China Taiwan Silicon Valley Guam 322

thebarefootvc

MAY 13, 2019

As if on cue, BTC prices are back over $6000 and not negatively impacted by the news of the Binance hack — Taiwan-based Binance is the largest crypto exchange in the world by volume. Speaking of which, up until this morning, the Binance hack was the biggest news to hit the sector in the past week.

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SEC Taiwan Application Development Community 40

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 16, 2012

On the other hand, the numbers are looking quite well for the former Asian tiger economies of Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan, all of whom have outperformed the United States. And for 2012, the news is bad for the United States – the country’s historically high ranking has fallen considerably over the past few years.

Taiwan 193

Taiwan United States Singapore 193

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

You can think of this as the Taiwan Straits, or near the Korean Peninsula. Autonomous weapons and weapons platforms—aircraft, missiles, unmanned aerial systems (UAS), unmanned ground systems (UGS) and unmanned underwater systems (UUS) are the obvious applications. Below is an illustration of a concept of operations of a battle space.

Artificial Inteligence 353

Artificial Inteligence Technology Taiwan Restful 353

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

If a Singapore company wants to operate in Asia, you simply have to live in Malaysia, China, Taiwan and see how the Singapore company can add value to those consumers. The fact is that you cannot learn to be international without dealing with different people. The cheapest way to get that knowledge is to hire those people into your company.

Leadership 164

Leadership Singapore Finland China 164

The Next Web

JANUARY 25, 2013

Chris came up with the idea for Publicate while working in the LCD manufacturing business in Amsterdam and Taiwan. He has no office, no accommodation and no money, but he will meet some interesting people along the way. So, here’s episode one.

Taiwan 156

Taiwan Startup Video Web 156

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 1, 2013

Other nations made up less than 1% of applications each. Considering that the co-founders wasn’t too sure in 2011 when the incubator started if they could get enough quality raw startups in the Southeast Asia region to make the program work, this number seems astonishing.

Singapore 243

Singapore Programming Asia Incubator 243

Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2013

China has gone from a land-based army to one that can support its territorial claims to the South China Sea and Taiwan with anti-access/area-denial weapons. Its Second Artillery Corps not only controls China’s ICBMs, but also its short range missiles pointed at Taiwan, Vietnam, Philippines, and U.S. bases in Guam and Okinawa.

China 214

China Taiwan Silicon Valley Guam 214

YoungUpstarts

MAY 30, 2013

Evernote Business then came to Asia through Korea and the launch of Yinxiang Biji Business in China earlier this month, but the company has announced that Evernote Business will now be made available in more markets across APAC including Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, and more.

Asia 164

Asia Taiwan Singapore Malaysia 164

YoungUpstarts

JULY 9, 2012

Note: This study was conducted from the responses of some 5,500 Millennials aged 18-28 from across Singapore, the Philippines, Indonesia, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, Russia, India, South Africa and the United Arabs Emirates. For more on the research, you can download the full report , or see this interactive version here.

United Arab Emirates 237

United Arab Emirates Asia South Africa Indonesia 237

YoungUpstarts

JULY 5, 2017

There is a chasm of experience and appreciation between “Made in Taiwan” and “Made by Ty and Juan.” It connects us to our cultures, our ancestors, our neighbors, and even strangers from faraway places, just through placing a single object between our palms. We are connected to the artist, and by extension to greater humanity itself.

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Poland Taiwan Restful Business Model 167

YoungUpstarts

JULY 10, 2012

Offers on car rentals with Hertz , Exclusive deals on digital subscriptions of The Economist in Asia Pacific , and. Discounts on meeting and banquet room rentals at the Sheraton Taipei Hotel.

Programming 159

Programming Asia Taiwan Africa 159

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 15, 2012

The bank aims to launch localized social enterprise banking packages in its other key markets of China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia and Taiwan in 2013.

Singapore 171

Singapore Taiwan Indonesia Asia 171

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 30, 2013

One of those, Taiwan-based ASUS, has capitalized on Intel’s new generation chips to introduce an entire line of computing devices that seek to change the way we work. But not all manufacturers agree that the tablet device need to be constrained in its existing form. Three-In-Ones, Two-In-Ones, and All-In-Ones.

Taiwan 154

Taiwan Mobile Asia Technology 154

Up and Running

OCTOBER 20, 2014

The business, which introduces cultures to kids through books and other products, is run from Tainan, Taiwan. “If One of the biggest reasons that Andrew Bliss, founder of The Adventurous Mailbox, wanted to start his own business was the geographical freedom that came with it.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

But the problem is that these rather fragile devices can get damaged easily.

Singapore 100

Singapore Taiwan Malaysia Mobile 100

SiliconHills

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

startups from Spain, Taiwan and Ireland are […] The post Techstars Cloud Selects 11 Companies to Participate in “Cloud 2016” appeared first on SiliconHills. “We have a group of amazing founders from all over the world,” Blake Yeager, managing director of Techstars Cloud wrote in a blog post. In addition to the U.S.,

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Cloud San Antonio Taiwan Ireland 48

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 25, 2019

The nation quickly managed to transition from an emerging market to a developed market, as opposed to Qatar or Taiwan. If you want to start a business in a specific country, Israel would be a good choice. There is no denying the fact that Israel is a small country, but that does not mean that it does not stand a chance to be prosperous.

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Israel Russia China United Kingdom 113

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2011

In a very recent international bribery case, Alcatel-Lucent decided to pay $137 million to settle charges that it paid millions of dollars in bribes to foreign officials to win and maintain contracts in Costa Rica, Hondurus, Taiwan and Malaysia. The days of a “slap on the wrist” for offenders are gone.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

In July, Rakuten tested a new e-commerce service that lets users in Taiwan search for clothes using photos — reminiscent of what Carousell is doing right now. The app launched in August 2012 and is available as a free download on both iOS and Android platforms. ?

Asia 120

Asia Mobile Singapore Taiwan 120

Venture Chronicles

MARCH 17, 2010

For starters I would establish a base of operations in Mainland with strong local or Taiwanese partnership (never underestimate the influence of Taiwan in businesses operation in China). So what would I do if I were running a mid-sized enterprise software company targeting manufacturing sectors?

China 38

China Taiwan Technical Review Software Review 38

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

Buyers from Taiwan account for 0.015% of projects to date. Creatives from Taiwan account for 0.018% of projects awarded to date. US Buyers account for about 79% of our projects to date. Our busiest repeat buyer has already posted 36 projects on the site. Since January 1, 2010 we have registered an average of 225 new Buyers per week.

Taiwan 78

Taiwan Community Analytics 78

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

Buyers from Taiwan account for 0.015% of projects to date. Creatives from Taiwan account for 0.018% of projects awarded to date. US Buyers account for about 79% of our projects to date. Our busiest repeat buyer has already posted 36 projects on the site. Since January 1, 2010 we have registered an average of 225 new Buyers per week.

Taiwan 78

Taiwan Analytics Community 78

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 27, 2016

In China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Spain and Taiwan, exporting SMEs are roughly twice as likely to report such rapid growth compared to their non-exporting counterparts, while exporting SMEs in Brazil, Colombia and India are between 1.1-1.3 times more likely to achieve rapid growth.

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Small Business South Korea Colombia Taiwan 100