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Consider Emerging Markets for Your Global Expansion

Transformify

Fintech businesses have been thriving in Brazil in the last 10 years as more and more people have access to internet and cheap smartphones that give them access to mobile payment apps. Russia's GDP grew exponentially between 1999 and 2008, driven mostly by oil exports as well as a surge in oil prices. on average. The Bottom Line.

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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

thebarefootvc

In places where international diplomacy had failed, citizens around the world found their individual and collective voices to topple dictatorships and demand better lives for themselves and future generations. What comes next remains to be seen but these revolutions even empowered individuals not touched directly by the uprisings.

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Entrepreneurship in the Fast Lane

Growthink Blog

Try these statistics on for size, from 1999 to today Asia’s share of the world’s Initial Public Offerings grew from 12% to 66%. And with their capital and confidence, China and India are stretching their wings. Your India strategy? • Pursue Global Markets. In the U.S. These are fantastic new markets for U.S.

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What if it’s 1996, not 1999?

Seeing Both Sides

But if that observation led them to refrain from investing in the Internet sector, they would have missed one of the most stunning legal creations of wealth in history. The Internet bull market continued to run for four more years after the Open Market IPO, finally ending in the spring of 2000.

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The Future is Better than You Think

Growthink Blog

Try these statistics on for size, from 1999 to today Asia’s share of the world’s Initial Public Offerings grew from 12% to 66%. And with their capital and confidence, China and India are stretching their wings. Your India strategy? • Well, McKinsey estimates that consumer spending in Africa will double, to $1.8

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

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The Wall Street Journal is phasing out support of the Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) browser. Internet Explorer. In the 1990s Internet boom, easy money helped founders maintain more control early in a companys evolution, but founder CEOs without voting control often got replaced by a professional manager ahead of an IPO. My Journal.

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Boom and Bust and What Comes Next

Scalable Startup

Consulting Google, the oracle of the Internet, indicates that there is little in the way of consensus regarding the possibility of a tech boom/bust scenario playing out in the near term. Housing is cheap in the Central Valley, but the cost of living is even cheaper in India and Vietnam. The first page results of a search for “tech 2.0