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Consider Emerging Markets for Your Global Expansion

Transformify

Russia's GDP grew exponentially between 1999 and 2008, driven mostly by oil exports as well as a surge in oil prices. Still, there is a lot to be done with regard to the legal system and the protection of intellectual property ( IP) rights. Russia is the seventh largest internal market in the world and the first in Europe.

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Do Movies Even Matter Anymore?

Growthink Blog

The movie business of today is all "pre-sold" IP. What is the future of Pay-Per-View/Video-on-Demand (PPV and VOD)? Video-on-demand alone is estimated to grow from a $1.1 Toy Story 3? Karate Kid 3? Iron Man 2? Sex and The City 2? The A-Team? Where are all of the NEW Ideas in Entertainment? Has the U.S.

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The Web is Against the Ropes, But it’s Not Dead

Both Sides of the Table

The start of the argument is that you need to separate using the Internet into “infrastructure & cloud services&# (basically the protocols of the Internet such as HTTP, TCP/IP, SMTP, etc. + My first company was a SaaS software company started in 1999. Because over time users will demand open.

Web 300
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Fixing Tech – A Manifesto from a Raving Capitalist

Start Up Blog

After the Dot Com crash of 1999, most yet-to-be-disrupted big firms got back to business. New industries never ask if it’s ok to sell a new raw material, they just take it and commercialise the demand for it. It was difficult to conceive how important the internet would be to our lives back in the mid 1990s. But when the web 2.0