Startup Professionals Musings

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10 Ways for Startups to Expand Their Reach in 2012

Startup Professionals Musings

By utilizing economies of scale, location, and common design, you may be able to provide a better solution faster for a lower cost. I’ve netted out his and others to create the following basic strategy for entrepreneurial growth: Apply your core competency to related markets. New products or services to existing customers.

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Why Would a Business Avoid any Internet Presence?

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Yet I am amazed to see US Census Bureau data from 2012 that at least 50%, maybe up to 75%, of small businesses still have no presence at all. You should allow three months for the design, building, and rollout of your first site, and you can actually build it yourself these days. Viral marketing needs a website.

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Crowd-Funding Success Usually Brings New Challenges

Startup Professionals Musings

But safely seeking equity investments from the crowd via the Jobs Act of 2012 is problematic and has still not been defined. When pitching to consumers, online or offline, the feedback will likely be on features and design. Amount of funding provided is usually not enough.

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Is Crowd-Funding the Answer When Investors Decline?

Startup Professionals Musings

But safely seeking equity investments from the crowd via the Jobs Act of 2012 is problematic and has still not been defined. When pitching to consumers, online or offline, the feedback will likely be on features and design. Amount of funding provided is usually not enough.

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A New Era For Entrepreneurs And Startups Has Begun

Startup Professionals Musings

That is a 65% increase in the number of IPOs over 2012, and the highest proceeds raised since the year 2000. This approach, popularly known as “glocalization,” means you design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market you plan to attack. in 2013, with aggregate proceeds of over $38 billion.

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7 Strategies To Prepare For Global Market Challenges

Startup Professionals Musings

This approach, popularly known as “ glocalization ,” means you have to design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market in which you operate. McKinsey estimates, for example, that the upper middle class in China will grow from 14 percent in 2012 to 54 percent by 2022.

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Big Data is Getting Bigger as a Startup Opportunity

Startup Professionals Musings

Hence one segment of the opportunity is the need for new database technologies, like Hadoop , a distributed file system originally designed for indexing the Web. Data capacity is measured in petabytes (1000 terabytes), or soon even yottobytes (10 24 ).

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