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8 Strategies To Capitalize On Untapped Global Markets

Startup Professionals Musings

In my experience, the Silicon Valley startup model, focused on disrupting established industries, has treated the USA well and created some great global businesses. In effect, Silicon Valley needs to take a more global perspective. Target a global market rather than a local from day one. Marty Zwilling

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Looking Back On Tech, Startups, And VC In 2018

Haystack

And, with that warning, I offer to you, the big stories in the startup and investing ecosystem of 2018, written in ascending order of importance and magnitude…. Technology is, like water, flowing and seeping into nearly every sector and eventually into most of the global economy. 4/ Global Trade Wars Are For Real.

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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 5 – AI and Machine Learning

Steve Blank

2018 Department of Defense Artificial Intelligence Strategy Department of Defense. “ The CNAS Artificial Intelligence and Global Security Initiative. Key takeaways from Mike’s talk were that 1) 50 years ago defense-related R&D made up 36% of global R&D. The AI Arms Race: Fact or Fiction? Trump Administration.

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8 Keys To Real Innovation Outside of Silicon Valley

Startup Professionals Musings

In my experience, the Silicon Valley startup model, focused on disrupting established industries, has treated the USA well and created some great global businesses. In effect, Silicon Valley needs to take a more global perspective. Target a global market rather than a local from day one.

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Export Online Without Frontiers: A Global Map of B2B Marketplaces

The Startup Magazine

The largest ones are Alibaba, Global Sources, DHgate, EC21, Tradekey, Asia Trade Hub, and go4WorldBusiness. Global Sources, once listed in Bermuda and now owned by the private equity giant Blackstone, has been active in Hong Kong since the 1970s and focuses on trade in and out of the former British colony. B2B Marketplaces in Asia.

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My Top 10 for 2018

Start Up Blog

I was thinking about some of the cool things I saw, read, noticed and digested around the world of tech for 2018. So here it is, the Sammatron’s Tech Top 10 for 2018… enjoy: Blog Post of the year: Survival of the Richest by Douglas Rushkoff , who contends that the one percent are plotting to leave us behind.

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Vaping: the Startup Business in 2018

The Startup Magazine

billion in sales in 2018. According to Herzog, this industry will continue growing in 2018. A 2017 report forecasts a global growth of the e-cigarette and vaporizer market by 20.8% Therefore, e-cigarettes are, in 2018, a profitable sector for startups. billion in sales in 2014 to $3 billion in 2017.