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Born Global or Die Local – Building a Regional Startup Playbook

Steve Blank

This group realized that Australia has a great reputation as one of the world’s best sporting nations. The biggest mistake for most of these startups was not understanding that optimizing their business model for the 24 million people in the Australian market would not prepare them for the size and scale they needed to get to big.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

Nosake From nothing to losing money every month with no business model in sight. Without having deep connections in the SV/VC community, there is no way that a “guy with an idea” will crack into that world without a strong (really strong) business model. Hopefully your idea of business model isn’t “ad revenue based”.