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McLaren Strategic Ventures Sajan Pillai Discusses the Top Five Trends for Advancing Global Technology in 2022 

The Startup Magazine

Most notably, the ground-breaking development and rapid global distribution of mRNA vaccines highlighted the speed and scale of technological advances to outsmart humanity’s most dire threats. When the first microwave oven hit the market in 1955, it cost roughly $12,000 in today’s dollars; today you can pick one up for $64 on Amazon.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Microsoft's $100K India Startup Challenge Grant

ReadWriteStart

I will be traveling in India in April, and doing live roundtables in three cities: Chennai (April 9) , Mumbai (April 16) , and Pune (April 17). Next Jigar Doshi, also from Chennai, India, pitched 3gSimplified , in effect, a comparative shopping solution for mobile plans, which are apparently quite complex in the Indian market.

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Sheela Foam to Acquire 35% Stake in Furlenco

ReadWriteStart

India’s furniture rental startup, Furlenco, is all set to sell a 35% stake to Sheela Foam , the maker of the popular mattress brand Sleepwell. The acquisition will help Sheela Foam enter the fast-growing branded furniture market and expand its presence in the furniture industry. The deal, proposed at $36.5

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5 Reasons Why Global Expansion Is a Great Idea

Transformify

The same is applicable to the minimum wage and the average market pay rate if you are planning on opening an office and hiring distributed workforce overseas. This can bring down operational or production costs permitting the companies to improve their profit margins. Allows you to offset the fluctuations in the existing local market.

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Born Global or Die Local – Building a Regional Startup Playbook

Steve Blank

China, Russia, Brazil, India, Indonesia all meet those criteria. channel partners and Chinese manufacturers and customer acquisition and activation programs outside their home country. Trip 1 to China to understand manufacturing landscape, potential partners and rough cost of goods. Outside the U.S. Trip 2 to the U.S.

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You Can’t Spell Hardware without H-A-R-D

K9 Ventures

Occipital — makers of the Structure Sensor for 3-D data acquisition. Expensive iterations: Depending on the product doing a new rev of the hardware may cost thousands of dollars or more and could also take weeks if not at least several days. Coin — a programmable payment device in a credit card form factor.

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Out of the Crisis #21: Tomas Pueyo on the hammer and the dance, political polarization, and how the pandemic will affect the way we live and work

Startup Lessons Learned

The benefit of the hammer and the dance is lower, and also the cost is higher." So I think the most interesting aspect of this article is how just mind-blowing that distribution is. One of my jobs in the past was consulting measures and acquisitions. Just look at your measures in terms of cost-benefit.