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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. They realized if they could develop and promote a well-coordinated sports technologies industry, they could capture their unfair share of the $300 billon sports consumer market. Bay of Fires Tasmania. Trip 2 to the U.S.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

Everything Seth said is absolutely spot on, except I’d encourage founders to make sure they do some customer development (even in the consumer space) in parallel to cranking out the first product. Seems like a hell of a lot of advantage to have, on top of a great founding team, when heading into a startup.