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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. However, most countries don’t have sufficient population to support scale with just their local market and ultimately need to be global players – from day one. I’m in Australia and just spent time with some great entrepreneurs in Melbourne. Outside the U.S.

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Part 2 of Episode 6 on Sirius XM Channel 111: Steve Weinstein and Venk Shukla

Steve Blank

I spoke with Steve about innovation in the movie industry, and to Venk about his journey from bureaucrat in India to entrepreneur here in the U.S., and his work helping other Indian entrepreneurs through TiE, the Indus Entrepreneur network. So I said OK, I’ll work here for a while, pay off the loan and then go to India.

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Taking stock of the Dutch tech cluster: What The Netherlands needs to win the European startup scene

The Next Web

At home we have entrepreneurs who think global day one. The Dutch ‘invented’ the limited liability corporation with the inception of the Dutch East India Company. We have 30 procedures to go through when starting a legal business entity – ranking us #5 globally of light bureaucracy when incorporating.

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Is gust.com a difficult platform to replicate?

Gust

However, there is actually much more to Gust than is apparent on the surface, or even from the viewpoint of a current user (either entrepreneur or investor). As I’ve discussed elsewhere, Gust’s long-term goal is to serve as the infrastructure platform for the entire global, early stage finance industry.

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Former Head of Microsoft Israel Dreams of Billion Dollar Israeli Startups

VC Cafe

about Moshe Lichtman, and why he is one of few men or women capable of leading an Israeli startup to global billions. Among Microsoft’s 20 worldwide R&D centers, there are only three “strategic centers”: in India, China, and Israel. There aren’t enough entrepreneurs here that want to start a company worth a billion dollars.

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Bridging the gap between tech startups and the Fortune 500

David Teten

Dell’s Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) Program offers “custom software and hardware integration, escalated 24/7 technical support, dedicated customer care agents, and complimentary access to local, pre-sale and enterprise consultants.”. SAP also has a dedicated fund for startups using HANA.

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Strategy Roundtable: Try To Get At Least $2M Pre-Money In Seed Round Valuation

ReadWriteStart

Before I do, however, I want to talk about a thumb rule that I'd like to propose to entrepreneurs about raising money. So at any point, if you are trying to raise money, and you are hearing from investors that you are too early and have too little validation, it may be a good thing. We will work on that with her. Trendy Loot.

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