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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. I’m in Australia and just spent time with some great entrepreneurs in Melbourne. I’m in Australia and just spent time with some great entrepreneurs in Melbourne. And their branding and demand creation activities were going to occur primarily outside of Australia.

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Asian Exporters Drive e-Commerce Growth: eBay

YoungUpstarts

According to the first-ever Asian Exporters’ Index launched by online auction and shopping platform eBay , Singapore-based exporters on the site have the second largest sales in Southeast Asia after Thailand. Singapore primarily sell on eBay ’s US, UK, Australia and Germany websites, with purchases from Brazil among the fastest growing.

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“Effective”, “Motivated”, “Track Record” Most Overused Words On LinkedIn Profiles In 2012

YoungUpstarts

Here are the most overused words by country: Creative : Australia, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States. Multinational : Brazil. Professional online network LinkedIn today revealed the most overused words and phrases in its members’ profiles this year. Dynamic : France. Effective : India.

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Significant Percentage Of Global Email Traffic Is Spam: Cloudmark

YoungUpstarts

Interestingly, research compiled from messaging threat protection service provider Cloudmark’s Global Threat Network actually places the United States as the top country in the world in terms of volume of email spam, followed by Brazil and France. they send less emails, but a large proportion of those can be spam). Philippines.

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Taking Your Startup Global

ReadWriteStart

For e-commerce startups the question then becomes, “Do you really want to turn down a sale just because the order comes from overseas?”. For example, Voxy delivers a different product to Brazil than to other South American nations. Too quick to execute on a sale without securing payment. 8 Common Mistakes.

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Taking Your Startup Global

ReadWriteStart

For e-commerce startups the question then becomes, “Do you really want to turn down a sale just because the order comes from overseas?” For example, Voxy delivers a different product to Brazil than to other South American nations. Gilmore also points to Australia as a superpower where consumers spent $12 billion online in 2010.

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Regulatory Tips for Medical Tech Startups Regulated by the FDA

ReadWriteStart

According to the FDA, between 2005-2009, sales reps from ev3 encouraged surgeons to use Onyx outside the brain in unproven and dangerous ways. The company incentivized sales reps to promote unauthorized uses and the sales reps even attended surgical procedures where they instructed surgeons on what to do.