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The Firewall Is Dead ā€“ What Can Businesses Do To Protect And Secure Their Brands?

YoungUpstarts

by David Nagrosst, head of sales for Cyxtera Technologies in Asia Pacific, Australia and Japan. As the cloud becomes increasingly common and the data deluge shows no signs of slowing down, the good old firewall is simply no longer sufficient for protecting the highly distributed assets of the enterprise. The onset of death.

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Born Global or Die Local ā€“ Building a Regional Startup Playbook

Steve Blank

Iā€™m in Australia and just spent time with some great entrepreneurs in Melbourne. This group realized that Australia has a great reputation as one of the world’s best sporting nations. But other critical hypotheses such as activities, resources, partners, channels needed testing offshore. Get seed funding in Australia.

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The truth about FMCG in Australia

Start Up Blog

But few are faced with challenges as deep and far reaching as the FMCG industry in Australia. The two friendly giant of Coles and Woolworth s are no longer partners of their suppliers ā€“ they are now their biggest competitors. Innovate radically to invent new ways to distribute consumer goods. Every industry has its challenges.

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Hacking for Diplomacy ā€“ The State Department Takes Notice

Steve Blank

Feasibility requires the teams to figure out what are the key activities, resources and partners they would need to deliver their product or service to their beneficiaries and their State Department sponsors. Theyā€™re also focusing on developing relationships with and getting buy-in from key partners like the Red Cross and other NGOs.

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Hacking for Diplomacy ā€“ The State Department Takes Notice

Steve Blank

Feasibility requires the teams to figure out what are the key activities, resources and partners they would need to deliver their product or service to their beneficiaries and their State Department sponsors. Theyā€™re also focusing on developing relationships with and getting buy-in from key partners like the Red Cross and other NGOs.

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Small Business Spotlight of the Week: miiCard

crowdSPRING Blog

miiCard supports the UK, North America, Western Europe, India, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. miiCard will build the user base directly and through partnering vendors using multi-channel distribution strategy. It provides a safer, faster and more convenient way to transact online.

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The Class That Changed the Way Entrepreneurship is Taught

Steve Blank

Business plans presume that building a startup is a series of predictable steps requiring execution of a plan which assumes a series of known facts: known customers, known features, known pricing, known distribution channel. One of the goals of the class is to talk to 100 customers and partners.

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