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Export Online Without Frontiers: A Global Map of B2B Marketplaces

The Startup Magazine

The largest ones are Alibaba, Global Sources, DHgate, EC21, Tradekey, Asia Trade Hub, and go4WorldBusiness. Global Sources, once listed in Bermuda and now owned by the private equity giant Blackstone, has been active in Hong Kong since the 1970s and focuses on trade in and out of the former British colony. B2B Marketplaces in Asia.

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The Resilience Of American Business: How One Business Has Grown And Adapted During The Pandemic

YoungUpstarts

While some were heavily impacted others found ways to pivot and change their business model to adapt to the current circumstances. The company has made impressive changes to adapt to this global pandemic in the following ways: Offering a new approach to their existing customer base.

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Tech Focus: Pressure to Improve Drug Development Drives Innovation

The Startup Magazine

Born in Syria, Dr. Hanna began his surgical residency at the Aleppo University Medical Center and continued his studies in the United States with the intent to return to Syria to practice surgery. The new model emphasized business structure and capitalization. Lammasu Pharma Born from Innovation and Global Necessity.

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Female Founder Interview – Claudia Freed, CEO of Non-Profit EALgreen

The Startup Magazine

Freed received the first scholarship created from a sustainable-business model by the collaboration of EALgreen, WW Grainger, Inc. Freed is a global thinker and living proof that purpose-driven businesses transform lives. and North Park University.

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What to Expect from Cryptocurrencies in 2020

The Startup Magazine

For the first time in a century, the world has to deal with a global pandemic, a factor influencing how investors allocate capital. The number of fraudulent companies is lower, as compared to 2017, but even in 2020, we can find entities operating offshore with a questionable business model. Regulation.

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Franchise Business: An Option For Millennial Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

Believe it or not, millennials—defined as anyone born between 1981 and 1996, or ages 24–39 — have launched twice as many companies as baby boomers, according to a report by BNP Paribas Global. That may be because millennials are interested in seeing their business ideas play out to the fullest extent.

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When It’s Darkest Men See the Stars

Steve Blank

The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. The pundits say the American dream is dead and this next decade will see the further decline and fall of the West and in particular of the United States. It may be that all the doomsayers are right. But I don’t think so.