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Sprint Like An Egyptian: A Tech Entrepreneurship Revolution in Alexandria

Gust

One commonly used approach is to identify widely felt “pain points” in the target market; build a workable solution to address them using particularly effective or efficient means; and if the business model pencils out, work like crazy to execute, execute, execute. Silicon Arabia has engineers in Russia as well as Egypt.)

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Three Megatrends That Will Affect Everybody’s Business

YoungUpstarts

For example: what are the implications of Russia having a life expectancy of 59 versus 61 for Bangladesh? Companies need to be creative and find new business models to take advantage of the shifting makeup of their operating countries’ populations. The internet of everything is on its way.

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7 Startup High Risk Factors That Scare Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

Certain business sectors have historical high failure rates and are routinely avoided by investors. On the Internet, I would add new social networking sites, and new matchmaking sites. If your business model is dependent on government approvals, that can take a long time, or require political connections.

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7 Ways Startups Get Tagged as Too Risky by Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

Certain business sectors have historical high failure rates and are routinely avoided by investors. On the Internet, I would add new social networking sites, and new matchmaking sites. If your business model is dependent on government approvals, that can take a long time, or require political connections.

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7 Startup High Risk Factors That Scare Investors

Gust

Certain business sectors have historical high failure rates and are routinely avoided by investors. On the Internet, I would add new social networking sites, and new matchmaking sites. If your business model is dependent on government approvals, that can take a long time, or require political connections.

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Out of the Crisis #2: Mark Cuban on putting people first, the Dallas Mavericks, and what we'll want on the other side

Startup Lessons Learned

Someone would put a radio next to it in Bloomington and we were like, "This internet thing has got to have a better way." My grandparents were forced from Russia. But this is not a standard operating procedure. So we started out what turned out to be one of the first, if not the first, audio streaming companies called AudioNet.

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Perceived Risk Can Make Your Startup Unfundable

Startup Professionals Musings

Certain business sectors have historical high failure rates and are routinely avoided by investors. On the Internet, I would add new social networking sites, and new matchmaking sites. If your business model is dependent on government approvals, that can take a long time, or require political connections.

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