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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 Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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Out of the Crisis #11: Jeremy Howard on the power of masks, health policy, and data science in medicine

Startup Lessons Learned

So plenty of dark bits, but also this weird discovery that you can create incredibly close connections with people that I've never met before and build a global community of people who want nothing more than to help save lives. And for them, a lot of it was this kind of weird anti-government thing. So there was like scary moments.