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Consider Emerging Markets for Your Global Expansion

Transformify

Globalization is the most significant challenge facing multinational firms today, especially in the emerging markets of Russia, Brazil, China, and Mexico. However, global businesses evaluate a variety of considerations before expanding their operations into a new market. Emerging Markets As The Pocket Full Of Potential.

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Looking Back On Tech, Startups, And VC In 2018

Haystack

Technology is, like water, flowing and seeping into nearly every sector and eventually into most of the global economy. 4/ Global Trade Wars Are For Real. companies, more sensitivity around technology IP and security. The shift in consumer behavior and the intensity of the Scooter demand was undeniable.

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Make The Most Of Your Next VC Pitch By Doing These 10 Things

YoungUpstarts

The market for our product was global, and we had unique advantages in terms of our product and how we distributed it to customers. VCs want to see that there’s a demand for your product and that you’re able to meet that demand. Be ready when it counts. Ultimately, these advantages helped us secure the funding we needed.

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Don’t Sleep on Lightning

Version One Ventures

If you want to feel bullish on how Lightning can be used as global payments rails, read this comprehensive essay by Nicolas Burtey of Galoy. TL;DR: The best analogue for Bitcoin itself is a global settlement layer like Fedwire (run by the Federal Reserve for interbank settlements with an average transaction size of $2 million).

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Take Five: The Metaverse

VC Cafe

digital collectibles) are only valuable if there’s an active market of supply < demand. But as trading volume (demand) goes down, so does the price and people will only buy them if they believe they will increase in value again. Check out the list of derivate IP from the BAYC collection below. Bored Ape M&Ms.

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Global Mobile Internet Data Traffic To Explode 13-Fold By 2017: Cisco

YoungUpstarts

exabytes per month (or 134 exabytes annually) by 2017, according to he Cisco® Visual Networking Index Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast for 2012 to 2017. In fact, during the forecast period Cisco anticipates that global mobile data traffic will outgrow global fixed data traffic by three times. ”, you ask.

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When Security Can Become Your Business Differentiator, Everybody Wins

YoungUpstarts

If their intellectual IP is stolen or if they are discovered to have been a launching pad for attacks against a larger business partner, it can mean going out of business. Even with a firewall and anti-virus program, these business are the most vulnerable to cyber attackers.