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6 Building Blocks Make Amazon A Global Market Leader

Startup Professionals Musings

Every new business dreams of growing from a startup to a global market leader in a few years, like Amazon.com, but that goal is elusive. It has proven to be a huge customer growth engine, and now has over 100 million members globally. They help hiring managers raise the bar for every interview.

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5 Phases Of Every Startup That Regulate Your Success

Startup Professionals Musings

This phase is characterized by rapid expansion either regionally or globally for growth (scaling up). A common practice is to hire local employees who know the geographic culture, even though this may well dilute the company culture. The emphasis is on global processes and tight execution. Geographic expansion. Consolidation.

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9 Success Principles To Propel Your Next New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

Look for needs that have a global appeal to a wide demographic. Global considerations include culture differences and translation. Minimize permanent hiring and customized operational facilities. In this age of the gig-economy, you can more quickly hire and manage freelancers, contract workers, and contract operations.

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Many Startup Cultures Cannot Match The Market Pace

Startup Professionals Musings

This phase is characterized by rapid expansion either regionally or globally for growth (scaling up). A common practice is to hire local employees who know the geographic culture, even though this may well dilute the company culture. The emphasis is on global processes and tight execution. Geographic expansion. Consolidation.

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Global Perspective: Current Opportunities for Low-Cost Manufacturing in China

The Startup Magazine

Few other countries can match China in this – be it India, Thailand or Vietnam. All this leads to economies of scale, which factories elsewhere are hard-pressed to match. These include sites like Alibaba , Global Sources , Made in China and Global Market. These gaps lead to an increase in costs. A word of caution, though.

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Remote First: Why Isn’t Every Company Boundaryless

ReadWriteStart

We’ll discuss the critical questions a CEO needs to answer to effectively capitalize on the remote labor market while avoiding the pitfalls most commonly encountered when people attempt to hire developers that are far from their company’s headquarters. Hiring remote talent is much more complicated than hiring in your backyard.

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Whom Should You Hire at a Startup? (Attitude Over Aptitude)

Both Sides of the Table

The nature of the Internet and global knowledge is such that even if you’ve stumbled on to a super interesting area of innovation there will be many teams tackling the same problem at exactly the same time. In this globally connected world product leads disappear in nano-seconds. Only hire A players. B players beget C players.”

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