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Why Now Is The Right Time For New Green Technology

YoungUpstarts

For green technology, the barriers — high costs, lack of supporting infrastructure, the weight of tradition — have been especially prohibitive. But the timing is finally right for some green tech to take off. The time in the spotlight is finally here for green innovations like permeable pavement.

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5 Most Successful Products Ever and What Small Businesses Can Learn From Them

crowdSPRING Blog

Lipitor (1997). Japan – technical juggernaut and one of the most powerful economies around the globe – chose a video game hero to represent their culture on the global stage. Mario first jumped into the global spotlight in 1985. Make sure your product offers something worthwhile to keep customer’s coming back.

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Why You Should Use Localisation in a Globalised World

The Startup Magazine

Sushi – a food that has reached its tentacles around the world and is now served in over 20,000 restaurants outside Japan, can be considered a truly successful global product. Localisation, or l10n, is the process of adapting a global product or content to a specific local market. Localisation reduces risks and costs.

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Should You Serve Fair Trade Coffee?

Up and Running

In a global market where the buyers and sellers of coffee are often half a world away from those who grow and maintain the plants themselves, do you know what those worker’s lives are like? What about the farms, are they environmentally friendly, and are they using green and sustainable methods? What Is Fair Trade Coffee?

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The pioneers of Silicon Valley’s fast culture on how to grow quickly, not recklessly

Reid Hoffman

And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. And, as the industrial revolution showed us, there are some real costs to scale.

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Leadership Lessons To Help Guide You To Excellence

Duct Tape Marketing

He’s out with yet another co-authored book with Nancye Green called — Tom Peters’ Compact Guide to Excellence. He's single-handedly invented, and he's out with yet another co-authored book, uh, co-authored with Nancy Green, entitled Tom Peters Compact Guide to Excellence. Uh, Nancy Green is no slouch on her own, right?

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Entrepreneur-Friendly Policies (Finally) Showing Promise - But Leadership Required

Seeing Both Sides

The Kauffman Foundation’s research on this matter is clear: from 1997 to 2005, job growth in the US was driven entirely by start-ups. This anemic NIH funding level remains despite the well-known fact that the impact on health care costs and job creation is enormous. It’s new businesses.