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Startup Nation: The Best Startup Capitals for Entrepreneurs in 2023 

ReadWriteStart

Like over in California, competition here is hot, and demand for high-tech innovation from food, climate tech, and agri-tech is constantly growing. As of 2020, the country was ranked as the second most innovative globally. It’s a tight market to enter, seeing that the region often promotes more domestic and homegrown startups.

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When Third is First

thebarefootvc

The ingenuity of a rural farmer in Africa is on par with some of the greatest innovation I’ve seen in the heart of Silicon Valley, particularly in light of the lack of “formal” training and mentorship many of us experience in the developed world. Since I wrote that post, millions more entrepreneurs have launched their businesses globally.

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Facial Rejuvenation Treatments Projected To Enjoy Growth In The Next Five To Seven Years

YoungUpstarts

The report Microneedling Market – Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends, and Forecast 2018-2026 indicates that the market is expected to enjoy steady growth over the next five years on a global level. Photo by Joeyy Lee on Unsplash ].

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How Social Distancing Is Helping The Environment

YoungUpstarts

As restrictions ease, there aren’t any signs to indicate that demand is going to return to previous levels. Bears in Yosemite, California and lions in Kruger, South Africa have all been roaming into the spaces usually reserved for human visitors. Office paper usage in developed countries has decreased by almost 30%.

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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

thebarefootvc

This was the year that the promise of technology to truly change the world and empower individuals (the reason I entered the tech world in 1994) reached global scale. As of year-end, Foursquare had over 15 million users, with an exponential growth rate globally.

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Entrepreneurship in the Fast Lane

Growthink Blog

Pursue Global Markets 2. Pursue Global Markets. If you don’t have a business that can scale globally, then either don’t bother or just content yourself with staying small. In that same time frame, United States IPO volume declined 75% in real terms and now accounts for less than 11% of the global total. In the U.S.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 14 – Planning– Major General Mike Fenzel

Steve Blank

Global Integration of Operational Plans. In the past, when we talked about Operational Plans for combatant commands like Central Command , or INDOPACOM , or a European Command , we didn’t think about global integration. But cyber and space alone demand global integration. There’s cyber, there’s space.