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Dreams of Growth and Expansion

Up and Running

If you’re venturing into the apparel market, you’ll have to visit China and Vietnam where the major garment factories are located. And for coffee distribution, you’ll have to press elbows with Starbucks in Guatemala. If you decide to produce toilets, sinks and showers, you’ll have to go to Japan. All markets are global.

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A dumb American’s perspective on investing in Southeast Asia

Hippoland

But it’s arguably even harder in a place where there aren’t ready distribution channels. The interesting thing about the US market is that customer acquisition these days is actually fairly straightforward online now for most customer audiences. Other customer audiences are laggards in adopting the internet.

Asia 48
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A dumb American’s perspective on investing in Southeast Asia

Hippoland

But it’s arguably even harder in a place where there aren’t ready distribution channels. The interesting thing about the US market is that customer acquisition these days is actually fairly straightforward online now for most customer audiences. Other customer audiences are laggards in adopting the internet.

Asia 48
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“What Unites Us” —Important Lessons from @danrather at the #UpfrontSummit

Both Sides of the Table

He was a pioneer in reporting the civil rights struggle, Vietnam, Watergate, Iran-Contra, The Gulf War and so many more historical moments in our history. We spoke about the consolidation of media platforms “90% of media distribution is controlled by just 6 international business entities.” This deserves more public scrutiny.

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Out of the Crisis #21: Tomas Pueyo on the hammer and the dance, political polarization, and how the pandemic will affect the way we live and work

Startup Lessons Learned

Eric Ries : So if I'm getting it right, 60 million people is something like 5% of the possible audience of people who are on the internet and speak English. So I think the most interesting aspect of this article is how just mind-blowing that distribution is. T omas Pueyo : Yeah. Tomas Pueyo : That's funny, so a couple of things.