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Completing your first capital raise: ten lessons for startups

NZ Entrepreneur

Kiwi inventory forecasting software StockTrim achieved international sales in the UK, Australia and US immediately after launching in 2017. After hearing the Mega Distribution story, people came up and said, ‘That’s exactly what happened in my business.’ StockTrim came out successful – oversubscribed, in fact. Lesson 9.

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Born Global or Die Local – Building a Regional Startup Playbook

Steve Blank

But if you want to build a scalable startup you need to be asking how you can you get enough customers/users/payers to build a business that can grow revenues past several $100M/year. I’m in Australia and just spent time with some great entrepreneurs in Melbourne. Get seed funding in Australia. With 317 million people the U.S.

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Inventing Tomorrow’s Jobs – COVID-19 series

Start Up Blog

If only we have a way to capture it, store it and distribute it… Yes. The truth about jobs: Since the COVID-19 crisis, the USA has lost over 20 million jobs, and Australia has lost just under 1,000,000 according to the ABS. But it’s not true – adapting will generating 300 billion in revenue a year.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Microsoft's $100K India Startup Challenge Grant

ReadWriteStart

The company has distribution through about 50 retailers in Chennai, and is looking for ways to market their product through online channels. Next week, the 1M/1M roundtable will focus on entrepreneurs in East Asia, Australia and New Zealand. We discussed guerilla p.r., You can register for the next roundtable here.

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Small Business Spotlight of the Week: miiCard

crowdSPRING Blog

miiCard supports the UK, North America, Western Europe, India, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. Within the next two years miiCard will generate significant revenue, gain key partnerships and start to establish itself as a new standard in online identity and trust. What are some industry specific challenges you faced? .

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Zero Person Corporations & DAO’s

Start Up Blog

It stands for Distributed Autonomous Organisation. Last week a report was released by the bipartisan Senate Committee on Australia as a centre for finance and technology. Of their $US12 billion in revenue, 27.5 The best part for the drivers is that they could keep 99 per cent of the revenue for each trip they take.

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Hacking for Diplomacy – The State Department Takes Notice

Steve Blank

Customers, for example, are recast as “beneficiaries,” and instead of identifying revenue streams, these diplo-preneurs are interested in defining “mission achievement.”). They shared their experiences of how technology has enhanced – and threatens to undermine – diplomatic work.