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Born Global or Die Local – Building a Regional Startup Playbook

Steve Blank

I’m in Australia and just spent time with some great entrepreneurs in Melbourne. This group realized that Australia has a great reputation as one of the world’s best sporting nations. Creating a vertically oriented regional ecosystem is a pretty amazing accomplishment for any country or industry. Regional Ecosystems.

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The truth about FMCG in Australia

Start Up Blog

But few are faced with challenges as deep and far reaching as the FMCG industry in Australia. What I’d be doing if I was an FMCG company in Australia is investing all of my advertising investment in channel innovation – I’d move all that consumer money across. Sure, Australia is a tiny market on a global scale.

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Paywalls, SEO, and the Need for a Damn Good Brand

ConversionXL

ca/) and Australia (independent.ie/au/). News is an especially challenging vertical since no site owns a newsworthy event. We tested this on two completely temporary replicas of our sites for Canada (independent.ie/ca/) For users in those countries, we put all content behind a registration wall.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: New Assessment Tool For Entrepreneurs

ReadWriteStart

ShareVolution As for the pitches today, first, Daniel McPherson from Australia pitched ShareVolution , an app store for the Microsoft SharePoint community. We have also provided relevant 1M/1M curriculum modules that you can use to bridge the gaps in your knowledge and understanding of a robust entrepreneurship methodology.

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Warehouse Mess, Unnecessary Stress: Get Your Workplace in Order

The Startup Magazine

The ideal solution is to maximise the use of vertical space with the help of pallets; in other words, go upwards and not outwards. Vertical storage is going to work out for the best of your warehouse in the long run. A safe workplace depends on it.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Cove.tool

Austin Startup

for startups that isn’t San Francisco or New York), Cove.tool has buildings in Canada, South America, Europe, Africa and Australia, as well as across America. This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries.

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Maximizing Your Facebook Advertising

YoungUpstarts

We had a chance to chat with Nicolas Franchet, Facebook ‘s Head of Retail & e-Commerce on its Global Vertical Marketing team, as well as Maz Sharafi, Head of Local Advertising Sales and Partnerships, on how small business owners, especially retailers, build an effective online strategy for Facebook.