YoungUpstarts
APRIL 20, 2018
All this progress, at an ever increasing pace, creates a wealth of new opportunities and disrupts existing markets faster and more forceful than ever before. Whole countries such as Bangladesh will be flooded, should we see such a dramatic rise of our oceans.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 21, 2016
For our students, that can mean anyone from a Syrian refugee trying to make contact with his family back home, to a supply chain manager for a major apparel brand who wants to make sure his contract factory in Bangladesh doesn’t use forced labor. Terrorists harnessing the internet to radicalize and recruit new members.
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Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 21, 2016
For our students, that can mean anyone from a Syrian refugee trying to make contact with his family back home, to a supply chain manager for a major apparel brand who wants to make sure his contract factory in Bangladesh doesn’t use forced labor. Terrorists harnessing the internet to radicalize and recruit new members.
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 3, 2012
The benefits of microfinance have been debated since the ’70s when the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh began making tiny loans to impoverished small business owners. The bank lends to groups of women, with each receiving $50 to $100 to buy rickshaws for transporting wheat to market or to help them open Internet kiosks.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 7, 2012
13, 2006: This distinguished Nobel Peace Prize recipient pioneered the use of microcredits through the Grameen Bank, which he established in his native Bangladesh in 1983; many for-profit and nonprofit ventures these days utilize the same concept when investing in underprivileged regions. Jane Chen at Social Capital Markets , Dec.
Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook
DECEMBER 4, 2012
This should be required reading for any Chief Marketing Officer. ” Innovation means delivering and selling useful new ideas to the market. .” ” Innovation means delivering and selling useful new ideas to the market. This pithy text gives you the big picture and provides precision tools for cultural navigation.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 2, 2020
Eric Ries : I had to do the math, and it's dangerous to do the math live, but I had to look up on Wikipedia the number of English-speaking internet users, which is about 1.1 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.
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