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How Innovation Can Help Frontier Markets

YoungUpstarts

Frontier markets are developing countries that are still too small to be considered as emerging markets. The frontier market is a term coined by the International Finance Corporation’s Frida Khambata in 1992. Frontier markets are developing countries where it’s risky to invest in, but emerging markets are more stable.

Bahrain 101
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Nitex Takes Fashion Forward

Austin Startup

Whenever you hear about Bangladesh you only see the bad news. With Hasan’s background in fashion, an industry worth $22 billion dollars a year in their own backyard (making Bangladesh the second largest worldwide supplier), they found a market worth exploring. They just needed a pain point to solve. Number two was transparency.

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Work Is Love Made Visible

YoungUpstarts

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.

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[Review] The Rise Of The New East

YoungUpstarts

How big is the market for Muslim-friendly products and services? To tap this burgeoning market, companies should consider working with local partners who possess a more intimate knowledge of each market. Are China and India still the “factory” and “outsourced service provider” of the world?

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When Third is First

thebarefootvc

Take a look at these innovations which were first implemented in the emerging markets and are now making their way to the “first world”: Mobile Money: Six years ago, mPesa launched in Kenya to transfer money via cellphone. The ethos behind microcredit has reached a market well beyond the poor, rural woman in an emerging market.

Africa 106
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Generate and Transformify: Umbrella Solutions to Help Businesses Hire Top Talent Worldwide

Transformify

The CEO of Transformify, Lilia Stoyanov, said ‘’ An umbrella or contract staffing solution is perfectly addressing the needs of those businesses facing skilled labor shortages on their local markets. However, a typical umbrella solution doesn’t address the candidate sourcing needs. All visa, relocation, etc. About Generate.

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Hacking for Diplomacy – The State Department Takes Notice

Steve Blank

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. And they’ve absorbed and analyzed incredible amounts of information about their topic of concern.