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8 Challenges When Scaling Your New Venture Worldwide

Startup Professionals Musings

Even the venerable McDonald’s failed to recognize that in Bolivia, their price per meal was off the charts compared to indigenous alternatives. Global expansion is never simply a multiplier applied to local results. These factors can totally change your customer value proposition, or your cost of doing business in that geography.

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Helping Entrepreneurs Get To Where They Want To Go Faster

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My grandparents ran a very large cookie and bread factory in Bolivia. There were so many pieces of the actual business side that I just didn't understand. I then met Elizabeth along that journey and she was coming from this background with the working for the United Nations, leading their global entrepreneur council.