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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. I recommend that you hire people in the local market to manage your business there.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter January 2012

VC Cafe

Though a global innovator, Apple in 2010 only invested 2% of its revenue in R&D, much lower than other high-tech companies. Apple has hired Aharon Aharon, a veteran player in Israel’s high tech industry, to lead the new development center. The new center in Israel will focus on semiconductors. Israel Corp.