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International Do’s and Don’ts For the Traveling Entrepreneur

Up and Running

A perfect example: Bill Gates once shook hands with the President of South Korea (pictured above) and he absent-mindedly kept his left hand in his pocket. See Also From Market Research to Writing Your Export Business Plan. This is simply because they are so different from one another in creative and business culture.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

Not in Europe or South Korea. If you can do a business plan, and good PowerPoint slides, and get a few people excited, hire a couple guys who are willing to do front-end design, and maybe some back-end of your product, raise a little angel money – just like the basics. 20 years ago it mattered. You failed, you suck.

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Why haven’t European investors fully accepted the ‘failure is good’ mentality yet?

The Next Web

An EU memo in 2010 stated the following discoveries: In the EU (but also in Japan and South Korea) the preference for being an employee is mainly motivated by considerations of stability (regular income, stable employment relation) and by the generally agreeable employment conditions (working hours, social protection). Bill Gates.

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Out of the Crisis #18: Sal Khan on institution building, solving the digital divide, and education as the lever for all decisions

Startup Lessons Learned

Sal Khan : If you go back to mid-February, it sounds like the world was very different then, but it was in mid-February that we started seeing traffic pickup in China and South Korea. Could they make businesses out of it? So, I ended up after business school, working as an analyst at a very small hedge fund.