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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. However, this varies significantly from market to market. China alone has 143 cities which meet this size.

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Finance Fridays

Feld Thoughts

Kevin McCaffrey left his job as a strategy consultant in the Chicago office of McKinsey & Company to found Dot-to-Dot Children’s Books, a nonprofit social enterprise that works with children around the world to develop children’s books that are marketed to raise funding and awareness for the authors’ communities.

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Today’s Tech Savvy Millennials Still Need A Helping Hand To Achieve Their Entrepreneurial Dreams

YoungUpstarts

Our increasingly connected world is opening up new realms of possibilities where both the components of manufacturing and final end customers may be found across international borders, not just in domestic market places. Asian students are already prolific digital natives, tech-literate and tool-adaptive.

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Labor Day! Let’s Celebrate the Workers

crowdSPRING Blog

in Cambodia, exploring temples, caves, and unusual foods that I can’t wait to hear about. Amanda Werner is a freaking Valedictorian of her college class and helps out around here with marketing and PR. Related posts: Lean Marketing tips: business card as selling tool. Thanks, Dylan! Personal branding in a world of meat.

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How to Find Hundreds of Business Ideas

Up and Running

There is no stand that I have seen on the market to solve my problem – only small stands for a time long past when people bought fewer but more expensive items. This is why venture capitalists like Boris Wertz, see value in investing in those that have a lot of experience in the market they’re pitching their idea for.

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Accelerator Spotlight: Influencer Direct

View from Seed

Rachel Hodes (RH): What problem exists in the market that your business is trying to solve? I grew up in Houston, TX and come from humble beginnings; my mom was a single parent and refugee from Cambodia. Influencer Direct puts the tools to create their own eCommerce business directly into the hands of influencers.”

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VC Cafe Turns 9

VC Cafe

Related to that, my post on ‘ Lean Market Research ‘ was a summary of a talk I gave to entrepreneurship students at London Business School and is a good first step when you’re entertaining a startup idea as a founder or investor.