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Born Global or Die Local – Building a Regional Startup Playbook

Steve Blank

Creating a vertically oriented regional ecosystem is a pretty amazing accomplishment for any country or industry. But other critical hypotheses such as activities, resources, partners, channels needed testing offshore. to understand distribution channel landscape, potential partners and rough cost of customer acquisition.

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HOW TO: Build an App for Your Small Business

mashable.com

If you feel like looking for offshore developer talent, you can try Softensity. Here, developers and dev shops are organized by vertical so you can find a shop that has expertise in the kind of app you want to build. How do you know who will be willing and able to work on your project? Image credits: Flickr, goincase.