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Why a Company Can’t “Be More Like a Startup”

Steve Blank

As more and more companies face disruption from globalization, new technology, and startups that have more capital than the incumbents, the continuing cry from Wall Street investors is, “Why can’t companies be as innovative as startups?”. In the past, these anti-innovation tools were sufficient to keep new entrants out.

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Global wealth inequality has reached egregious levels

The Equity Kicker

We are now a global society and wealth inequality is now a phenomenon best understood globally. The problem is that our governments are still national, and national governments can’t control global capital. 62 people having the same wealth as 3.6bn others is definitely not fair.

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Sprint Like An Egyptian: A Tech Entrepreneurship Revolution in Alexandria

Gust

How spoiled we are, taking for granted a system of government with relatively stable, transparent laws and regulations, consistently applied (at least in theory), and subject to judicial oversight with appellate review. Distributed teams can work across multiple countries in ways that make the most efficient use of human capital.

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Going Global: How Huddle Handled The Challenge

ReadWriteStart

That advice comes from Huddle CEO Alastair Mitchell, who runs a company that went from being a British sensation to a global corporation over the past few years. governments. ” In seven years, it has grown to employ more than 150 people in London, San Francisco, New York and Washington, D.C. .”

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Export Online Without Frontiers: A Global Map of B2B Marketplaces

The Startup Magazine

That could be a standard sale contract, i.e. buy and sell single items or batches, or a partnership agreement, i.e. contract manufacturing, sales agency, or distribution agreement. If you are looking to export to Asia, I have good news for you: Asia is definitely the place where online marketplaces are more consolidated.

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“Growth and scaling are the hardest things to get right” - Chainalysis’ Michael Gronager

Cracking the Code

It’s been quite a journey getting here and there’s still a way to go as cryptocurrencies integrate with our global financial system. He shared his tips for building a global business, hiring, what he’d do differently and more… The Chainalysis journey ? How did you initially think about going global from a sales perspective?

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Crisis versus Opportunity: 6 Ways to Bootstrap a Startup in a Post-COVID-19 World While Navigating the New Normal

ReadWriteStart

Thus, let’s start this discussion by defining the global crisis caused by the new coronavirus, COVID-19 , so that we can look forward to finding the opportunity in the crisis. One of the many challenges facing the world’s governments is the fact that no one really knows how this virus behaves. .” – Albert Einstein.