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What’s Plan B? – The Small, the Agile, and the Many

Steve Blank

The sum of these Chinese offset strategies means that in the South China Sea the U.S. This does not bode well for our treaty allies, Japan, the Philippines, and South Korea. And they plan for a distributed fleet architecture, including 321 to 372 manned ships and 77 to 140 large, unmanned vehicles.

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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. Asia Trade Hub, based in India, Tradekey, based in Saudi Arabia, and EC21, based in South Korea, are the only pan-Asia marketplaces.

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Coronavirus: Will It Boost the Adoption Of Remote Work?

Transformify

Managing distributed workforce and remote teams was not something totally new for them. When it came to preparation, it helped that South Korea had one hell of a practice run: the MERS outbreak in 2015 that caused 38 deaths. Culturally, businesses in countries like Japan and South Korea are centralized and location-oriented.

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Big Tech’s Competitor? Government

Andrew Payne

They rewrote the rules for channels and distribution, creating new livelihoods for countless authors and small businesses. Interestingly, the gorillas are now forced to deal with a growing number of government-like political issues. Activist employees at Google and Microsoft lobby against business practices they find objectionable.

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

We currently operate a large 17,000 square foot facility, 5 stores to sell products in, and a distribution business to sell the product to retailers. I graduated college during the 2008 financial crisis and took a career ‘gap year’ to head to South Korea and teach English. We have worked with over 700 food companies.

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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. We need to wait for the government to fix it." Government is. Those aren't major geographies for Khan Academy, but we do have users there.

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Out of the Crisis #21: Tomas Pueyo on the hammer and the dance, political polarization, and how the pandemic will affect the way we live and work

Startup Lessons Learned

And then, once that curve is low enough, governments can dance, testing and tracking cases until the virus is eradicated or we develop a working vaccine. They didn't have experience buying bulk from the government things like masks or ventilators." Had we been able to apply this strategy simultaneously nationwide, the U.S.