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eFishery Secures $200 Million Funding, Becomes Indonesia’s First Aquaculture Unicorn

ReadWriteStart

The funding will be critical in supporting eFishery’s ambitious plans to expand its operations both within Indonesia and internationally. The farmers are able to remotely monitor and control the feeding process using their smartphones, which allows the system to function by automatically distributing feed to the aquatic animals.

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Born Global or Die Local – Building a Regional Startup Playbook

Steve Blank

China, Russia, Brazil, India, Indonesia all meet those criteria. to understand distribution channel landscape, potential partners and rough cost of customer acquisition. Outside the U.S. Obviously this depends on industry and application.) Identify activities/resources/partners locally and then globally. Get seed funding in Australia.

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A dumb American’s perspective on investing in Southeast Asia

Hippoland

But it’s arguably even harder in a place where there aren’t ready distribution channels. The market that everyone seems to hone in on is Indonesia. Indonesia has 250m+ people, so it’s close to the size of the US. So maybe you start with Indonesia if you’re familiar with the market? Payments / marketplaces / etc).

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A dumb American’s perspective on investing in Southeast Asia

Hippoland

But it’s arguably even harder in a place where there aren’t ready distribution channels. The market that everyone seems to hone in on is Indonesia. Indonesia has 250m+ people, so it’s close to the size of the US. So maybe you start with Indonesia if you’re familiar with the market? Payments / marketplaces / etc).

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Greenpeace vs Kitkat

Start Up Blog

Now that we all have access to information distribution we have as much power as they do on important issues. In addition Nestles corporate strategy of removing it, only fueled the fire and cause it to be shared around and had the opposite of the desired effect. Big companies will have to realize that they can’t hide stuff anymore.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Week 7

Steve Blank

In companies this would be product line extensions, more efficient supply chain, new distribution channels. ” In slides 4- 11 they describe what they learned about illegal fishing in Indonesia (Thanks again to the State Departments innovation outpost.) Now they’ve realized that the SAR data and analytics is the business.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 14 – Planning– Major General Mike Fenzel

Steve Blank

And as you start to distribute your forces, they are almost by definition, they begin to be cut off. There are others that we’d welcome to be brought in as well, like Vietnam, like Indonesia. If you’re talking about a European Theater you’re talking in terms of hours. Then there is the concomitant challenge of logistics.