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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 funding will be critical in supporting eFishery’s ambitious plans to expand its operations both within Indonesia and internationally. The remarkable annual output of 5.8

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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. For example, one of the critical business model hypotheses they could test locally is Product/Market fit – the connection between their Value Proposition (what product or service they were building) and the Customer Segment (who they were building it for.).

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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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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Week 7

Steve Blank

Minimal viable products are being demo’d to sponsors and sponsors are reacting to what the teams are learning. In companies this would be product line extensions, more efficient supply chain, new distribution channels. Their Minimum Viable Product can be seen on slides 12-16 using this illegal fishing data.

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Greenpeace vs Kitkat

Start Up Blog

That we will pay more for ethical products. 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.

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8 Strategies To Capitalize On Untapped Global Markets

Startup Professionals Musings

In other parts of the world, innovators often need to develop both the ultimate product or service, as well as the enabling infrastructure that underpins it. Thus Uber’s ride sharing evolved to Gojek in Indonesia, to include delivering food, packages, and even financial services. Assemble a distributed A-team from top world talent.

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