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Welcome To The New Wave Of Opportunities And Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

My friends who “grew up” with lifetime careers in General Motors, Exxon Mobil, or even IBM, are now often too embarrassed to even mention it. Having only a large capital base and distribution channels, with no innovation, is not a sustainable business model. Outsourcing and manufacturing “offshore” have become the norm.

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New Entrepreneurs Are Rebuilding Our Business Engine

Startup Professionals Musings

My friends who “grew up” with lifetime careers in General Motors, Exxon Mobil, or even IBM, are now often too embarrassed to even mention it. Having only a large capital base and distribution channels, with no innovation, is not a sustainable business model. Outsourcing and manufacturing “offshore” have become the norm.

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Entrepreneurs Can Revitalize The Image Of Business

Startup Professionals Musings

My friends who “grew up” with lifetime careers in General Motors, Exxon Mobil, or even IBM, are now often too embarrassed to even mention it. Having only a large capital base and distribution channels, with no innovation, is not a sustainable business model. Outsourcing and manufacturing “offshore” have become the norm.

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It’s Time For A New Way Of Thinking About Business

Startup Professionals Musings

My friends who “grew up” with lifetime careers in General Motors, Exxon Mobil, or even IBM, are now often too embarrassed to even mention it. Having only a large capital base and distribution channels, with no innovation, is not a sustainable business model. Outsourcing and manufacturing “offshore” have become the norm.

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Large Corporations Fail To Innovate Like Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

My friends who “grew up” with lifetime careers in General Motors, Exxon Mobil, or even IBM, are now often too embarrassed to even mention it. Having only a large capital base and distribution channels, with no innovation, is not a sustainable business model. Outsourcing and manufacturing “offshore” have become the norm.

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Seed Stage Firms are Dead, Long Live Micro VCs

Genuine VC

Of course CapEx has been transformed into OpEx via changes in the tech infrastructure layer (open source, virtualization & cloud computing, offshoring, etc.).

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Born Global or Die Local – Building a Regional Startup Playbook

Steve Blank

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. Creating a vertically oriented regional ecosystem is a pretty amazing accomplishment for any country or industry.

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