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Global Perspective: Current Opportunities for Low-Cost Manufacturing in China

The Startup Magazine

More recently, US President Donald Trump’s trade war with China has led to apprehension that US-based companies will be moving their production from Chinese manufacturers to factories in other low-cost countries such as India, Thailand and Vietnam. Few other countries can match China in this – be it India, Thailand or Vietnam.

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Clusters, Class, Culture and Unfair Advantages

Steve Blank

Forty years later when the Internet has made knowledge global, we’ve run into the second barrier – just knowing about things is not the great equalizer we expected. My first week on the base our shop chief announced: “We’re looking for some volunteers to go to Thailand.” I found a job in Ann Arbor working as a field engineer.

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My Top 10 Methods To Make Money Online

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

The following article details my personal top 10 methods to make money from the Internet. In Brisbane where I live, before the Internet there was a newspaper called the Trading Post that was published every two weeks. As a result my first experience making any money from the Internet was selling old games, toys and electronics on eBay.

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Clusters, Class, Culture and Unfair Advantages

Steve Blank

Forty years later when the Internet has made knowledge global, we’ve run into the second barrier – just knowing about things is not the great equalizer we expected. My first week on the base our shop chief announced: “We’re looking for some volunteers to go to Thailand.” I found a job in Ann Arbor working as a field engineer.

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You Can’t Spell Hardware without H-A-R-D

K9 Ventures

In fact, in college I used to joke that Electrical and Computer Engineers could write better code that Computer Scientists (not something I would argue about as voraciously now). Sourcing may also involve several trips to China, India, Thailand, or other countries and cities that you may not otherwise consider traveling to for vacation.

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London Calling

Startup Lessons Learned

Wednesday, January 11- Dublin, Ireland I’ll be facilitating in the Internet Growth Acceleration Programme (iGAP) program. Summer 2012) Russia – Alpina (July 2012) Thailand - WeLearn Korea – Insight Press China - China Citic Press For iGAP participants only. Register here.

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A dumb American’s perspective on investing in Southeast Asia

Hippoland

People in the US can pay for things electronically and can get most services and goods today from the internet – things in the US generally work, so improvements in these areas are all incremental. I think this explains why we tend to see consumer businesses emerge first – tech-savvy internet users are easiest to reach.

Asia 48