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8 Strategies To Capitalize On Untapped Global Markets

Startup Professionals Musings

In my experience, the Silicon Valley startup model, focused on disrupting established industries, has treated the USA well and created some great global businesses. In effect, Silicon Valley needs to take a more global perspective. Target a global market rather than a local from day one.

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8 Keys To Real Innovation Outside of Silicon Valley

Startup Professionals Musings

In my experience, the Silicon Valley startup model, focused on disrupting established industries, has treated the USA well and created some great global businesses. In effect, Silicon Valley needs to take a more global perspective. Target a global market rather than a local from day one.

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Internet Growth Means Big Changes For How Businesses Connect

YoungUpstarts

By John Curran, President and CEO of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN). When the Internet was first conceived as a better way for computers to communicate with one another, no one could predict the impact it would have on business communications. billion of them.

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

The Startup Magazine

Their primary motivation has been the fact that manufacturing costs in Chinese factories are lower than those in the US or Europe. The internet: Looking for a Chinese factory on the internet may seem like looking for a needle in a haystack, but persevere. Source: Pixabay. There are four main ways to do this.

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7 Reasons To Think Globally While Still New And Local

Startup Professionals Musings

New entrepreneurs who want to survive, and optimize the growth of their startups, need to think globally, and act locally, from day one. This approach, popularly known as “ glocalization ,” means you have to design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market in which you operate.

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7 Strategies To Prepare For Global Market Challenges

Startup Professionals Musings

New entrepreneurs who want to survive, and optimize the growth of their startups, need to think globally, and act locally, from day one. This approach, popularly known as “ glocalization ,” means you have to design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market in which you operate.

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Plenty of Dry powder for Europe and Israel VC funds

VC Cafe

The American VC funds are now coming to Europe , seeing European startups as a new asset class worth investing in. The dry powder in Europe seems to go way beyond the ski slopes. Another question is around exits in Europe , and availability of late stage capital. The challenges is Israel are different than in Europe.

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