Growthink Blog

AUGUST 29, 2010

Since the great “financial crisis” of 2008-2009, the firm’s clientele – really without us even trying – has becoming increasingly global. In the last 6 months, we have advised clients and investors, in no particular order, from Kenya, India, Italy, South Africa, Germany, China, Brazil, Mexico, Switzerland, the U.A.E.,

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 20, 2014

Nick Vujicic is a man on a global mission. A celebrated speaker, he gets invitations to speak from all over the world – Australia (Melbourne was his childhood home), Europe, US, China, India, Africa, and South East Asia (including Singapore ). And boy is he creating waves wherever he goes.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 26, 2012

This payment solution was beta-tested by merchants such as Russian-themed restaurant and caviar bar Buyan in Singapore since June last year, and is now launched worldwide, with the company targeting Southeast Asia, South Africa and South America as key target markets.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Bonnie’s partner is Vickie Sokol Evans, a globally recognized expert on practical real-world tech skills. During this one-day workshop , Executive Assistants will absorb skills that don’t come from a book or an informative article, including stress-management strategies, assertiveness skills, and delegation techniques.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 5, 2019

What they created transcended our concept of hospitality into a global culture that blends the digital and the physical, forges a vibrant sense of community between millions of husts and guests, and — as a business — inspires unprecedented loyalty. This summer, for example, I spoke in Singapore, Australia and South Africa.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 19, 2020

“Because COVID is shaking our habits and beliefs it opens the door to discussion to whether we should change our whole system,” says veteran investor Sir Ronald Cohen, chairman of the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment and the man known as “the father of British venture capital” .

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Because of a global donor blood shortage, particularly in emerging markets, clinicians and patients don’t have enough access to donor blood. Carolyn Yarina , Co-Founder and CEO of Sisu Global Health. What is your top goal for Sisu Global for 2020? We are proud to be a Baltimore-based company with global reach.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 27, 2019

So it is an increasingly global community. So it has become increasingly global over the years. Matt Cooper: I think for us, specifically, we ultimately want to be the go-to global destination for online creative learning. Matt Cooper: Yes, we’re actually in pretty much every country I’m aware of.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 24, 2012

Our startups get tons of hands-on support – much more than they’d get almost anywhere else in the world,” says Lorcan O’Sullivan, manager of Enterprise Ireland , one of the latest of the many campaigns by governments around the globe to attract startups to their shores and inject new life into their local economies. “Of

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Here are a few examples of these larger groups: The Africa Grantmakers’ Affinity Group (AGAG) is a membership organization of foundations that either fund or are interested in funding in Africa. AGAG has its roots in the South Africa. Tom Cleveland is a writer for SmallBusinessLoansDirect.com.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 6, 2019

She is the Founder and Managing Partner of Backstage Capital, a venture capital firm dedicated to minimizing funding disparities in tech by investing in high-potential founders who are people of color, women, and/or LGBT.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 15, 2011

Plus, I don’t really want to be managing people while being responsible for them. I am not originally Australian – I was born and raised in South Africa and then Ireland, before moving here as a teenager. It is not what gives me joy – it just adds to my stress.

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Up and Running

JUNE 13, 2015

If you want to stay competitive in the global marketplace where there is a study recently in the United States that said that, “By the 2020 over half of the workforce will be freelanced,” meaning they won’t just have one gate, they won’t just have one-day job. Well, we took a leap,” and I said, “Oh, okay. How old did that take?

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 16, 2017

Unemployment is a huge problem in South Africa and being employed is associated with having a good quality life or in many cases even having a life at all. As I transitioned my career from offline luxury bridal retail and wedding planning to online destination wedding management, I envisioned the logo for my business before the name.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 19, 2010

But overinvest in people and everything that is required to make those people successful: invest in process, invest in their training, invest in large monitors for them, invest in backing them up against senior management, invest in involving them in key business strategy meetings, invest in… you catch my drift). Google Website Optimizer.

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