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Export Online Without Frontiers: A Global Map of B2B Marketplaces

The Startup Magazine

If you are looking to export to Asia, I have good news for you: Asia is definitely the place where online marketplaces are more consolidated. The largest ones are Alibaba, Global Sources, DHgate, EC21, Tradekey, Asia Trade Hub, and go4WorldBusiness. Opportunity Network is a marketplace backed by banks. B2B Marketplaces in Asia.

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Why a Company Can’t “Be More Like a Startup”

Steve Blank

As more and more companies face disruption from globalization, new technology, and startups that have more capital than the incumbents, the continuing cry from Wall Street investors is, “Why can’t companies be as innovative as startups?”. In the past, these anti-innovation tools were sufficient to keep new entrants out.

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10 Digital Startup Conferences You Should Attend This Year

YoungUpstarts

This is particularly true in the early stages of a new venture when you may be a solopreneur or working with a very small team. Or where you can network with established, successful founders and investors? You will learn from their successes and their missteps alike through a series of workshops, presentations and networking events.

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10 College Business Incubators We’re Most Excited About

YoungUpstarts

Follow along as we explore 10 of the most exciting college business incubators around today, and be sure to share your own favorites in the comments: Entrepreneurs Hall @ The RIT Global Village. NYU-Poly has not one, but four business incubators, boasting incredible support for fledgling businesses in the greater New York City area.

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The R/GA Connected Devices Accelerator, Powered by Techstars

Feld Thoughts

The newest accelerator, based in New York City, is called the R/GA Connected Devices Accelerator. R/GA is part of Interpublic Group of Companies, one of four global ad holding companies, and is the most award-winning agency in the digital world today.

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All The Questions You Wanted Answered about Bird Scooters and Their Recent $300 Million Funding

Both Sides of the Table

Ah, but Bird doesn’t have network effects! Of course you can have a few competitors and still find enough charges but once you’ve gotten 2–3 big players in any city it’s hard to imagine many more players building out as efficient of a charger network as the early innovator. There is nothing viral! Not really. Why scooters?

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Top 5 Tips To Successfully Recruit Creative Talent

YoungUpstarts

Sometimes hiring managers have fixed ideas that prevent them from objectively evaluating candidates when putting together national or global teams. Austin has a relatively small tech community, so reputation is a stronger factor there than it would be in a huge market like New York City.