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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. The idea is to build excellence in one area, and get the rest from the ecosystem.

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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

And the globalization of entrepreneurship means the worldwide pool of potential startups has increased at least 100-fold since the turn of this century. What this means is that the emergence of incubators and super angels have dramatically expanded the sources of seed capital. VCs have now ceded more control to founders.

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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. The idea is to build excellence in one area, and get the rest from the ecosystem.

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Book: The Rise of the Rest

Feld Thoughts

Steve Case’s new book, The Rise of the Rest: How Entrepreneurs in Surprising Places are Building the New American Dream , is out. He created Rise of Rest and did the first of many bus tours in 2014. I’ve worked with Steve and his team on multiple initiatives, including Startup America and Up Global.

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8 Aspects Of Team Well-Being Drive Business Results

Startup Professionals Musings

by Donna Cutting, who is a globally-recognized guru on employee culture and optimizing customer service. You probably already understand this dimension, which includes how well your team members observe healthy living habits, including nutrition, exercise, and rest, both at work and outside. Emotional stability.

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6 Ways To Make Your Solution Stand Out Above The Rest

Startup Professionals Musings

In today’s ease of global communication, people buy from people, not from companies. On the other hand, it's easy to overlook the value of personalization because it either seems too simple or too complex to bother. Grow customer relationships versus transactions.

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Pandemic, Boom, War, Correction. So Now What for Tech?

View from Seed

Globalization goes in reverse. Globalization is going in reverse for the first time in 3 decades. China also emerged from decades of socialist isolation to engage with the rest of the world, employing a market based “socialism” with Chinese characteristics. But the tide of globalization is starting to ebb.

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