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5 Ways Venture Capital Is Shaking Up The Tech Startup Landscape In Asia

YoungUpstarts

In China, tech giants like Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent Holdings, are going global to build their in-house capabilities. In Vietnam, a suitable climate for the startup landscape to thrive lies in state-owned enterprise reform. Instead of expanding further, this group might be considered by corporates for mergers and acquisitions.

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[Asia] Small Businesses Look To The Internet For Growth Opportunities

YoungUpstarts

Anu Madgavkar, senior fellow at the McKinsey Global Institute , shared these and more interesting insights into small businesses in Asia during a sharing session organized by search giant Google. In Vietnam, a 2011 McKinsey survey revealed that Vietnamese SMEs reported a 19.3%

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Staying Cyber Aware in a Crisis: Smart Tips for Nonprofit Boards

Board Effect

In considering a total risk management plan, boards, senior executives, and risk management teams need to be aware that cybercriminals are taking advantage of the current global crisis for their own benefit by using terms related to the crisis to commit cybercrimes. Underground forms are flooded with the same types of conversations.

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Janesville – A Story About the Rest of America

Steve Blank

When I got out of the Air Force after Vietnam, I lived in Michigan and I installed process control systems in automobile assembly plants and steel mills across the industrial heart of the Midwest. And while we gave those policies polite names like globalization and outsourcing, the consequences have wreaked havoc on towns like Janesville.

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27 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

If manufacturers can increase productivity , they can produce more without increasing costs, then they are more globally competitive. My parents were both refugees from Vietnam and had to support a family of five. I want to help make American Manufactures more competitive so that reshoring makes economic sense.

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Clusters, Class, Culture and Unfair Advantages

Steve Blank

The Vietnam War was raging, but going to college gave you a draft deferment.). 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. While college had been someone else’s dream, learning electronics became mine.

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Clusters, Class, Culture and Unfair Advantages

Steve Blank

The Vietnam War was raging, but going to college gave you a draft deferment.). 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. While college had been someone else’s dream, learning electronics became mine.

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