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Startup Map & Trends Analysis – September 2012

Gust

Other countries with a surge in new companies are Colombia, Australia, and Spain. The top industries stayed relatively unchanged from the previous month, with Internet/Web Services and Consumer Products and Services leading worldwide. Not surprisingly, many new startups across the world are in the development stage.

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ESADE Business School Commencement Speech

Steve Blank

Fast-forward to today—Apple is the most profitable Smartphone company in the world and in Spain Android commands a market share of more than 90%. Just look at the disruptive challenges that businesses face today– globalization, China as a manufacturer, China as a consumer, the Internet, and a steady stream of new startups.

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[Infographic] How The Digital World Fuels The Physical Economy

YoungUpstarts

How important is the Internet to the world’s economy? Consider this: the Internet accounts for 3.4% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 13 countries; that’s more than the total GDP for Canada and Spain. Others economy infographic Internet' Plenty, as you can imagine.

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Coping With Late Payment – Managing Asia’s Slow Payers

YoungUpstarts

DSO is the average number of days that a company takes to collect revenue after a sale has been made. A bank wire is not always a convenient mode of payment, especially for customers in China who do not use internet banking. In an economy where 50 per cent of exports are traded on an open account (i.e. Automated reminders.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

By the way, this was still pre-Netscape, pre-Internet. It was the closest I could get to Spain. I didn’t have someone willing to offer me a job in Spain. I thought if I could live and work in Spain I could become bilingual, but I never got the opportunity. It’s actually true. And then I went to England.

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How to Translate Your Passion Into Your Purpose

Duct Tape Marketing

billion in revenue and offices in over 100 cities around the globe. Liz is the founder of TransPerfect World's largest language solution company with over $1 billion in revenue and offices in more than 100 cities worldwide. We needed to bring in revenue as quickly as possible. I didn't know they threw this word in there for me.

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Will Meta’s Metaverse efforts survive the latest setbacks?

VC Cafe

It was supposed to be a light, positive announcement: Horizon Worlds, the company’s virtual world product that lets users create their own VR environments, was set to launch in France and Spain. Historically, innovation was always received with skepticism and sometimes ridiculed. For example, in 1998, Prof.

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