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“Sanzo is at its best when we serve as a bridge across cultures for both AAPI and non-AAPI.” CEO Sandro Roco on building a beverage startup, what to avoid in influencer deals, & protecting the brand.

Hunter Walker

Sandro Roco: I had the idea for Sanzo in 2018. At the same time, 2018 was the summer of LaCroix and other flavored sparkling water brands across a larger $45 billion carbonated soft drink category that has been in decline in the U.S. Here are Five Questions with Sandro. Hunter Walk: Backstory time! Crazy Rich Asians became the No.

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8 Strategies To Capitalize On Untapped Global Markets

Startup Professionals Musings

Assemble a distributed A-team from top world talent. The distributed model draws on a diverse pool, helps manage costs, and captures regional insights and focus necessary to win local customers. Facebook’s market value tumbled many billions in 2018 due to users’ decreased confidence in the platform.

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8 Keys To Real Innovation Outside of Silicon Valley

Startup Professionals Musings

Assemble a distributed A-team from top world talent. The distributed model draws on a diverse pool, helps manage costs, and captures regional insights and focus necessary to win local customers. Facebook’s market value tumbled many billions in 2018 due to users’ decreased confidence in the platform.

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The Boundaryless Era: the Time for Distributed Teams

ReadWriteStart

The boundaryless era, the time for distributed teams. Companies are relying on the engineering talent provided by remote, distributed, or as we call them , boundaryless teams. Remote-Distributed (a.k.a. Why have remote, distributed teams suddenly become the smart way to build software companies? But the world has changed.

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How The Covid-19 Pandemic Boosted Adoption Of Emerging Technologies In Southeast Asia

YoungUpstarts

The country has also been a strong supporter of distributed ledger technology and recently announced that their blockchain payments project, Project Ubin , is ready for mainstream commercial deployment. Shaun is also a Regional Partner at Kenetic Capital, an institutional platform for blockchain advisory, technology and investment.

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boldstart in 2017, enterprise tech in 2018

BeyondVC

Before diving into yet another year and list of predictions for enterprise in 2018, wed like to recap a few thoughts and moments from 2017. There will be more deep enterprise tech startups founded, funded, launched, and scaled out of NYC in 2018. This will be a huge boon in data and security spend in 2018 directly tied to this.

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boldstart 2018 recap and what’s hot in enterprise 2019

BeyondVC

2018 Recap. Thanks to all of the amazing founders, advisors, co-investors, corporate partners, and others that helped make 2018 an amazing year. While the cloud wars, AI, automation, and digital transformation dominated the enterprise headlines in 2018, we have to remember that we are still early in the cycle.