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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. Target a global market rather than a local from day one. Marty Zwilling

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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. Target a global market rather than a local from day one.

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Going Global: How To Build A Distributed Team

YoungUpstarts

Going global is often a requisite growth path for businesses seeking to expand and whilst the model of setting up satellite offices is a tried and tested way to expand overseas a more recent organizational model is that of ‘distributed’ teams or companies. Global Payroll, Cross-Border Payments, and HR compliance.

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5 Phases Of Every Startup That Regulate Your Success

Startup Professionals Musings

Big company powerhouses, like IBM and Xerox, took fifty years to make the cycle, but new companies today, in the age of the Internet, often make the cycle in five to ten years, or even less. This phase is characterized by rapid expansion either regionally or globally for growth (scaling up). Consider MySpace and Webvan. Consolidation.

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How Online Video Companies Can Increase Margin and Build Better Businesses

Both Sides of the Table

And if you accept that premise then you have to accept that the future of the Internet will be dominated by video. And global. Content goes global (of Maker Studios 4.4 Think of the Internet, short-formate equivalent of Discovery, NatGeo, E! Build a Global Business. Much of it already is. Not so fast.

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7 Modern Day Business Strategies For Long-Term Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

In these days of global competition via multiple channels, you need continuous marketing to find more customers. More and more customers today do their initial shopping on the Internet, and they won’t even believe you exist if you have no presence, or the content is stale. They won’t find you.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

Many people don’t realize that the majority of the monetization of the Internet originated in Los Angeles but was perfected in Silicon Valley. The monetization engine of the Internet that powers the most profitable business perhaps in history was invented and perfected in Los Angeles and is what you now know as Google Ad Words.