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7 Strategies To Prepare For Global Market Challenges

Startup Professionals Musings

This approach, popularly known as “ glocalization ,” means you have to design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market in which you operate. Remember when the Chevy Nova required a rename, once Chevrolet realized that Nova meant "no go" in the Spanish market (not a great name for a car).

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What Mattered in 2012: Rory Moore, CommNexus

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Dr. Paul Jacobs leading Qualcomm to be the most valuable (by market cap) chip company in the world and their reference designs and chip sets being a key contributor rolling out true wireless broadband throughout most of the US. In your opinion, what events, companies, or people made the biggest impact on the technology world this year?

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9 Innovative Startups To Watch For in 2024

Tech.Co

While the market isn't short of spritely, innovative entrepreneurs, harsh economic headwinds combined with a pullback in investor spending have made it harder than ever for budding businesses to break through. Source: runwayml.com In June, Runway raised $141 million in funding, nudging its market valuation to an envy-inducing $1.5

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SoCal Heads to SXSWi | 2012 Panel Picking Guide

Tech Zulu Event

The race to get your SXSWi panel to as many votes as possible so that you will be selected to present at the coming 2012 SXSW. Design: Developing for a Consumerized Enterprise World (BetterWorks). Marketing: Beyond the Buzzword: Reality of Direct-to-Fan (TopSpin, PledgeMusic, etc.). Its that time again!

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The Shed is a startup out of Virginia trying to revive the rental-for-everything business

TechCrunch LA

Launched by Karen Rodgers O’Neil, a longtime marketing executive, and Daniel Perrone, a serial entrepreneur and technology executive whose previous company, BroadMap, was acquired by Apple; The Shed hopes to take the rental model that Home Depot has turned into a billion dollar business line and take it to the masses.

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Resonant Files For IPO

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in an IPO on the Nasdaq Capital Market. The company said it is in its first commercial design with Skyworks Solutions. was spun out of Superconductor Technologies in 2012. was spun out of Superconductor Technologies in 2012. The company says is it looking to trade on the NASDAQ Capital Market under the symbol "RESN".

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Big tech companies are looking at Hollywood as the next stage in their play for the cloud

TechCrunch LA

Keeping the focus squarely on tools for artists and designers the company talked up its tools like Zync Render, which Google acquired back in 2014 , and Anvato, a video streaming and monetization platform it acquired in 2016. in Los Angeles. “That worldwide reach is very important,” Grignon said.

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