Part III: The Power of Clones to Startup—Start-up Communities

Subjects in this post include: 1.)   Drive Growth and Innovation in the Supply Chain 2.)   Sidestep the Obstacles that Impede Scaling Up—Investor Attitudes to Risk & Failure 3.)   Controversy of Clonentrepreneurship: Cloning the Idea or Hatching a Start-Up? 4.)   The Spread of Clonentrepreneurship Last time in Part II, Cultures of Risk—Financing the Startup of Start-up Communities, I discussed: 1.)   The Cultural Divide:  What Investors ‘Buy’ 2.)   What Investors Fear 3.)   The Culture of Venture Capital:  Friend or Foe? Read Part…

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Part II: The Cultures of Risk—Financing the Startup of Start-up Communities

Subjects in this post: 1.)   The Cultural Divide:  What Investors ‘Buy’ 2.)   What Investors Fear 3.)   The Culture of Venture Capital:  Friend or Foe? Last time in Part I, I discussed: 1.)   First, Three Definitions 2.)   The Russia Tech Scene 3.)   Growth in Russia 4.)   What Changed for Growth to Emerge 5.)   The Spark that Ignited the Start-up of Russia Read Part I. Read the Introduction to the series. Summary from Part I:  Beginning about 2006, innovation became a priority…

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Part I: The Start-up of Russia. The Startup of Start-up Communities: The Power of Clones in Russia—& Beyond

Last time I introduced the questions as topics for answers in this five part post series: 1.)   What is the ‘spark’ that ignites the startup of start-up communities? 2.)   How does the ‘start-up’ of startup communities differ—emerging markets vs. developed countries? 3.)   Why is the US entrepreneurial model of experimentation, trial and error and pivoting a death sentence for entrepreneurs in the emerging markets? And what you can do about it. 4.)   How does the culture of risk and failure…

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