Friction points to ‘Scaling Up’

Scaling Up Start-up Communities: Engage Risk as Your Friend, not a Foe—to Impact Investor DNA—& Raise $ for Your Venture

The most frequent complaint I hear from entrepreneurs in the emerging markets is the lack of risk capital in their country; investors willing to finance start-ups and early stage companies. Many founders travel to America seeking money and connections in the US venture ecosystem. While a few are able to raise cash, most don’t—and return home empty handed—to face an unknown future. With trillions of dollars invested in food & beverage, fast moving consumer goods, retailing, wholesaling and construction to…

Keeping Entrepreneurship Alive

New Series, beginning soon, ‘Keeping Entrepreneurship Alive.’ The idea for this series came from a post to Brad Field’s blog Startup Revolution»Communities by Namek Zu’bi from Jordan, titled ‘Young Startup Communities: Beware of the Excitment Bubble.’

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…