Year: 2022

SETTING UP FOREIGN OFFICES is almost always invaluable if you plan to do business or raise capital abroad. Most CEOs make the fatal mistake in thinking that this is costly (rent, phone, a secretary at least), heavy ear an tear on key staff (travel back and firth), and complex (wholly owned subsidiaries). None of these common objections are true. Done properly, with the right help, this can be a few hundred dollars a month. Done properly, they will greatly assist your foreign business activities. View in LinkedIn

ENTREPRENEURSHIP IS LEARNABLE? If this is indeed true, then everybody should be happy. More opportunity is better than less. Let us say the jury is still out, and let's see the data from great colleges like Babson who are training entrepreneurs. http://lnkd.in/ACHJVV View in LinkedIn

THE NUMBER OF VCs ARE HALF WHAT THEY WERE during boom times, and their criteria are tougher. However, counties like Turkey and others are trying to stimulate entrepreneurship, and it is expanding in unlikely places. The Crisis is imposing discipline and rigor and that is no bad thing. More carefully thought-out biz plans and more attentive investors have to be a step forward. http://lnkd.in/4SkZEQ View in LinkedIn

CANCER TREATMENT CONTINUES TO GET SMARTER as more companies pursue a marriage of molecular diagnostics and available therapies. This same trend is emerging beyond cancer, as diagnostics are refining patient subsets in a wide range of diseases, and matching them with new drugs. While this approach got off to a slow start, it is gathering popularity at last. http://lnkd.in/sDAMia View in LinkedIn

LINKEDIN IS ALSO GOOD FOR BD, be it strategic alliances, licensing, or raiding money. Not long ago one was forced to go to conferences to make that key contact, or try and find somebody to make an introduction. Now it is as simple as a few clicks. An easy prediction is that that these kinds of corporate interactions will increase, especially globally. http://lnkd.in/5DPQS8 View in LinkedIn

GREAT ADVICE, about exits, liquidity and the personal goals of entrepreneurs and investors alike. If these goals are congruent, less problems will emerge. However, if the entrepreneur has misread (or ignored) the exit timetable of the investor, significant conflict and unhappiness will arise. Always check the exit expectations of an investor BEFORE YOU PITCH so as to save everyone time. Never take money that is not aligned with your exit plans. . http://lnkd.in/zZPgKV View in LinkedIn

MANY DEALS REQUIRE RELATIONSHIP BUILDING and mutual respect to proceed, unless one of the key players is to depart. http://lnkd.in/i8NJM9 View in LinkedIn

THE BARCELONA ACCIÓ CONFERENCE at the end of January was full to capacity with entrepreneurs and investors: lively speakers, elevator pitches from companies ranging from specialty Pharma to IT, and full-on networking. Among the thousand or so attendees was a Boston entrepreneur, originally from Mumbai, who had moved to Barcelona with his family, because of the dynamic entrepreneurial environment. Barcelona has given birth to a tremendously dynamic and imaginative culture of young companies, and is no longer just a hot vacation destination. View in LinkedIn

BETTER TO FAIL TRYING THE IMPOSSIBLE THAN TO NEVER TRY. Conversations with entrepreneurs and mentors alike usually return to a central theme: it is a really exciting, interesting and somewhat crazy lifestyle, but once tasted, most people never go back to the steady workforce. They make themselves unemployable except in these high-octane environments. The second theme is always a great pride in changing the world, one brick at a time, and creating something out of nothing. View in LinkedIn

UNIVERSITIES ONLINE CAN LIFT MILLIONS OUT OF POVERTY is the theme of this article, and truly the emergence of an historical world change. The implicit equation is education equals a better workforce and thus jobs and opportunities. http://lnkd.in/UQXfva View in LinkedIn