Emerging Economies | January 02, 2018 |
The year was brilliant. 2017 ended with such hope for Emerging Economies; startup ecosystems matured, deep techs started getting their due, non-serious e-commerce players were shown the door, easy VC money in early stage deals became a question which further led to bootstrapping focus. In all, Emerging Economies shown a lot of resilience.
The New Year Digest on Emerging Economies cover trends, challenges and opportunities of ecosystems, secret sauce from the startup nation, a global map of startups for you to click and learn, and some Unicorn list if you still dig the mythical animal. Overall, a compendium of sorts for the year to look forward to!
Have a great year ahead. Hope we have got juice here to excite about the economies and the world at large. Share if you think if we have curated a good one.
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| | Arthur Gopak - AlphaGamma Entrepreneurship is clearly on the rise. More entrepreneurs start new ventures and consider entrepreneurship as a career option. Yet, what are the differences between how businesses are conducted between different parts of the world and how to prepare for that? Read on. | | JEFF DESJARDINS - Visual Capitalist COLLECTIVELY, THEY'RE NOW WORTH $116.5BFor a startup, reaching the coveted $1 billion unicorn valuation is an important milestone – but as we've found out in recent years, it's not necessarily a guarantee of future success.In 2017, there were 57 startups that crossed the unicorn threshold, and they range from well-known companies, such as Reddit or Quora, to rapid-risers like China's Toutiao (now valued at $20 billion), which has seemingly come out of nowhere.
Investors have conviction that these companies will provide the platforms and products of the future, and they are placing big bets on them to deliver. Will they live up to the hype, or will they ultimately end up in the unicorn graveyard? | | Amar Babu AR and VR technologies will certainly herald improvements in health and education services – it is just a matter of when. The nexus point for mainstream change in emerging markets includes several factors: maturing AR and VR technologies, the lowering cost of hardware and device delivery, and an increase in readily available education content and health-related applications. | | Alireza Jozi Every ecosystem has its unique challenges and unique advantages. Iran's startup ecosystem is no different. By identifying the key challenges of a startup ecosystem, ecosystem stakeholders, entrepreneurs, investors, government officials, universities and startup community builders can have a better understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of the ecosystem, and find solutions to solve these challenges and obstacles, in order to have a much more vibrant and faster growing ecosystem. | | Denis Opudo - Tech In Africa South Africa being the icon of the African continent attracts world-class investors, renowned investment firms behind the paradigm shift in the business and technology landscape. South Africa-based developers have been as well able to pitch their innovations in the similar tune. Get to view some of the out-of-this-world start-up businesses delivering real solutions to South Africans and the rest of the world. | | CB Insights The year's emerging trends to watch and high-momentum startups with world-changing potential is here.
Using the CB Insights tech market intelligence platform, we identified high-momentum companies pioneering technology that could solve the world's biggest problems.We'll dive into 10 sectors and 30 companies that could change the world, ranging from engineering organs and creating lab-grown animal products to developing processing units for AI applications and automating construction. | | StartupBlink.com Welcome to StartupBlink's Global Startup Map where you can browse over 60936 startups.Want to explore the map? Here are some of the ways you can get started:
StartupBlink ranks more than 125 countries and 950 cities according to their startup ecosystem strength. Toggle between Countries/Cities ranking, search for a specific location, and download the full report elaborating on the results and the methodology used. Each location total score is the sum of the 3 columns of: Quantity of Startups, Quality of Startups, and Business environment.
| | Dr. Hempel Digital Health Network Israel has about 4000 startups, and 40,000 people work in the high-tech industry. This for a small country with nearly eight million inhabitants! Startups contribute 15 percent of the export GDP and raise 2.5 times more venture capital per person than the US and 30 times more than Europeans raise. This makes Israel the second most innovative country globally. However, only about a tenth of employment in Israel is related to this innovation, and most of the ideas are exported rather than brought into production in Israel.
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