Steps To Transform An Idea Into A Global Business

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If you are reading this, then it is obvious that you have read about one or more young entrepreneurs living their dreams and you are also inspired to start your own business. You are probably searching for that one idea that can fetch you billions and make your business global. Before you begin this journey, know that ideas are overrated and hard work is underrated. You can browse through the list of thousands of startups on Crunchbase and AngelList and you will realize their business ideas are very innovative but why do most of those startups die unnoticed?

I picked most of the points from globally successful entrepreneurs while they talked about their keys to success.

The Next Trend In The Automobile Industry: Electric, Self-Driving, Flying Or None Of The Above?

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The automobile industry has proven to be one of the top revenue-generating industries. Automobile companies are partnering with certain startups in order to lead a revolution that is forthcoming. General Motors invested $5O0m in ride-hailing startup Lyft and also acquired a self-driving car startup; Cruise. Let’s talk about some current and emerging trends then we can identify what they all have in common and what they are all missing out on.

The ride-hailing model has birthed unicorn startups like; Lyft, Uber and Didi Chuxing. These startups are among the most funded and the most valued startups presently. Uber is succeeding in penetrating the Middle East with a $3billion funding from Saudi Arabia. So will people stop buying cars and driving their own cars to adopt this model?

Facebook.com Has Competition But Facebook Inc. Is Still Enjoying Market Dominance

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The rise of mobile messaging apps is gotten a number of social media companies out of business due to a reduction in traffic and monthly active users. Facebook.com which has over 1billion users is also getting hurt by the rise in mobile messaging apps. Millennials, who are the most active users of social media sites, are flocking to instant messaging apps including SnapChat, WeChat as well as Line.

Tech behemoths including Microsoft and Google have being trying to get Facebook out of business by beating them for the market share of the social media industry. GooglePlus which was supposed to be Google’s answer to facebook.com has not being very successful against the social media giant. Facebook’s site has more clicks than Google’s search engine. Microsoft’s social media, so.cl, could not gain grounds in the market.

Dear Brand Manager, You Are Marketing Completely Wrong To My Generation (Gen Z)

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Millennials are undoubtedly the target market of most emerging brands. Thus, it has become very essential for marketers, advertisers, sales people and even serial entrepreneurs to be able to enter into the minds of the next greatest generation; Gen Z. Gen Z is the generation born after the year 1994. Most of the members of Gen Z are still in school and are not earning salaries or wages yet. So why will a company place priority on Gen Z as a target market? Well, remove the younger millennials from Facebook and Snapchat and they will have few numbers of active users. In 2015, Snapchat removed Yahoo from its Discover services because Yahoo was not relevant to their target audience; the younger millennials.

The younger millennials live in a world of their own; they are mostly below the age of 21 so majority of them have not started working.

The Value Investing Approach To Venture Capitalism

Value investing and venture capitalism have more in common than meets the eye. They both adopt mutual investment strategies in identifying phenomenon businesses to invest in. The value investing approach is preferred by most venture capitalists like Marc Andreessen because it is also a long-term approach as compared to growth investing and other investing approaches. Growth investors trade stocks using a short-term approach. Value investors and venture capitalists search for businesses with great growth potentials especially in the long-term. Value investors like Warren Buffett and venture capitalists like Paul Graham take into consideration the integrity of the leadership of the business. They invest in businesses whose management can be trusted. If they are uncomfortable with the leadership of a business, they simply avoid the business.

Recruitment Industry: The market investors and entrepreneurs are over-looking.

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There are more people getting hired than fired. There are more cases of recruitment as compared to retirement. That alone shows us that, the recruitment industry is not going anywhere anytime soon. In the US market, the recruitment industry gained revenues of $28billion in 2015. The role of a recruiter is to find highly qualified and productive talent pools and match them with great companies. Most often, a recruiter’s service to a company ends when the candidate is employed. As simple as it may seem, finding an untapped talent pool can be very challenging. Most employers use social media for recruiting candidates.

These Startups Are Taking Over The Stock Exchange

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Creating a stock exchange is not something that can be easily replicated by everyone. Most investors are accustomed to investing in the older stock exchanges so they may not want to risk their money by putting it in a whole new concept. These startups are recognized by the SEC and they aim to disrupt the stock market. In an age, where there is a rise in equity crowdfunding, startups like CircleUp and CrowdCube seek to seize the moment. However, equity crowdfunding firms should not be confused with stock exchanges. With crowdfunding, you could be investing in ideas which have not yet being launched or projects which are in their early stages. These are the stock exchange startups in a quest to take over the stock market:

Startups Uber Should Buy

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Uber, the lead name among unicorn startup lists, has amassed lots of wealth from funding and operating income valuing the startup at $62.5billion. Travis Kalanick admits to getting pressure from investors and other tech moguls to file for an IPO. However, Mr. Kalanick feels the company is still in its early stage and still learning. Thus, Uber may not be rushing into an IPO anytime soon though it has the potential to break Alibaba’s record IPO funding. In recent years, the top tech unicorns including; Uber, Xiaomi, Snapchat, Airbnb and a host of others have being reluctant to file for an IPO but considering the large amount of fundings these unicorns raise, it is understandable if they choose to remain private for some extra years. Uber has not made any major company acquisitions yet.
Travis Kalanick does not like the description of Uber as a company in the on-demand industry but prefers Uber to be recognized as a company in the logistics industry and as such, the company launched a food delivery startup UberEats. In view of this, here is a list of startups Uber should consider buying to boost its revenue and management.
1) Roadie: There is always someone leaving here to go there. Roadie is a shipping startup which is competing with big names like Fedex and UPS. Started by the founder of Kabbage, Marc Gorlin, Roadie pays travelers heading to a particular place with an extra space in their cars, to make a same-day delivery of goods and services. Backed by musician, Ludacris, the company has raised over $10m in funding from Eric Schmidt’s Tomorrow Ventures, Warren Stephens and many notable venture capitalists.

List Of Startups That Will Still Generate Profits Even After Decades

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At least 91% of tech startups today will not be profitable after just a decade. Most tech startups were born out of a desire from a guy who had seen videos/pictures of young entrepreneurs who ride in private jets since they started their own business. Most of the unicorn startups will either be acquired, shutdown, or file for bankruptcy. Legendary investors like Warren Buffett avoid investing in startups. Most startups thrive due to the attention and hype they get from the media. If they ever get the kind of criticisms companies like Coca-Cola does, they will be out of business within a decade. Here are the exceptions:
1. One Plus: The technology startup which was founded in December, 2013 is a maker of smartphones, power banks, smartphone cases and others. The China based startup is the developer of the “Oxygen OS”, an operating system for the One Plus smartphones including “One Plus X”.
With their mantra “Never Settle”, it looks like “One Plus” has no plan to accept the second best title despite the Apple, Huawei and fellow Chinese startup Xiaomi’s competition.

List Of Innovative Ideas By The Latest Startups

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Lots of companies started businesses from ideas that were way ahead of its time. Ideas alone are not a guarantee to success. In a time when it feels all the monopolistic ideas have already being taken, some new startups are arriving with ideas that the rest of their industry players never thought of. While some ideas may be overrated, some ideas are just deserving of the attention and funding they earn. As venture capitalist Peter Thiel puts it; “Some ideas just can’t wait” So this is a list of disruptive startups with ideas that can fetch them billions.

1.  SleepHero: An app to help parents get more sleep, SleepHero app is a sound-activated app that soothes a toddler back to sleep when they wake up at midnight crying in his or her cot out of the parent’s absence. The app plays a voice recording of a parent doing the audible things his or her baby loves (be it singing, telling a story,or even repeated sounds of humor) to the baby.