The Runaways (including guitarist Joan Jett pictured at left) were the first girl rock group to make a global impact. Under-age, under-dressed, rebellious and over-the-top, their story is now a movie (in case you get impatient with the first link,
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No matter how fantastic your service or product offering, if it doesn’t resonate with the locals it may as well not exist. Here are ten tips to take your e-commerce brand to international success.
1. Strategy and planning
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Norma Ratcliffe (pictured) is the first female winemaker to become commercially successful in South Africa. She is from Edmonton and seen as one of the pioneers of contemporary South African winemaking, an industry that has boomed globally in the post-apartheid years.
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Makeup your Christmas wish list here and then send it to your friends the world over.
Fashion houses are often named after their founding designer, but Josiane Pividal went about it differently. In 1983 Josiane and her husband Joseph,
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What a powerful, practical learning lesson: “Three Dumb Things Foreign Companies Do In China.”
1. Failing to localize your advertising.
2. Trying to be trendy.
3. Not making things big.
Chinese like things big.
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As noted in The New York Times, Freakonomics Blog on Tuesday, September 8, 2009:
The Entrepreneur
Wade (Magatte Wade, a Senegalese entrepreneur and founder of beverage company Adina for Life), meanwhile,
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