Today in Global Small Business: Black Lives Matter

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What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners:

• Think white privilege doesn't exist?  Wakeup.  Basic analysis here (from 2001). 
• The official #BlackLivesMatter Global Network builds power to bring justice, healing, and freedom to Black people across the globe.
• Quote of the week:  “Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Peaceful protests and demonstrations about the death of George Floyd go global.
• The enormous scale of this important movement.
• Are Americans letting their guard down to protest the killing of George Floyd by police?

Today in Global Small Business: From a Vespa to Global

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What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners:

• They may be from various parts of the world but they have one thing in common:  Southern Illinois in their going global segment.
• Pakistan currently has the largest population of young people ever recorded in its history.  Now, social entrepreneurs are given seed money by international donors, large corporations and rich philanthropists to come up with ideas that can make an impact in the world.
• For the three founders of impACT, a platform promoting a global movement towards social impact through entrepreneurship, “anyone with an entrepreneurial spirit should have access to networks, resources and knowledge in order to create a social impact for communities." We agree.
• Small clothiers buck global trend.
• How Pana Chocolate went from a Vespa to global.
• Listen to Julie Smolyansky, President and CEO, Lifeway Foods, who will talk about "Follow Your Gut" at wegg's™ September 12th event in Chicago. To learn more and to register, visit: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/weggtm-workshop-follow-your-gut-presented-by-julie-smolyansky-tickets-48655708534

The Entrepreneurial Explosion of Digital Startups

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The Economist says the "Cambrian Explosion" of digital startups is now happening in the virtual realm.

The Economist published a special report on the entrepreneurial explosion of digital startups, arguing that they are penetrating every aspect of the economy and reshaping entire industries. The author of the report, Ludwig Siegele, online business and finance editor, evaluates the significance of this “digital feeding frenzy including how startups are operated, how they are nurtured in accelerators, how they arefinanced and how they collaborate with others”.

The report also looks at the global movement surfacing from the explosion of these startups.

Learn more here.  To access the special report on tech startups, go here (requires registration).