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What U.S. E-Commerce Can Learn from Its Global Copycats

Harvard Business Review

We were unable to capitalize on first mover advantage. But first mover advantage is a simplistic tenet of global strategy. Ozon raised $100 million in 2011 from a consortium of investors, including the Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten , to continue to build out infrastructure and expand into new categories.

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Why We Shouldn’t Worry About the Declining Number of Public Companies

Harvard Business Review

Our conclusion is supported by the fact that in each of the first three five-year intervals in the 21st century, 2001−2005, 2005−2010, and 2011−2015, the largest number of net delists, defined as the number of delisting firms minus the number of listing firms, occurred in software, electronics, and computer industry.

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