Opinion

February 21, 2019

Lessons from the Other Valleys

Entrepreneurs and investors in Europe can learn a lot from their counterparts in India and Southeast Asia, argues Anjali Ramachandran.


Amidst an expected Brexit slowdown in the UK and the vagaries of US government policies with Trump at the helm, technology entrepreneurs would do well to look further afield when it comes to investment, and indeed business.

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