On February 7th, risingSud, Provence-Alpes-Cote-d’Azure and big bang factory announced the launch of Progress USA, an individual program to support innovative companies in their US development. We are proud to announce the five first companies joining the program: IT Companies: BuyCo, a disruptive Shipping Management Platform Usercube, the first comprehensive Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) as a service SoClip!, mobile app …
Category: Tips for Startups
Doing business in the digital age: does location really matter?
In 2002, Maurice, Guillaume and myself co-founded Brixlogic, a software development platform for Web Services. Much like today, it felt like the worst possible timing to start a company, right after the internet bubble had burst. We had designed our platform to handle any kind of server-to-server communication using XML. There was a huge potential market, but we didn’t have …
US Sales Tax 101: as TIRESOME as UNAVOIDABLE
For example, how does sales tax apply to computer software and related services ? US Sales Tax is a complicated topic especially for local subsidiaries of overseas companies starting their business in the US. The Sales Tax is the tax amount defined by the state where the product is shipped to. It is collected by the company selling to the …
How to improve the readiness of your medical technologies for the U.S. market?
Series of blog post written by Mathieu Petitjean, CEO, Mednest and Susan Z. Paquette MBA, MS, Executive Consultant, MedNest Part 1: Why you need to adapt your strategy for the $156 billion US market. Garnering the attention of U.S. policy makers, investors and innovators, the U.S. Medical Device market reached $156 billion in 2017 (40% of the global market!) and …
When should I launch my product in the U.S.?
Timing is probably one of the most complicated parameters for a US expansion, as I stated in my previous article about “Why do startups fail in the US?” If you come too soon, you might burn your cash before finding your product market-fit. If you come too late, competition will be too fierce for you to get a chance to …
Progress USA ! : votre développement sur les US (offre Région Sud / risingSUD)
risingSUD accompagne depuis des années les entreprises de la Région Provence-Alpes-Côte-d’Azur aux États-Unis via des missions exploratoires. Cette année, ils ont décidé de faire appel à big bang factory et son programme individuel Impulse! pour permettre aux entreprises de franchir une étape supplémentaire dans l’accès au marché américain. Impulse ! a pour objectif de faire progresser sur des aspects stratégiques avec une approche …
Uptale presented L’Oreal’s use case during Microsoft’s Retail Innovation Days
How Virtual Reality is accelerating the Onboarding of Retail Associates Uptale is honored to have been selected for Microsoft Retail Innovation Days in New York on January 13 to present its Enterprise Immersive Learning Platform. Microsoft’s goal in organizing this event during NRF2020 is to spark digital transformation in retail. Uptale presented a case study with NYX Professional Makeup, L’Oreal’s …
Why do startups fail in the U.S.? (and how not to…)
According to survey done by CB Insights in February 2018 among 101 startup failures post mortem, the 3 reasons why startups failed in the U.S. were: No Market Need (42% of the answers) Ran out of Cash (29% of the answers) Not the Right Team (23% of the answers) I find this results particularly informative as it destroys several common …
Case Study – PHENIX – Go-To-Market
PHENIX U.S. development plan was key to convince VCs for their serie B fundraising. Phenix worked with Maxence and Sylvia to define an U.S. go-to-market strategy. During this mission, Phenix management gathered significant insights from the fields and were able to finely tune their target market. Go To Market Objective Phenix specializes in food donation and waste recovery, it uses …
Case Study – SILLAB – Go-to-Market
Case study on the gotomarket strategy led by big bang factory for SILLAB.