by Ekrem Duman | Sep 15, 2026 | Book Taste, Startup
Home>Book Taste>Zero to One Taste Note – Amazon Entrepreneurship Best SellersZero to One: Why Copying Competitors Is the Losing StrategyA Kurums Book Taste review of Zero to One for founders deciding what to build – and for operators wondering why...
by Ekrem Duman | Sep 13, 2026 | Book Taste, Startup
Home>Book Taste>The Lean Startup Yummy Pick – Amazon Startup Best SellersThe Lean Startup: Validated Learning Before Runway Runs OutA startup-focused Taste Note on validated learning, small experiments, actionable metrics, and deciding when to persevere or...
by Ekrem Duman | Sep 13, 2026 | Startup, Vietnam Company Stories, Vietnam FDI, Trade & Global Expansion
⚡ TL;DRVietnam has absorbed on the order of $500 billion in registered foreign investment since 1988 and sent out barely a twentieth of that. The companies that did go abroad form a short and revealing list: Viettel, the army-owned telecom that built networks in ten...
by Ekrem Duman | Sep 13, 2026 | Startup, Vietnam Company Stories, Vietnam FDI, Trade & Global Expansion
⚡ TL;DRRoughly a third of the value of Vietnam’s exports to the United States is estimated to originate in China, arriving as components, fabric, kits and sub-assemblies that Vietnamese factories turn into finished goods. Washington calls the worst of this...
by Ekrem Duman | Sep 13, 2026 | Startup, Vietnam Company Stories, Vietnam FDI, Trade & Global Expansion
⚡ TL;DRVietnam has signed sixteen free trade agreements in three decades, more than any economy of comparable size, and the two that changed its exports most are the CPTPP, in force from January 2019, and the EVFTA with the European Union, in force from August 2020....
by Ekrem Duman | Sep 13, 2026 | Startup, Vietnam Company Stories, Vietnam FDI, Trade & Global Expansion
⚡ TL;DROn 2 April 2025 the United States announced a 46 percent “reciprocal” tariff on Vietnam, the highest rate imposed on any major trading partner and a direct threat to an economy that sends close to 30 percent of its exports to America. Hanoi...
