Leading Entrepreneurship

In her book 50 Facts That Should Change The World (2.0), Jessica Williams also provided us some keen exporting opportunities… if you were listening very closely.

In my posting on Small Business Exports, we discussed the benefits of exporting. The big question is: What trends do I follow?

Let’s take a look at a couple of Jessica’s to see if they might help you:

• A third of the world’s obese people live in the developing world.
• If you stand at the junction of Oxford Street and Regent Street in central London, there are 161 branches of Starbucks within a five-mile radius.
• China has 44 million missing women.
• Brazil has more Avon ladies than members of its armed services.
• Landmines kill or maim at least one person every hour.
• People in industrialized countries eat between fourteen and fifteen pounds of food additives every year.
• One million people become new mobile phone subscribers every day. Some 85 percent of them live in emerging markets.
• Cars kill two people every minute.
• One third of the world’s population is at war.
• Eighty-two percent of the world’s smokers live in developing countries.

Any other trends you can think of?