Internationalization

10 Trends That Will Shape Our Global Small Business World In 2010

  1. Globally integrated future - better known as cheap, quick and global.
  2. World power.
  3. Technologically enabled future.
  4. China Ltd.
  5. Thick as a BRIC.
  6. The Young and the Restless: The Radical Global Entrepreneur.
  7. Come-out-of-nowhere theory.
  8. The Age of Online Factory Direct (OFD).
  9. Global Small Business Heroes.
  10. Borderless venture capital (BVC).

6 Ecommerce Trends For 2010

  1. M-commerce
  2. Social commerce
  3. Vertical expertise
  4. Internationalisation
  5. Personalisation
  6. Expansion of retail sector e-commerce best practice into more vertical markets

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Result & partners buy Spray, Spraymail, Spraydate, and Passagen

Result and four individual Result partners have acquired 100% of the shares in Spray.se (former Lycos), one of Europe´s pioneer brands on the web - with a portal business, a leading site in the fun and flirt segment with 800,000 members and Sweden’s largest independent mail service with close to 400,000 users. The same conglomerate also acquired another of the true Swedish household brands, Passagen.se, the largest blog portal and forum, with 830,000 unique weekly vistors. The sellers were media house Allers and directory guide publisher Eniro. 

1.2 B people on the web

We at Result have always thought that once you have chiseled out an internet business model that works locally, it's almost a sin not to expand it into other markets. Given today's internet penetration and  users' behavior that's more true than ever.

Press release: Result and Listérus & Partners merge

Internationalisation experts Result (headquartered in Sweden) and Listérus & Partners (Germany) merge their businesses for continuous expansion in 2009.