{"id":849,"date":"2014-07-31T17:53:20","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T09:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.www.innovationiseverywhere.com\/?p=849"},"modified":"2014-07-31T17:53:20","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T09:53:20","slug":"startup-books-2-brilliant-crazy-cocky-sarah-lacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/innovationiseverywhere.com\/fr\/startup-books-2-brilliant-crazy-cocky-sarah-lacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Startup books #2: Brilliant, Crazy, Cocky, by Sarah Lacy"},"content":{"rendered":"

As we prepare our second year of travels to explore the startup ecosystems of the emerging markets, it’s the perfect timing to learn from previous explorers. \u00ab\u00a0Brilliant, Crazy, Cocky – How the top 1% of Entrepreneurs profit from Global Chaos\u00a0\u00bb<\/em><\/strong> (Amazon<\/a>), is one of these post-exploration book which tries to wrap-up in 200-250 pages the whole experience of meeting emerging scenes.<\/p>\n

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The author, Sarah Lacy<\/a>,<\/strong> has founded and is still running US tech blog Pando Daily<\/strong>, and she was previously writing for Techcrunch and Business Week. She spent 40 weeks on the road in Brazil, Israel, China, India, Indonesia and Rwanda<\/strong>, where she met entrepreneurs and startupers alike, as well as decision makers, government officials and local tycoons. The book also starts with a convincing reflection on where the US stands in the fast-moving environment.<\/p>\n

Silicon Valley vs. Rest of the world: is America losing it?<\/h2>\n

Sarah starts, and ends, with the place the US should have as emerging entrepreneurial and tech ecosystems are growing around the world<\/strong>. \u00ab\u00a0The West has two choices\u00a0\u00bb<\/em>, she says, \u00ab\u00a0partner with them of get shoved out of the way\u00a0\u00bb<\/em>. We are completely in line with this vision, even though it will take time to become a reality in some parts of the world. Being based in Singapore and having visited about 8 countries this year, we can only acknowledge this absence of the US tech giants<\/strong> which make most of the western media actuality.<\/p>\n

BRICS<\/strong> countries are already accounting for some 15% of the global economy and 3bn of its population<\/strong>, and, led by China in the short run, it’s going to grow faster than the Western world. As we saw during our review of Picooc, a Chinese smart body scale, China alone already records 25% of the machine to machine connections<\/a><\/strong>, also known as the internet of things. During our trip to Kenya<\/strong>, we also saw how widespread was the use of Mpesa, with 31% of the country’s GDP already transiting via\u00a0this mobile money<\/a>,<\/strong> especially among the unbanked. Back in France or in Singapore, it’s still a pain to pay anything without a credit card or a Paypal account.<\/p>\n

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And, beyond the fact that the developing countries are now awake and moving fast, Sarah Lacy adds that the culture of risk in the US is in a bad shape<\/strong>. \u00ab\u00a0Over the 100 years after the firsy immigrants passed through Ellis Island, the concept of entrepreneurship in America would change pretty dramatically\u00a0\u00bb<\/em>, she says. Two ideas shows how America might be losing it:<\/strong><\/p>\n