Tag Archives: Exports

How U.S. State Governments Can Help Small and Mid-sized Firms Become Exporters

Posted on January 10, 2015 by Kati Suominen

This is co-authored with Jessica Lee, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and highlights our new report. Out of all the companies in the United States, only 4 percent are exporters. This statistic is surprising given the outsized role that … Continue reading →

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Aid for eTrade – Accelerating the Global eCommerce Revolution

Posted on November 30, 2014 by Kati Suominen

Some days ago I presented at CSIS a new paper, Aid for eTrade – Accelerating the Global eCommerce Revolution, that I wrote as CSIS Adjunct Fellow with the support of eBay. The paper argues that a quiet revolution is taking place … Continue reading →

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New Face of Globalization: Online Shoppers and Sellers

Posted on November 28, 2014 by Kati Suominen

As the world economy digitizes, patterns and players in trade are changing. According to U.S. Census Bureau, the total online transactions in the U.S. grew from $3 trillion in 2006 to $5.4 trillion in 2012, to about a third of … Continue reading →

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Making Middle Market Companies Realize their Export Potential

Posted on November 13, 2014 by Kati Suominen

New blog on TradeUp: A new study points out that the latest data show there are almost 200,000 middle market companies. While most companies are smaller and middle market companies account for only 3 percent of all businesses in the United States, … Continue reading →

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Equity for Exporters

Posted on October 18, 2014 by Kati Suominen

A historic shift is taking place in the world economy: record numbers of small and mid-size companies, microenterprises, and garage entrepreneurs are going global. Before content to sell in the giant U.S. market, now even the smallest American businesses are … Continue reading →

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TradeUp Opens to Accredited Investors – So What’s in It for Investors?

Posted on October 1, 2014 by Kati Suominen

I just published this blog on TradeUp site: http://www.tradeupfund.com/blog/tradeup-whats-in-it-for-investors This week we opened TradeUp to accredited investors – angels, PE funds, VCs, banks, lenders. So what’s in it for investors to get on TradeUp? Here are 7 answers: 1. How … Continue reading →

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How Big Data Streamlines Globalization

Posted on July 18, 2014 by Kati Suominen

At 3:30am one May morning in 2011 in California, Tony Prophet, senior vice president for operations at Hewlett-Packard, was awakened and told that an earthquake and tsunami had struck Japan, a vital supplier of parts and equipment for major industries … Continue reading →

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Why Is ExIm Bank Having Such Hard Time with Reauthorization?

Posted on July 18, 2014 by Kati Suominen

The U.S. Export-Import Bank (ExIm Bank) is in the throes of its toughest experience yet. Congress is heatedly debating whether to reauthorize the ExIm Bank’s charter, and if it doesn’t act by September 30th, the agency will no longer be … Continue reading →

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The Census Bureau has released new data on the profile of U.S. exporters. Business data has its lags, and these latest data are preliminary estimates for 2012. What they reveal is the critical importance of small and mid-size enterprises (SMEs), companies with … Continue reading →

Posted on May 8, 2014 by Kati Suominen | Leave a comment

State of SME Finance in the United States 2014: Year of New Providers

Posted on February 5, 2014 by Kati Suominen

At my consulting firm Nextrade Group, we just put out a new white paper on the state of SME finance in the United States: This matters because SMEs are the backbone of US economy and an important contributor to U.S. … Continue reading →

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