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Growing your business into the United States can be an exhilarating opportunity, but it requires a thoroughly planned-out entry strategy. Will you acquire a preexisting local company to take on their presence or, conversely, build up your own operation from the start? This post will go into various indicators and terms that can help guide you toward making a beneficial decision on this front.There are plenty of benefits to acquiring a company here in the US. For one, it gives you a handy boost in strategy, allowing your company to claim instant market share and take advantage of an existing brand presence. It also gives you a ready-made network of distribution channels, which again saves significant time and resources. And finally, there is the matter of customer base; buying a company means buying a built-in customer base.It is tough to figure out which business rules apply in the U.S. and which don't, when there are so many and they change all the time. It's hard to imagine that it's better for startups to try to figure all this out for themselves—without acquiring a company that's already familiar with the rules. When you acquire a company, many of those legal issues are already settled, so it saves you a lot of time. When I worked on acquiring companies, I always felt that was a major part of the deal.How the audience sees a company’s brand is a significant part of the brand. A company's brand recognition can be assessed in many ways, but one of the most common approaches is to promote the use of online surveys. Interviews are also an option. Another part of understanding the brand is to figure out who the audience is. No matter the method, the final product should provide a good idea of how big or small the company's brand is. Indeed, a good place to start is to take the company's name and type it into an online survey.How quickly an existing company can be brought to market, compared to the speed with which a start-up might do so, depends on the specific circumstances. But here are two general observations: Acquiring a going concern is usually faster and more predictable than either building a team in-house or hiring start-up executives from scratch.Rephrased: The long-term growth potential of building your own office is paramount. It allows you to have full control and better direct your path to growth and create the kind of brand identity that you want. There are other indexes to consider as well. One is the "synergy" that the acquisition might create with your existing setup: with it, you could potentially access new technologies, resources, or customer bases. And consider, too, the matter of cost savings and the potential for an increased revenue payoff. "Exit strategy" might sound like a strange thing to consider when you're just trying to figure out if you *should* buy, but long-term plans can offer a crucial framework for making this decision.In the end, the most effective pathway really relies on your particular intentions and assets. If you intend to effect an entry into the US market, you need to first do some solid market research. Of course, you must also investigate any potential American businesses that you might acquire. That's due diligence. Speaking of expertise, the experts say you should also seek the advice of professionals who have been through this before. And what exactly are the factors that one should consider for an international expansion into the US?

Acuquire a Local Company or Start an Office to Enter US Market

When it comes to scientific research and development, it is absolutely crucial to conduct experiments with the utmost efficiency and accuracy. As we dive even deeper into the era of digital technology and data science, the automation of these experimental workflows becomes both a necessity and an opportunity. Experiment Process Automation (EPA) provides an exciting framework for doing just that. By automating not only the manual aspects but also—whenever possible—the laborious, repetitive algorithms for data analysis, we furnish our enterprises with increased cycle times, better reproducibility, and ultimately, higher quality science.The artificial intelligence and machine learning fields are transforming the way scientists automate experiments. Intelligence systems being developed now can learn from data, make predictions, and optimize the conditions of an experiment. Analyzing big data enables artificial intelligence algorithms to predict outcomes of potential experiments, greatly reducing the need for the traditional approach of trying many things until hitting on one that works. Plus, staying adaptive, artificial intelligence can adjust experiment protocols in real time for efficiency and effectiveness.Laboratory operations are being transformed by Robotic Process Automation. RPA is an emerging technology that is being rapidly adopted in many industries and now in laboratories to automate repetitive, error-prone, and time-consuming tasks. RPA can handle many different aspects of the experimental process, from sample preparation to data collection and analysis. Indeed, the RPA software being employed in laboratories to automate pipetting and other precision-based tasks certainly seems well-suited, given the requirement for LIMS to be integrated with those activities.IoT devices are getting integrated into labs at an increasing rate. These devices are changing laboratories into much smarter spaces. During my recent temp job at a big electron microscope "foundry" lab, but also in my big-data-for-biology office hours, I got to experience the integration of the internet into current laboratory practices. We can now know and achieve so much more! But there's still way too much room for improvement in how we integrate the internet into the current office-hours laboratory experience.The way that experimental data is stored, processed, and analyzed is undergoing a fundamental change with the advent of cloud computing and advanced data analytics. During an era when the "architecture" of the drug molecule still dominates "good science," where one or two chemists in an academic lab solve structure and define the target–chemistry interface, the need for efficient use of chemical data and the increasing pace of drug discovery demand a totally different approach in order to see the interactions between drug candidates and the target. Platform pressure is driving the adoption of an entirely new informatics system that also completely changes how chemists interact with the data landscape.Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) are being used in ever-more creative ways to streamline the research process and amp up its productivity. Both VR and AR offer big boosts to scientific research in situations where the right kind of technology can make a huge difference—especially when it comes to the precarious act of "doing science." Innovative applications employing these technologies offer ways to cut time and cost from the various parts of the scientific process, and to do so in part simply by getting the right bits of information to the right people in the right way.The trustworthiness and the path an experimental datum follows are of utmost importance. "Ensuring the integrity and traceability of experimental data are essential.," Eberhart writes. We might take it for granted that the results of an experiment can be trusted, but (thankfully) researchers are also human and can make mistakes and, rarely, can also be motivated to fudge the data. Collaboration among a diverse range of parties can also introduce opportunities for misconduct.The scientific study and development process is changing dramatically through the advent of new technologies, most notably automated experimentation, that are rapidly and fundamentally altering the way scientists work. Researchers are now using an array of technologies to increase both the scale and the quality of their work. And they’re couple those tools and techniques with outsized expectations of the kinds of science they can do. The clearest way to see this is in the use of artificial intelligence to automate laboratory work. AI has the potential to transform what has been a largely "artisanal" enterprise whereby scientists plan their own experiments and then, for the most part, carry them out by hand. AI is already leading to major changes in the way laboratories work and what kinds of science they can do.

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The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence is completely changing the field of cybersecurity, and it's happening right now. That's not an exaggeration. This is really happening, and it's challenging us to protect things in new ways. We're going to look at some of the key things that make the AI age different when it comes to security, including what happens when AIs have objectives that may not be aligned with our own and the many doors that we've already left open to AI by using it to build so many of the systems on which we already rely for security.AI-fueled danger: Cyber crooks employ AI to mount much more skilled attacks. They design AI algorithms to do such things as generate very believable come-ons in phishing emails (a technique already in use), create morphable images that can fool biometric vetting, guess a person’s passwords, conduct automated SQL attacks on web apps, and much more—all at efficiencies that outpace human operators.The defensive applications of AI have also become indispensable in fighting cyber crime. By detecting and analyzing the unusual patterns that indicate a hack, AI can help us respond much faster than we could with human resources alone. Indeed, we'll probably never be able to respond effectively to the number and speed of the breaches without the assistance of AI.Concerns about privacy are rising in the AI era. Why? AI systems often require data and lots of it. So would AI be safer if it worked on a government server? That's what a joint report published last week by Stanford University's Center for Internet and Society warned against. And could an AI system be used to take reams of observation from human viewers and, based on them, identify you by your gait, the pattern of your heartbeats, or the rhythms of your typing on a keyboard? Stanford says yes.The ever-widening scope for artificial intelligence keeps throwing up a host of ethical questions which require immediate attention. Ensuring the rightness or wrongness of decisions an AI-powered security system makes, for instance, is an area where much debate is happening and will continue to happen. There is a genuine concern as to how to make these systems more explainable and accountable. After all, the systems being developed today are likely to be very powerful indeed. So much so that they could probably make decisions of the kind for which we really do look to a human being--decisions over life and death situations, for example.The artificial intelligence as the human factor: as the extent of AI's appearance in security programs has grown, so has the appearance of AI in the discussion of what it means to be a human. Even seemingly simple security "bots" that rove through networks, looking for signs of suspicious activity, have something approaching consciousness: they consider what constitutes a threat, just as a security analyst would, and they're becoming more adept at doing so all the time. Yet they lack something that neuroscientists clearly identify as a distinctive human attribute: moral judgment.As we move through this uncharted territory, it is becoming apparent that AI will dominate the battle of the cyber realm. That means that both offensive and defensive moves will be made by AI. People and organizations must be aware and base their strategies on this artificial world; otherwise, we will not be able to keep up—much less thrive—in an era where AI is king.

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