The secret of the most successful small businesses

Interesting blog by Agility CEO Tarek Sultan Al Essa, currently at Davos, on SMEs. He points out that the WTO admits that – despite accounting for 95% of all companies – SMEs are largely ignored, little studied and have been consistently ignored by regulators drawing up international trade rules. As a result, cross-border trade is harder, and thus more expensive, for SMEs than it is for larger companies. But, as this blog notes, technology is the leveller that will enable ...