International Expansion - Erwin Sikma

Today, we are talking about a thing that I think many entrepreneurs dream of one day being ready for: bringing your business across borders, in other words: International Expansion. What better way to learn than from someone that has done this twice, in 2 very different ways. Today we talk to Erwin Sikma, entrepreneur, interim CEO and management consultant. After starting his career at McKinsey where he solved problems for business and governments all across the world, he decided to take his international career a step further. He joined the heavily funded Rocket Internet, where he built four online classifieds businesses in more than 10 countries, mainly in South East Asia. One of these countries became his home: Myanmar. Erwin caught the entrepreneurial bug and started his own Agriculture Tech business: Impact Terra. Once he had found product market fit, it was time for international expansion again: only this time as a founder, and this time, he needed to bootstrap. Today in That One Thing: International Expansion.