Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2010

Since my background includes software development, I often get the question about when to build a solution in-house, versus outsourcing it to a local company, near-shore service, or off-shore organization in China, India, or Eastern Europe. Companies in Asia and Eastern Europe can still provide direct cost reductions of up to 75%.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2016

Of course as a non-Korean I can only generalize but when it was my turn I told her my experience of living in Europe and Japan where failure seemed less tolerated than my experience of living in California and working in the tech sector.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

This increased competition reduces the benefits of globalization for American companies and their employees, but the net effect remains largely positive. For example, workers in Europe have fewer incentives than workers in the United States to work hard. If you are a below-average worker, Europe offers better security.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

Again, much red tape even though David grew up in the US (he had since moved to Europe and married a wonderful woman from Romania). My dad’s father fled Jewish oppression in Eastern Europe as a teenager and ended up in South America. That means the established firms created no new net jobs during that period.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 7, 2020

After he was already a rich man with four of the largest corporations in all of Europe, he was hosting his leaders and directors for a few days. At the beginning of the first day’s meeting, one of his lieutenants stood up and started discussing the net profits of each company and how they were faring in that regard. Branson asked.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 22, 2014

In a survey conducted in Europe, 60% of respondents said intentional late payment was the major cause of hikes in DSO. The accounts receivable turnover ratio is your annual net sales divided by your annual accounts receivable. net, Asia’s banks face $1 trillion Basel III capital shortfall, says DBS chief.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2018

The net result is that often I find founders who don’t really know where they stand, what they would need to do in order to get an investment, who has to decide, what is the process to get that decision and what are the next steps in the process. It is perfectly acceptable (and should be required!) to politely ask about the process.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2010

It was recommended to me by my friend, Net Jacobsson , who was trying to do some basic Life Hacking. But Net had told me that he picked up some valuable lessons from the book, so I thought, “WTF? I pushed for Accenture to transfer me to Europe. So I don’t read too many of them. Can’t hurt.&#.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

The reach is very broad, however, with 30 branches worldwide covering over 50 countries in Europe, North America, South America, Africa, Asia and Australasia, and over 60,000 members worldwide. But remember that numbers and locations are not the whole story. The challenge is to find the right angel for your, and for your situation.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2017

Your brains have been rewired to process all this Net-based information. Within 50 years, books created an information explosion across Europe – 10’s of thousands of titles, and 10’s of millions of copies of books. With the printing press, it only took a couple of months to spread Martin Luther’s 95 Theses over much of northern Europe.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 27, 2020

In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Simon Severino, CEO of Strategy Sprints GmbH, where their goal is to coach CEOs and their teams to ensure higher NPS (Net Promoter Score), higher sales conversion and faster execution. Simon also teaches Growth, Strategy, and Innovation at select MBA courses across Europe.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

This is true not only in terms of GAAP net profit (most conservative representation of profit), but also Airbnb’s FCF is well above even its adjusted EBITDA (most liberal representation of profit, sometimes referred to in jest as “profit before the bad stuff”).

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OnlyOnce

JANUARY 2, 2011

And yes, it’s a lot more fun to travel to Europe when a latte costs you $4, not $8. For a startup, sure, you can buy an offshore development team in India for less money than a development team in Silicon Valley, and for a more established company it makes it much cheaper to try and expand to Europe and Asia. This is related to….

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 1, 2013

. “The range of business ideas and the level of expertise we see on our doorstep here in Asia is truly impressive and our metrics show that the startups we accelerate do as well as any of their peers in Europe or the US outside Silicon Valley.” They will be joining a 100 day ideas-to-investment program with 10-12 other teams.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 17, 2020

Subtract your monthly gross burn rate from your monthly revenue to get your net burn rate. and Europe into a long recession? Next, take a look at your actual revenue each month – not forecast, but real revenue coming in each month. If you’re an early stage company, that number may be zero. is in order.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 7, 2018

The success of luxury online fashion retailer Net-A-Porter and its merger with Yoox, as well as the increased visibility of platforms like Farfetch and the like, have proved them wrong. Florine has over 10 years of experience in marketing and luxury across Europe and Asia and is an award-winning digital entrepreneur and author.

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The Equity Kicker

DECEMBER 3, 2014

Also interesting in the FT article is the chart below showing that for most countries migrants are net economic contributors. The current anti-immigrant and anti-Europe rhetoric is both wrong and damaging. Surprisingly, the increase in migration is therefore best understood as a result of population growth rather than globalisation.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

net,info etc), domains you searched previously, “variations you might consider”, premium domains, country/region specific domains, “add 5 more domains and get bulk pricing” popup banner with “get 3″ or “get 5″ additional extentsions for a deal, email plan.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 22, 2009

While it may make sense to offer very slight adjustments for favorable payment terms and one time revenue, net additions to MRR should dominate the sales rep’s thoughts. Europe Consumer. (1). In search of Europe's next tech stars. The reps’ top 3 priorities should be (i) MRR, (ii) MRR, and (iii) MRR. anecdotes.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 28, 2018

There are approximately 170 million potential new customers in Europe alone, and this is one reason why mega-corporations establish headquarters in international locations as well. Sjamsul Nursalim of Indonesia invested in Singapore property development to increase his $830 million net worth.

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The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

That’s arguably captured in the limited brand allegiance point, and Alex goes on later to say that the seven companies he analysed all offer great customer experiences and have high Net Promoter Scores , showing the importance of offering great product.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 28, 2010

The study reveals that, both on average and for all but seven years between 1977 and 2005, existing firms are net job destroyers, losing 1 million jobs net combined per year. Ultimately, we will face an inevitable erosion and shift of wealth– much like we are witnessing today in Europe.’”

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The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 27, 2016

Apple has $160bn of net cash and has paid $153bn to shareholders, for a total of $313bn. US That got me thinking, so I took a look at corporate R&D spend and it turns out that 2014 spend in the US was over $250bn and in Europe it was over $200bn. US private tech funding 2006-2015: $258bn (real).

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Up and Running

JULY 31, 2015

The Greek debt crisis has brought uncertainty not only to Europe, but to American importers as well. Donald Trump’s wealth was called into question after he bragged about his $10 billion net worth. Uncertainty, there and here. Shutdowns, short and long. Last Thursday, the SBA’s flagship 7a loan program hit its cap. What’s in a name?

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BeyondVC

MARCH 25, 2004

.” The company has a blue chip list of customers like Cingular Wireless and Sprint PCS in the United States; Globe Telecom, KDDI Corp, NTT DoCoMo, Optus and Singtel in Asia Pacific; and mmO2 and Orange in Europe. In addition, the company had net income of $1.2mm for FY03.

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The Equity Kicker

JUNE 1, 2015

In clothing and homewares which were respectively 14% and 11% penetrated in 2013 there have been some big businesses built – e.g. Net-a-porter, ASOS, and AO.com, but it very much feels like these markets are still playing out and there is plenty of scope for new opportunity. We are investing heavily in these verticals.

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Growthink Blog

MARCH 25, 2013

Huge and historically unprecedented public sector debt and social safety net obligations in the United States and Europe - layered on an overlapping and inter-connected global banking system cast a pale “macro” of systemic risk over the markets. Yet, the overall spirit and mindset of business is anything but golden.

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 13, 2012

Chris was formerly a VC at Benchmark Europe (now Balderton Capital ) where he got exposure to a large number of startups, worked with a number of fashion companies, and saw first hand what success looks like. Finally, some of the other fun bits and pieces that make us excited about Lyst: Everyone wants to work with them.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 28, 2011

For example, it’s no longer acceptable for fashion from Europe or anywhere to be a season late. Forget the net – launch with mobile. A nice example is net-a-porter. If our brands can’t get the latest stuff to them now , then they know who else can. Just not good enough in a connected world. Now it’s proving, then earning.

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Babbling VC

JANUARY 7, 2011

I decided to make a blog post out of this since my answer over on Quora to a similar question seems to have quite a bit of resonance: "Differences in Entrepreneurial Mindset between the US and Europe". At the same time, businesses in Europe have always been forced to make do with less. We all know what's holding Europe back.

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Andrew Payne

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

That’s because regulators — especially those in Europe, who are in the thick of deciding whether to settle with Google over antitrust — now have the prospect of additional search competition to consider. I think it’s net-good for consumers, as it increases the chances that more of our devices and systems will interoperate.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

It is always so cool to run marketing campaigns in large homogenous markets (like Europe, Asia, or large chunks of the US). All the things that directly tie to the bottom-line of your company, which you can tie to Net Income driven by digital. To rigorously prove value we could all work together to create purer controlled experiments.

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Andrew Payne

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

That’s because regulators — especially those in Europe, who are in the thick of deciding whether to settle with Google over antitrust — now have the prospect of additional search competition to consider. I think it’s net-good for consumers, as it increases the chances that more of our devices and systems will interoperate.

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Andrew Payne

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

That’s because regulators — especially those in Europe, who are in the thick of deciding whether to settle with Google over antitrust — now have the prospect of additional search competition to consider. I think it’s net-good for consumers, as it increases the chances that more of our devices and systems will interoperate.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 13, 2012

Then Gaurav Dahake from IIT KGP pitched BUYHatke , a penny auction site that is considering three primary segments with a consumer-to-consumer e-commerce business model: net-savvy housewives, IT and BPO professionals, and college students with Internet access. Instead, he should turn his talents elsewhere.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 25, 2011

We are doing well in Europe, but the processes for the U.S. Its very charter utterly excludes the notion of fostering development, opting instead for a one-way ratchet that can only lead to longer, more costly development cycles with no improvement in real safety for efficacy.” “Our Our outlook is solely dependent on the FDA.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

When the company wanted to open a new restaurant in Europe, they created a list of keywords that reflected their values (e.g. A photo from the designer collection launch in Japan yielded 148,612 likes, but it also broached the idea of a collaboration with Net-a-Porter : ( Image Source ).

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