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Why India Will Become The SaaS Hotbed Of Tomorrow

YoungUpstarts

Just as Information Technology (IT) services transformed India in the 1990s, Software as a Service (SaaS) will dramatically shift the nation in the 2020s. This is great news for India as all signs point to future domination in the sector. What India and IT services were in 1990, India and SaaS are today in 2019.

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Former Head of Microsoft Israel Dreams of Billion Dollar Israeli Startups

VC Cafe

He worked his way up the corporate ladder; in 1998 he became VP of the Digital TV platform strategy, which did not pan out, and in 1999 he found an opportunity in Microsoft Internet (MSN) international. Among Microsoft’s 20 worldwide R&D centers, there are only three “strategic centers”: in India, China, and Israel.

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What Are The Best Markets For Startups?

YoungUpstarts

India’s economy is lucrative to say the least. The ever-increasing volume of foreign investments in India represents the main monetary source for economic development. The ever-increasing volume of foreign investments in India represents the main monetary source for economic development.

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My story and support for the Founders Visa

K9 Ventures

Towards the end of my OPT (mid 1998) is when the H1-B visa cap issue hit. ” The options were to either go back home to New Delhi, India, or, risk getting myself into an immigration nightmare. In October 1998, I was excited beyond belief when I received an approval notice for an H1-B visa through my own company!

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The Case For & Against Cryptocurrencies (for those tired of all the noise)

Both Sides of the Table

More than 50% of all ships that sailed wouldn’t return so groups of people banded together and formed the Dutch East India Company to share the risks and the rewards of their conquests. Ask yourself this — how did it go when a bunch of Internet companies when public in 1998–1999 with limited revenues or oversight? Regulation will come.

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Datablindness

Startup Lessons Learned

In May of 1998, India detonated several nuclear weapons at a test site near New Delhi. Eric, what you've termed 'datablindness' seems to be a common affliction in fields which experience a sudden rise in the volume of data they have access to.

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What if it’s 1996, not 1999?

Seeing Both Sides

Matrix had a fund in 1998 that yielded an eye-popping 514+% IRR. Thanks to recent decades of strong growth, the combination of China, India and Brazil have GDPs that are 4x the size and impact on the global economy as compared to the 1990s (see chart below).

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