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[Review] An Innocent Story

YoungUpstarts

Embodying the informal, casual wit of the company, the founding of Innocent is summarized on their website in the form of a charming story as follows: “We started innocent in 1999 after selling our smoothies at a music festival. ” Source of image.

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Wi-Fi Alliance Moves Up and Out

Austin Startup

How does a globally-influential trade organization that counts 400 companies in its roster and is charged with driving the evolution of an entire industry get its start? Sometimes with the help of start-up incubators, like the University of Texas’ Austin Technology Incubator (ATI). That number is predicted to surpass 2 billion by 2015.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. To give you a sense, for 2002 the entire US online ad market was $6B and had shrunk year over year (it was $25B+ for 2010). This is my 2nd time trying this, first time was in 1999.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: New Assessment Tool For Entrepreneurs

ReadWriteStart

Acelerar Technologies Daniel expects SharePoint's cloud based solution provider eco-system to develop over the next few years. Anupam Rajey from Lucknow, India, presented Acelerar Technologies , an outsourced accounting services BPO project from India. I asked him to review the TrueCFO project in my Vision India 2020 book.

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Entrepreneurship in the Fast Lane

Growthink Blog

Pursue Global Markets 2. Pursue Global Markets. If you don’t have a business that can scale globally, then either don’t bother or just content yourself with staying small. Try these statistics on for size, from 1999 to today Asia’s share of the world’s Initial Public Offerings grew from 12% to 66%. In the U.S.

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New Book by Professor Mannie Manhong Liu and Pascal Levensohn– Venture Capital: Theory and Practice, published by the University of International Business and Economics Press, Beijing

Pascal's View

B, becoming number two globally, next to the US; the US venture capital investment was $25.6B In October 2010, our new textbook will become available. My contributions to this undergraduate textbook, Venture Capital: Theory & Practice , are the result of two important collaborations. that year, accounting for 67.9%

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

I have been close to the tech & startup sectors for more than 20 years and I can’t think of a period in which I felt more optimistic about the innovation and value creation I see in front of us. So of course returns from 2000-2010 were subpar on average for the industry. Today’s Normalization. There are 20x more consumers online.