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The Start-up Scene In India

YoungUpstarts

Vijay Anand is an entrepreneurially-minded professional with more than 13 years of hands-on experience as an entrepreneur , an advisor, and a columnist at Entrepreneur magazine. We communicated with Anand who kindly shared with us his thoughts on the start-up scene in India. I came back to India , in 2004.

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[Interview] Christopher Kape, Vancouver Executive, President of JAMCO Capital Partners

YoungUpstarts

Vancouver executive Christopher Kape is an entrepreneur and venture capitalist who founded JAMCO Capital Partners , an early-stage investment and strategic advisory firm that focuses on a number of industries, including gaming, high-tech, food and wellness. Why do you think philanthropic work is important as an entrepreneur?

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[Singapore] Shopify Partners SingTel To Grow Presence In Singapore

YoungUpstarts

The e-commerce space in Singapore has been ratcheted up by another notch as online shopping platform Shopify partners telecommunications provider SingTel to make available its services to businesses in the country. Shopify itself was started as an online shop in 2004 selling snowboard equipment out of a garage by its founders.

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Congratulations to Upwork

A Crowded Space

I remember when I made that first flight out to San Francisco from Boston to meet the team in 2004, the company was down to its last $20K in the bank. Very shortly after I joined, Greg Gretsch (now my partner at Jackson Square Ventures) co-led oDesk’s Series A along with Venky Ganesan (partner at Menlo Ventures and lead investor in Rev.com).

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Sessions @ The Leonardo with Vinod Khosla

Bryce Dot VC

So, I’ve decided to break one of Brad’s golden rules of startup communities and start a new series for local founders and entrepreneurs I’m calling Sessions @ The Leonardo. . My hope with Sessions is to create an event I wished were around when I was just getting started as a career-long entrepreneur.

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Facebook S-1: The Most Anticipated IPO in a Decade ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

My partner Rob also wondered if Facebook is the next Yahoo! , Founded : Spring 2004, incorporated July 2004. But places like Brazil and India are estimated at 20-30% and Japan and South Korea at <15%. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. or the next Google. Facebook, Inc. Read More ».

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FuturePerfect Ventures: A 2015 Recap

thebarefootvc

Like any motivated entrepreneur, I started a company (in this case, an investment platform), to fill the gaps – which I also believed FPV was uniquely capable of filling. I am thankful to all of FPV’s early LPs, advisors and entrepreneurs who are an indispensable part of FPV’s mission and success to date. Below is a recap.