thebarefootvc

JUNE 15, 2014

In 2011, I wrote about Jugaad, according to Wikipedia “a colloquial Hindi word that can mean an innovative fix or a simple work-around”. Telemedicine: The United States and much of Europe has over 2 doctors/1000 people. That statistic drops to less than 0.1 doctor/1000 people in countries in the developing world.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

AUGUST 24, 2011

The venture capital industry was just starting to bulk up; it raised $4 billion in 1980. Later, Last year, Litan published a fascinating paper contending that the United States could goose GDP by 1 percent annually if every year it minted 30 to 60 companies that eventually reached $1 billion in annual revenue.

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Growthink Blog

JANUARY 12, 2012

But before you think about going the route of Blowfly Beer, you must understand that if you are based in the United States, you can't use this funding method. Note that legislation is currently underway to try to make it legal in the United States (and I will continue to follow the legislation and update you).

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

By 2011, the number of subscribers worldwide had surpassed 5 Billion and cellular communication had become an unprecedented technological revolution.” ( article via @trengriffin ). The number of cars in circulation in the world is just over 1 billion , with 25% of those in the United States.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

Philip Bouchard : You’ve started teaching at Berkeley since 2002, Columbia in 2003 and at Stanford since 2011. It was adopted by the National Science Foundation for commercializing science in the United States. Building an entrepreneurship ecosystem. How can corporations work more closely with universities?

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 6, 2011

6, 2011 we hosted our 64th free One Million by One Million (1M/1M) strategy roundtable for entrepreneurs, and the first for this year. First up today was John Bertoni with Mava Consulting , who is setting up a part-time sales force for companies to use without having to invest the fully loaded cost of a direct sales rep per geography.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

I lovingly call him the curmudgeon of fintech – in this episode we go deep into how he is building a venture capital firm and practice, not just running a fund and how he views the world of fintech investing. One of the ones that really bothers me is how Venture Capitalists try and conflate what they do as being complicated.

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Up and Running

MARCH 1, 2016

Boris Wertz, founding partner of Version One Ventures, believes that if you’ve worked in an industry you’re passionate about for a long time, you may know something about the market that nobody else knows. If You Want Venture Capital, You Need It. In 2011, it accounted for approximately $2.3 See Also: Got “Founder Fit”?

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Pascal's View

OCTOBER 9, 2011

and invited anyone with constructive, practical ideas on how to revitalize IPO’s in the United States to contact me so that I could pass along their ideas to my colleagues at the National Venture Capital Association. venture capitalists. Small Cap IPO? Intuit, EA Sports, and many others.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2010

billion invested during the same three-month period in 2009, according to the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). Overall, venture capital investment fell in the United States last year but rose elsewhere. Tags: entrepreneur startups investors venture capital business. Marty Zwilling.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. Clearly it'd be more accurate to say "sometime in Q1 2011." Competing To Win Deals - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , November 7, 2010 The venture capital business is highly competitive.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Nearly every major Silicon Valley venture-capital firm has now invested in a B Corp ; maybe you will be one of them! Founded by technology entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel in 2011, the Thiel Fellowship is a two-year program for young people [under 22] who want to build new things. Congratulations! Thiel Fellowship.

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Pascal's View

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Also on the docket is Lashou Group, which only reports $16 million in revenue for the first nine months of 2011. And InterMolecular, with $26 million through the first nine months of 2011. And this isn’t just a venture capital problem—this is a major problem for the American entrepreneur—since 1991, 47% of all U.S.

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www.ericsink.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Many venture-capital-funded companies work this way. In the United States (and probably elsewhere as well), there are laws that you need to know before you even start the process of trying to hire someone. There are federal statutes and there may be state and local regulations as well. Know the Law. startupcto

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Waze, which was founded in 2008, has more than 7 million users in the United States, Italy, France, Spain and Israel. Li, who invests in Israeli companies through his investments’ arm Horizons Ventures, earlier invested in Israeli video-editing startup Magisto.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Sponsored Links His start-up Viddy, launched in early 2011, created a smartphone app that allows people to capture, enhance and share video and already has 40 million registered users. Veteran investor Timothy Draper says venture-capital firms are taking notice of Silicon Beach. Hes raised more than $38 million in funding.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In November 2011, David Rosenblatt took over as CEO and has been scaling the company ever since. Poshmark was founded by Manish Chandra in 2011. Julie Wainwright founded The Real Real in 2011. Rover.com (*) in Seattle, which was founded by Greg Gottesman and Aaron Easterly in 2011, is the leading player in this market.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

For example, angel funding is more prevalent in the United States than in Europe. In other words, angel investors and early stage venture capital (VC) firms will have different expectations than late stage VC firms. September 14, 2011 03:43:05 Reply 0 Flag this comment Ay?e e Cagal Follow [link] ÖDÜL KAZANMAK ?SYEN

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Venture capital is still alive and well, at least it was in the third quarter of this year. CB Insights, a venture capital database, just published its Q3 2012 VC Activity Report which gives an industry look at where the funding went between July and September. Top states where investments are made.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Prestigious London-based Monocle magazine, a global briefing journal covering international affairs, business, culture and design, has chosen Haifa as the city with the most promising business potential for 2011. billion in 2010. RUSNANO ESTABLISHES RUSSIAN-ISRAELI NANOTECH FUND. billion while its profits soared to $2 billion from $135.5

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

We did GroupMe for around three years, turned into a company and ended up selling it to Skype for around eighty million dollars and that was in 2011. If you’re looking for five million dollars, you should be thinking institutional capital. Sabrina Parsons: Yeah, that’s a great question. Are we a time tracking company?

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

Between 2008 and 2011, according to the US Census Bureau, 1,026,572 California homes were foreclosed upon, equal to one in thirteen homes and the residences of 1 million children. California alone lost a million jobs. Home prices in San Francisco dropped 30 percent.

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Here are seven bold predictions for 2011: #7. Venture Capital will Rise Again. Venture capitalists invested $4.8 Before the “great deal crisis” of 2008 – 2010, venture capital quarterly funding averages were in the $7.5 Small businesses have been late to the party, but look for that to change in 2011.

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