Haystack

JUNE 29, 2018

Whether it’s angling for multi-billion dollar franchises in faraway places like India, or competing for a small startup in Boston — the gloves are off and founders in the right position stand to benefit. While I don’t know TJ well, I am super happy for him, his cofounders, colleagues, and folks in the PillPack orbit.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

In India, two female journalists launched a mobile app to allow women to report harrassment and abuse, an issue in their hometown of Delhi and throughout the world. Kiva pioneered the concept, allowing individuals to lend or donate small amounts online (as little as $25) to entrepreneurs around the world.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 28, 2016

Entrepreneurs see opportunity where others see obstacles and why hubris is an entrepreneur’s worst enemy, were two topics of discussion on my SiriusXM radio show, Entrepreneurs are Everywhere. Ajay Kshatriya , co-founder and CEO of Biota Technology , which applies DNA sequencing technology to the energy industry.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 28, 2016

Entrepreneurs see opportunity where others see obstacles and why hubris is an entrepreneur’s worst enemy, were two topics of discussion on my SiriusXM radio show, Entrepreneurs are Everywhere. Ajay Kshatriya , co-founder and CEO of Biota Technology , which applies DNA sequencing technology to the energy industry.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders?

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

from a trip to India and spoke of places with pigs and cows roaming around and no plumbing. But I did write a letter to Indira Gandhi, then prime minister of India, in 1982 before my first trip there. And how much of it was based on luck, and how I could easily have been that child in an orphanage in India.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 6, 2016

by Amit Damani , cofounder of Vista Rooms. Currently in its 7th season, the show features a panel of potential venture capital investors, called “sharks”, that considers offers from aspiring entrepreneurs seeking investments for their business or products. We bring you a lowdown of lessons from Shark Tank: 1.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Guest Post by Misti Yang, Writer for Lean Startup Co. To confidently answer no, co-founder of Strategyzer Alex Osterwalder told our attendees, “What you really want to do is work more like Amazon. … For example, if a chief executive officer manages the daily operation, a chief entrepreneur heads up innovation efforts.

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Genuine VC

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Estonia & India) and even other cities here domestically (e.g. Fairly often I hear entrepreneurs pitch that their startup doesn’t have a headquarters – everyone works remotely and it works. Here at NextView, we typically invest in companies headquartered along the U.S.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

OrangeScape positions itself as an Application Platform As A Service (APaaS) provider, and has some marquee customers in India including Unilever, Citibank, Pfizer, AstraZeneca, and Sterlite. I have long been a champion of Indian product companies, urging the entrepreneurs to think beyond labor arbitrage and outsourcing. Photo by ilco.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Perhaps most famously, Guy Kawasaki quipped that the value of an MBA to an entrepreneur is “probably about a negative $250,000.”. Though, this article is not a reflection on the fundamentals of unicorns—rather, I am using them as a proxy for situations in which founders have executed on big ideas. Red Ventures (HBS, Wharton).

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 8, 2015

Eating my own dogfood - I was obsessed with startups and venture capital… and I talked to a lot of people and picked up nuggets along the process. For me, VC Cafe is one of those things and being included in the Top 50 blogs in Venture Capital (#4!) ” the post was also picked up by Venturebeat.

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Genuine VC

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Estonia & India) and even other cities here domestically (e.g. Fairly often I hear entrepreneurs pitch that their startup doesn’t have a headquarters – everyone works remotely and it works. Here at NextView, we typically invest in companies headquartered along the U.S.

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thebarefootvc

MARCH 8, 2012

While the seed capital gap has closed, there are still only a handful of venture capital firms here in NYC investing in the crucial Series A/B rounds. In contrast, many Silicon Valley funds are large with much capital to put to work (which is why we are seeing them lead NYC deals at these stages).

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Bryce Dot VC

DECEMBER 12, 2012

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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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 10, 2017

The Institute includes a co-working space and accelerator (the Blackstone LaunchPad at UT Dallas), an incubator, a training group, a seed fund, and much more — all working together under the unifying, umbrella theme of entrepreneurship. In the early days of the current internet age, the center of Dallas venture capital was the Galleria area.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2009

This is a story of one of the risks of venture capital. But some companies have entrepreneurs that seem talented on paper, are in a space that seems interesting to investors and are able to raise venture capital early in the company’s existence. True story.) Fast forward 5 years to my second company.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

SIGNIFICANCE PROMINENT. --> The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail. An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. The National Venture Capital Association estimates that 25% to 30% of venture-backed businesses fail.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Over the past two years, one of the most influential venture-capital firms has turned the usual rules of start-up investing on its head. Over the past two years, one of the most influential venture-capital firms has turned the usual rules of start-up investing on its head. Welcome, Logout. Customer Center. My Journal.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

It is the first in a series of posts he’s writing about the decisions a young entrepreneur needs to make when she/he is first starting a business. The timing is perfect, there is more than a little overlap with Vivek Wadhwa’s guest post on venture capital earlier today. and Google. Johnny Good post.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

By definition, the capital investment needs to be relatively low such that the investors and the entrepreneurs all make a healthy return on investment. Bokér/1 Next David Sarna with Hendon, Stamford Hill & Co. I started doing my free Online Strategy Roundtables for entrepreneurs in the fall of 2008.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

By definition, the capital investment needs to be relatively low such that the investors and the entrepreneurs all make a healthy return on investment. Bokér/1 Next David Sarna with Hendon, Stamford Hill & Co. I started doing my free Online Strategy Roundtables for entrepreneurs in the fall of 2008.

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Marketing Bootstrapping Incubator Angel Investor 52

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

We love a good entrepreneurial success story – entrepreneur as protagonist overcomes obstacles and builds a thriving, successful company (and become wealthy while doing so). When a co-founder walks out of a company — as was the case for me — you’ve already been dealt a heavy blow. It’s free. Get started here.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Among Microsoft’s 20 worldwide R&D centers, there are only three “strategic centers”: in India, China, and Israel. Venture capital, the money that is invested into startup companies, is shrinking. At the beginning of the year 2000, there were 133 venture capital firms in Israel, today there are less than 30.

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

There are some obvious structural reasons why a shakeout in the venture capital industry takes a long time. This was also the period when VC started expanding seriously in emerging markets like India and China, and many LPs put new capital into these OUS funds.

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David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

According to a report by the National Venture Capital Association, 1/3 of all venture-backed publicly traded companies between 2006 and 2012 had at least one foreign-born entrepreneur. More than 40% of the Fortune 500 companies were founded by an immigrant or the child of an immigrant. Determined Founders.

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David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

According to a report by the National Venture Capital Association, 1/3 of all venture-backed publicly traded companies between 2006 and 2012 had at least one foreign-born entrepreneur. More than 40% of the Fortune 500 companies were founded by an immigrant or the child of an immigrant. Determined Founders.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2009

But entrepreneurs can be great spouses and parents. Biological Clocks After Convergent and now single again, I was a co-founder of my next two startups; MIPS and Ardent. When the kids got older our adventures took us to Mexico, Ecuador , India, Africa and Europe. Our circumstances were unique and your mileage will vary.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

This post was co-authored with Omri Stern and originally appeared in Harvard Business Review. We also interviewed over two dozen Israeli entrepreneurs and the investors from these companies — the leading thinkers in the region — to determine the playbook that these startups are executing in order to scale. We think so.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

New York venture capitalists like HOF Capital recognize this trend, and more and more of us are opening our doors to invest in startups with international roots. I see four main reasons for this: Less capital intensive (and consequently lower valuations). Founders’ determination. They burnt their ships behind them.

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David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

(co-written with Stephane Nasser , co-founder of OpenVC , an open-source initiative to collect and analyze all VC theses.). OpenVC is a new, open-source initiative to collect and analyze all publicly available VC theses, to help founders more efficiently find the right investors, and vice-versa. of venture capital deals.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

Co-founder and CEO Nicolas Brusson spoke to me about BlaBlaCar’s early ambitions to be a European rather than local country winner and its progression to global player. But the Valley in 1999 was a new world of startups, venture capital, and stock options. How did you go from VC to founder?

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

the wave of semiconductor startups in the 1960’s/70’s, the emergence of Venture Capital as a professional industry, the personal computer revolution in 1980’s, the rise of the Internet in the 1990’s and finally. The founders were simply wrong about their assumptions about customer needs. Founders Need to Run the Company Longer.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 10, 2017

We asked some entrepreneurs and business owners, why they started their businesses: #1 – Personal Quest. After seeing the negative effects of dehydration, both me and my co-founder, Ming, decided that we want to spread knowledge about hydration and create a product that could help with this problem.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). A group of Seedcamp entrepreneurs started a startup tools wiki for that purpose, and we thought it would be well suited here. National Venture Capital Association â?? Founders Institute Plain Preferred Term Sheet â?? Venture Hacks Angel List â??

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