Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2011

Since my background includes software development, I often get the question about when to build a solution in-house, versus outsourcing it to a local company, near-shore service, or off-shore organization in China, India, or Eastern Europe. Companies in Asia and Eastern Europe can still provide direct cost reductions of up to 75%.

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David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

Managers of VC funds typically want to grow their business aggressively, just like the founders we back. I’ve listed them below in *very* roughly descending order of efficiency, measured by increased dollars one can put to work, divided by the operational dollars required to implement each strategy. .

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Austin Startup

MAY 24, 2021

these solutions can be paired with the cultural adoption of process and operational excellence at companies looking to improve the way their business performs. The round was led by Insight Partners, with participation from Highland Europe. It is hard to find narrowly defined or walled-garden applications that do this effectively.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

You start traveling around Europe, starting working for them overseas. Or did I want to move to Europe? I only went because I wanted to live and work in Europe. DEREK 8:33] So you’re working in Europe. 00:12:57] DEREK: This was in Europe? I don’t know, I was just always dicking around with computers.

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techcrunch.com

MARCH 8, 2012

The Trouble With Non-tech Cofounders. This is a guest post by Scott Allison, CEO and founder of Teamly.com. This is a guest post by Scott Allison, CEO and founder of Teamly.com. The problem with non-technical founders is that they don’t know what they don’t know, until they’re in way too deep. Enterprise. CrunchBase.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2016

Outsourcing is defined as contracting the work to another company, usually located in a developing country, like India, China, or Eastern Europe. Focus on operational processes, rather than innovative new ones. The same applies to manufacturing and almost any process these days.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 22, 2023

However, despite the hype surrounding the concept, Europe still faces significant challenges if it wants to establish a strong presence in the Metaverse. This article will explore the current state of the Metaverse in Europe and examine the obstacles it needs to overcome to achieve its potential.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2010

Since my background includes software development, I often get the question about when to build a solution in-house, versus outsourcing it to a local company, near-shore service, or off-shore organization in China, India, or Eastern Europe. Companies in Asia and Eastern Europe can still provide direct cost reductions of up to 75%.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

I’ve been meaning to write this post since September of last year when Brad Feld first wrote about the The Founders Visa Movement. TWTFelipe is the founder of TWTApps , who had developed some really cool add-on applications for Twitter to extend its functionality. university in math or science&# (Thomas Friedman).

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David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2013

In addition, as part of the program, I’ll be making my first public presentation of our research study on VC portfolio operations value creation. Monday, January 14 th : The Lower-Risk Startup: How VCs Increase the Odds of Investment Success with Operational Support – 5 PM, NYU Wagner at 295 Lafayette Street (Puck Building ).

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Dries Buytaert is the co-founder and CTO and Acquia , a venture-backed software company that offers products and services for open source content management system Drupal. While entrepreneurship and startups have spread tremendously in Europe, a lot of aspiring young entrepreneurs leave Europe for the United States.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 26, 2013

Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Christian Reber, CEO and co-founder of Berlin-based 6Wunderkinder. It’s part three of a series, cross-posted from his own blog , in which he draws on his experience to offer advice for aspiring entrepreneurs in Europe and beyond. 60-70% for founders. 10-20% for employees.

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techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

Co-founder Naval Ravikant explains that 18 pilot companies in the program, including Transcriptic, Double Robotics and Tred, received $6.7 Investors included Founders Fund, 500 Startups and Marc Cuban. European M-Payments Startup SumUp Partners With Revel Systems, An iPad POS Provider, For Its Push Into Europe.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 16, 2013

We grab Epirot Ludvik Nekaj (pictured above), the founder And CEO Of Crowdsourcing Week , for a quick chat on where crowdsourcing is headed in the coming years for this part of the world. In Asia and Singapore, we cannot just copy existing crowdsourcing or crowdfunding platforms from the US and Europe.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 7, 2018

by Florine Eppe Beauloye, Co-Founder and CEO of mOOnshot digital. Brands such as Montblanc and Burberry are operating at the forefront of the industry’s digital transformation by embracing big data to grow. Florine Eppe Beauloye is the Co-Founder and CEO of mOOnshot digital , a marketing agency for lifestyle and luxury brands.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Flugauto Co-Founders (left to right): Frank Noppel , CEO, Gerrit Becker , CCO, and Alexander Xydas , COO. They have an end-to-end solution, from operating and monitoring the fleet of UAVs to the on-the-ground operations and delivering to the final destination. What the Flugauto system looks like.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2020

In January of this year, he arrived in the US with his co-founders as part of the winter 2020 YCombinator batch. As Alpha explained, it's "not in any way tied to PostEra's commercial operations. Alpha Lee : I'm Alpha Lee, a co-founder of PostEra. It's solely used to make and test compounds against COVID."

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 31, 2018

Presenting in the Entertainment and Content Technology category at 3:30 pm on Sunday, March 11, Sceenic will talk about its Watch Together SaaS solution, which enables media companies to create interactive co-viewing experiences for dispersed viewers. and Europe and unite families and friends who can watch TV or OTT or IPTV together.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 28, 2019

We talked to the founders of Embargo a while ago and wanted to catch-up to see how the platform has developed. Collectively, the founders realised the ideal solution was to foster a better connectivity and relationship between venues and customers via an easy to use app and create a CRM platform for venues to drive business.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

He started the Stanford Honors Co-op in 1954 which allowed companies in the valley to send their engineers to Stanford graduate engineering programs. And while the Soviets are fighting the Germans in massive land battles in eastern Europe, until the allies invade Western Europe in June 1944, the only way the U.S.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 9, 2015

by Mark Fabian Henkel, co-founder and CEO of Paymill. Challenges In Operation. In Europe’s retail trade, not all product groups are subject to the same law. Small and medium companies should regard the expertise of trustful partners in operative actions. Mark Fabian Henkel is co-founder and CEO of Paymill.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Chris McCann is the co-founder of StartupDigest , the members-only guide to the tech startup world. Dave argues that instead of providing connections you should let founders do 95% of the work and offer support with operational areas of expertise like design, data and distribution. spray-and-pray? Just look at AngelList?s

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

The founders of Apple Inc. The two bonded over their shared interests and went on to co-create one of the most revered, influential brands in technology. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. met in 1971 when Wozniak was in college and Jobs still in high school. During WWII, ‘the Big Three’ met in Iran in 1943 at the famous Tehran Conference.

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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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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Carolyn Yarina , Co-Founder and CEO of Sisu Global Health. Yarina, Co-Founder and CEO of Sisu Global, was recently named to the Forbes 30 under 30 list for Healthcare, one of many awards the company has received for its work. She is the primary inventor of a modular centrifuge that operates with or without electricity.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 12, 2017

It is important to note that passion, integrity, and commitment do not represent the full range of abilities an angel investor seeks in any startup founder. These individuals don’t even have to be operational, and angel investors have been known to find them being advisors to the business as acceptable. Credible Experience.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 9, 2013

On the sidelines of Crowdsourcing Week , freelance staffing site Elance.com ‘s Kjetil Olsen, its vice president for Europe, shared the results of its most recent Global Online Employment report. Clients in Singapore hired most freelancers from India, United States, Pakistan, United Kingdom and Philippines. .

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Karen Bantuveris, Founder and CEO of VolunteerSpot. She is the Founder and CEO of Volunteer Spot an online coordination app that facilitates volunteering. Prior to Carlyle, Mr. Dahl served as co-head of healthcare investment banking in North America at Credit Suisse First Boston. Robert Dahl. Includes drinks and hors d’oeuvres.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 12, 2012

Instead of increasing the tax burden on these companies driving job creation, why not take full advantage of this evolution of the tax law to position France as the most attractive country for entrepreneurs in Europe? Indeed, France enjoys the highest penetration rate for broadband in Europe (32.7% for France vs. 26.5%

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I’ve always respected his views) and Paul Jozefak , a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures). We discussed European VC, which is rumored to be down by up to 82%. We talked about Facebook.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2012

Also, as Hubspot founder Dharmesh Shah points out, it means that employees don’t scramble to use their vacation days at certain points of the year, hoarding days and creating a spike of vacations that can leave the office short-staffed. Efficiency depends on human co-operation. Open source collaboration. Not necessarily.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 14, 2017

If you are a small business operator, risks are something you often want to avoid. Marketing products into international markets is not a simple task”, says Julio Oliveto, founder of Livre, an innovative wheelchair-tricycle company in Brazil. Overcoming Challenges of Growing Globally. Attracting Overseas Customers.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Andreessen Horowitz is telling entrepreneurs it prefers situations where the founders have controlling stakes, reckoning that theyll be better able to resist outside distraction and focus on making great products. One of its champions includes Jason Goldberg, the co-founder and CEO of online design retailer Fab.com Inc.,

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 12, 2007

Bessemer was also heavily represented with David Cowan , managing partner and co-founder of VeriSign ( see his post about the event ), Rob Stavis , BVP’s New York-based managing partner who led our investment in Skype, Byron Deeter , partner and founder of Trigo and our COO/managing partner Ed Colloton. Europe Consumer. (1).

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The Next Web

JANUARY 16, 2014

He is co-founder of international start-up community event organisation 3beards and founder and director of Albion Drive , a fully integrated communicaitons agency for entrepreneurs and challenger brands. If it is, then Australia does start to look appealing as a startup destination both as a founder and an investor.

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Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Setting up a cash management system from the get-go where profit is taken first off of every deposit, then Owners Pay, then taxes, sets up the Operating Expense account that the restaurant has to manage with… and guess what? Not only are they requisite for the guest experience, but they are highly effective for the operator as well.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 14, 2011

Raul’s contribution to PetsMD as a member of our Advisory Board for the last year has been outstanding,” said Tina Cannon Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer. PetsMD Inc., “His entrepreneurial online experience as Vice President with Travelocity has been invaluable in helping to sharpen PetsMD’s strategic focus.

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