OnlyOnce

JANUARY 2, 2011

Ten years ago, each would have required dedicated hardware and operational maintenance. Inflation may seem like a neutral thing for a business – your costs may be going up, but your revenue should be going up as well, right? And yes, it’s a lot more fun to travel to Europe when a latte costs you $4, not $8.

China 74

China Startup Offshore Silicon Valley 74

YoungUpstarts

JULY 22, 2016

trillion global industry. You can’t eat through a web browser or move your kitchens offshore to a lower cost country! The trifecta of urbanization, digitization, and globalization undercuts job growth in some industries while fueling demand for restaurants. Unlike digital fads, food is survival.

Offshore 100

Offshore Texas Global Mobile 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2022

New entrepreneurs who want to survive, and optimize the growth of their startups, need to think globally, and act locally, from day one. This approach, popularly known as “ glocalization ,” means you have to design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market in which you operate.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2013

This has prompted some to move their entire operations offshore to try and avoid the prying hands of local government agencies. “The correlation is as follows: It wasn’t a horrible business, they made bank, and it wasn’t near technically impossible. In fact, it was only getting /a lot/ easier and lest costly.

Government 114

Government Security Intellectual Property Offshore 114

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2019

New entrepreneurs who want to survive, and optimize the growth of their startups, need to think globally, and act locally, from day one. This approach, popularly known as “ glocalization ,” means you have to design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market in which you operate.

Global 235

Global North America Intellectual Property Marketing 235

BeyondVC

MAY 11, 2004

In our weekly partner’s meeting yesterday, we ended up in a discussion about the progression of offshore development in a variety of portfolio companies. In the end, the companies that were doing the best job with development were the ones that had their own operations offshore. 6 months later only 2 are left.

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Offshore India Cost Belarus 60

Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

This drop in public valuations basically means that private companies lost half of their value in a comparable way and therefore the cost of capital doubled in the past month, pushing much higher the hurdle for any additional investment, be it in sales, marketing or R&D. Global warming: a plague for humanity? Global Warning!

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review Valuation Portfolio 48

BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 10, 2003

When offshoring it is important to think about what can and cannot be offshored, whether management can handle it, and whether or not you open your own office with your own infrastructure or outsource completely. Most of us end up using offshore development to work on non-core technology.

Offshore 60

Offshore India Architecture Portfolio 60

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

New entrepreneurs who want to survive, and optimize the growth of their startups, need to think globally, and act locally, from day one. This approach, popularly known as “ glocalization ,” means you have to design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market in which you operate.

Global 136

Global North America Intellectual Property Offshore 136

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

New entrepreneurs who want to survive, and optimize the growth of their startups, need to think globally, and act locally, from day one. This approach, popularly known as “glocalization,” means you have to design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market in which you operate.

Global 244

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 11, 2009

In effect, the unintended consequence will be to permanently keep these assets offshore and make U.S. companies pay more to intermediaries for the same service, because it will still cost them less than paying the higher tax burden imposed by the Congress. We must stop damaging America’s global competitiveness.

Global 31

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

Will the Bay Area’s cost structure compress the precious runway these newco’s have? Fred and his partners Albert, John, Andy, before Brad, now Rebecca have operated headquartered out of New York City, and have invested successfully near home (Esty, MongoDB, Kickstarter), in the Bay Area (Twitter, Coinbase) and in Europe (SoundCloud).

San Francisco 116

San Francisco Silicon Valley Seattle Venture Capital 116

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2011

New entrepreneurs who want to survive, and optimize the growth of their startups, need to think globally, and act locally, from day one. This approach, popularly known as “glocalization,” means you have to design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market in which you operate.

Global 258

Global North America Intellectual Property Offshore 258

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 18, 2015

New entrepreneurs who want to survive, and optimize the growth of their startups, need to think globally, and act locally, from day one. This approach, popularly known as glocalization , means you have to design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market in which you operate.

Global 120

Global North America Intellectual Property Offshore 120

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

JULY 12, 2012

It’s also not good that the most likely candidates for reshoring — high tech equipment intensive/low labour requirement operations — are very expensive to set up. Among the trends cited are things like intellectual property theft in China, supply chain and collaboration issues, and the rising cost of Chinese labor.

North America 95

North America Intellectual Property Software Review Offshore 95

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2012

New entrepreneurs who want to survive, and optimize the growth of their startups, need to think globally, and act locally, from day one. This approach, popularly known as “glocalization,” means you have to design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market in which you operate.

North America 260

North America Intellectual Property Marketing Offshore 260

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2010

Entrepreneurs who want to survive, and optimize the growth of their startups, need to think globally, and act locally, popularly known as “glocalization.” That means you have to design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market in which you operate. Find global sources now.

North America 223

North America Intellectual Property Offshore Startup 223

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 25, 2011

She was talking a lot about how the broader world doesn’t operate how we in Silicon Valley always perceive that it does. She encouraged people to get out and travel, see the world, see how other people live and operate. It globalizes. They struggle to maintain cost advantages. Om Malik was also on the panel.

India 334

India New Jersey Silicon Valley France 334

David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

While fundraising of US VCs has dropped slowly as a percentage of global limited partner allocations over the last decade, non-US startups are receiving a more rapidly increasing percentage of that money. Typically engineering, QA, and support are offshore, while CEO, sales, and marketing are in the US. Source: NVCA, Pitchbook.

United States 60

United States Silicon Valley Canada Offshore 60

David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

While fundraising of US VCs has dropped slowly as a percentage of global limited partner allocations over the last decade, non-US startups are receiving a more rapidly increasing percentage of that money. Typically engineering, QA, and support are offshore, while CEO, sales, and marketing are in the US. Source: NVCA, Pitchbook.

United States 60

United States Silicon Valley Canada Offshore 60

Transformify

APRIL 12, 2020

It’s an extra cost for the employer and most companies stick to 2-3 overseas locations to simplify remote working arrangements. Some companies create remote jobs to save on employment costs and benefit from the much lower pay rate overseas. An asset, no cost in the P&L. USD 30 000 rent (cost). Money Laundering.

Bangladesh 98

Bangladesh Philippines Salary Cofounder 98

Start Up Blog

JANUARY 20, 2017

Any government is only all powerful as long as the system it operates under is stable, and the people allow it to continue to control its market. This is an important and significant change in the global citizen landscape. Electric cars only cost around $2.50 A Government is just like a business in many ways.

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Government Technology Estonia Australia 48

Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

To continually innovate, companies need to operate at startup speed and cycle time much longer their 20 th century counterparts did. Continuous innovation requires the imagination and courage to challenge the initial hypotheses of your current business model (channel, cost, customers, products, supply chain, etc.) The founders.

Restful 227

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Today open source software has slashed the cost of software development from millions of dollars to thousands. For consumer hardware, no startup has to build their own factory as the costs are absorbed by offshore manufacturers. When the speed of how businesses operated changed forever. In the 1950’s and ‘60’s U.S.

Silicon Valley 335

Silicon Valley United States Venture Capital Software Review 335

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Optimizing profit above else led to wholesale offshoring of manufacturing and entire industries in order to lower costs. as the global leader in technology. No private or government funds operates as “patient capital” – investing in critical deep technologies that may take more than a decade to mature and scale.

China 333

China Venture Capital Government Artificial Inteligence 333

Hearpreneur

AUGUST 9, 2019

We decided to focus on giving homeowners and pros a better way to select and purchase items to reduce delays, cost over-runs and frustrations. Thanks to Yotam Alroy, Mindspace – Global boutique coworking provider ! #21- Two years later when we were almost done, we looked at each other and said there has to be a better way.

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Entrepreneur LLC San Francisco Mexico 117