Software By Rob

AUGUST 25, 2010

What we don’t often think about is that although there’s luck involved in becoming a “rock star,&# there are deliberate decisions a musician makes early in a career that will impact their level of success months or years later. Build a Fan Base, then Go Big The Beatles did not start touring Europe a week after they formed.

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The Next Web

MAY 4, 2013

Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Stefano Bernardi, who is on the founding team of Betable , where he heads Customer Development. Previously, he worked in venture capital in Europe. Here’s the hard cold truth: Your chances of raising money from US investors are extremely low. Investors worry about these things.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Other social networking, online marketing, clean-tech and bio-tech companies have fallen out of favor with some investors, fueling speculation regarding the future of the US technology sector. Though simple, the reason is often ignored in the heated political debate about globalization and its impact on local jobs. They are not alone.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

He also talks about the rate of growth and the need to pick targets, measure and question assumptions when you aren’t achieving your objectives. I talked about some of that here. He talks about making things that people want & going after a big enough market. .” But I do wonder about a couple of things: 1.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

He created Fox Kids Europe and took it from scratch to worth North of 1 billion Euros in value and was ultimately sold as part of a $5.3 Dana Settle (Greycroft) & I had led the first round of investment in the company in 2010 and we were looking for smart media investors to join us as investors in the company.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 20, 2018

Sequencing the human gene took us a decade and $2.7 Today it takes us now mere hours and costs less than $1,000. Today, with about 7.2 And 75% of vaccines in the developing world show signs of freezing, with an estimated one-fourth to one-third of all vaccines which are administered being ineffective.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 1, 2014

For many start-up companies, the dream is to one day become the other half in a merger or acquisition with a larger, more developed organisation. Like the saying goes, ‘networking is everything’ and it’s all about who you know. Build Strategic Partnerships. Get People with the Goods.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2019

At least in developed countries, and geographic regions, like the US and Europe, currency traders have been advantaged by these developments enormously. Because these regions have always had higher penetration rates of novel technological developments, traders have enjoyed higher levels of mobility and flexibility. .

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 11, 2021

It was the end of January 1988, about nine months since we had embarked on turning Brad’s solo consulting shop, Feld Technologies, into a real business. We planned to use smart yet inexpensive software developers to build business application software. Dave worried about paying rent. It was gut-wrenching.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Watching him develop over the past 4.5 years at Upfront has been both a pleasure and also has taught me a lot about venture capital. This latter bit is very important to us and very hard to achieve. I mentioned at the start that Kevin has taught me something about Venture Capital.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2023

A Tourist Destination These capitals are more than top tourist destinations , and while it wasn’t possible to include nearly as many of the best places there are for startups; from scenic Iceland that brought us Alvotech, Contralant, and CCP Games.

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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. Two weeks after Brad’s post I was at the 140 Conference in LA and I held open office hours for any entrepreneur who wanted to spend 15 minutes talking with a VC about their business.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2016

Following the company’s success, Hortensius remains honest and open about the fact that the journey wasn’t always smooth-sailing and as it is in the nature of many business endeavours, mistakes were made but fortunately, lessons were also learnt. Giving the wrong company perks and benefits. Being too direct during meetings.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2016

I talk about failure a lot because I think it can be tremendously instructive and I think that success without failure often masks underlying lessons. In my experience the US loves the narrative of the come back. I say this as somebody who has lived in 6 countries and worked in 9 — having lived abroad for 11 years of my work life.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

The Truth About the Scooter Economy?—?An Pause to think about how remarkable that truly is. The world all around us is filled with invisible things that don’t disturb us because they’ve always been there. They are no longer remarkable in Santa Monica or Venice or in many cities in America, Europe or South America.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Europe is roughly the same as the US. These markets represent about $600 billion of total spend between them, leaving tons of opportunities for startups to disrupt and grow large. But you must work hard to develop alternate distribution at websites like Yahoo!, Yet many of the startups I see are very US centric.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

He has grown our US operations from 1 employee (him) to a global organization of 75 employees that will finish the year with 8-digit revenues (90+% recurring) and more than 350% year-over-year growth. Rob has taken > 15 trips to England and Nick even more to the US. Can you please call Stacy to ask about our BD deal?

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Additionally, we talk about how businesses need to adapt and leverage data visualization tools for better insights since AI is playing an increasing role in data analysis. 04:41] About this new platform, what does it do differently, and what does it do better? [07:08] Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please!

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

His software is used by over 1,000 users in 40 countries spread over 5 continents. Aggressive expansion plans will no doubt see Ben explore off-the-beaten-track towns in Europe and South America in the near future. We speak to Benjamin about entrepreneurship and building a startup. And he’s not stopping there.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

I’m declaring De Correspondent the most interesting journalism start-up I have read about in 2013. I’m declaring De Correspondent the most interesting journalism start-up I have read about in 2013.” Here’s the result: Journalists, designers and developers participated in brainstorm sessions about how De Correspondent would operate.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 24, 2012

The second category is composed of companies that have developed a unique IP locally and marketed it worldwide - typically in the gaming, software, security or mobile sectors. Why Eastern Europe? Big Data is not only about volume but also about the type of data. mobile phone per person for the Top 4 EE countries (vs.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 4, 2014

According to the author, over 400 million households in the East earn more than US$15,000 per year. The old paradigm of manufacturing in China and selling in Europe and US is no longer entirely true. With 31 majority Muslim countries in the East and a total regional Muslim population of about 1.1

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2018

Investors are human, after all Come up with a valid reason because they know in communicating with founders if there’s no reason to say “no” you can generate bad will Risk missing out on an inflection point: Investors of course are also concerned about saying “no” too early in the process when they can “hang around the rim” and see what happens?

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David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2013

The group is about 22 people; managing directors, partners and COO’s of major investments firms in Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, and Tunisia. Speakers need not have experience in the Maghreb, but should be able to speak about their experience and opportunities they see for the sector. More details.

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Jason Ball

FEBRUARY 16, 2008

I joined the Qualcomm Ventures Europe team earlier this month. Qualcomm, Inc ( NASDAQ: QCOM ) announced their European fund last May , in addition to Qualcomm Ventures in the US, China and India. As always, if you’re working in an area I’m actively investing into or blogging about, don’t hesitate to drop me a line.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 12, 2019

Waking up each morning knowing you are getting to do exactly what you love is more than most people could ever say about any “job” they have had. We asked some entrepreneurs what they loved about “being their own boss.”. #1- 5- Learning and development. The reasons are as varied as the businesses themselves. 1- Three things.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 16, 2012

Some countries in Europe may have lost their AAA ratings, but they have not lost their appetite to innovate and create new online services. It is interesting to note that this model has been invented in Europe (Blablacar started in 2006) and while there have been some similar and more recent initiatives in the US (e.g.,

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 5, 2015

This is one of the only indicators that cannot lie about the future: Tomorrow , we will all be older than we are today! Statistics show that populations in Europe and Japan are having fewer children, while both places face distressing recent levels of youth unemployment. And right now Europe is witnessing a historic migration crisis.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

A finalist in the Blockchain category , which will pitch on at 9:30 am Sunday, March 10, Knowbella has a mission to create a publicly available scientific ecosystem whereby all the research data and publication development are open and transparent. Knowbella founder Jason Barkeloo answered some questions about his company. Never quit!

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techcrunch.com

JUNE 22, 2012

So, the Founder Institute has developed a solution to this long-standing pain in the ass that all startups experience. But what’s so cool about this is that, in the spirit of this flexibility, the team is architecting the document by way of crowdsourcing. We respect your anonymity feel free to directly email us.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

When you think about Switzerland, there are usually three things that come to mind: fantastic watches, beautiful mountains, and gigantic corporate banks. However, the Swiss tech industry has been growing rapidly in recent years, positioning itself as one of Europe’s top hubs. Switzerland also invests about 3.4%

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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”. Resource scarcity leads to innovation — as those of us who have lived and worked in the developing world are acutely aware.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2012

Most of us have a tendency to develop a strong case of sour grapes when we come across successful ventures. We look at these ‘lucky’ startups and talk about how the founders stumbled upon the perfect idea, and were in the right place at the right time. You can drop him a line at shenhanlee [ a ] yahoo.com.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 26, 2018

Whenever someone tells me about the progress humans have made, I remind them that since the beginning of humans, man has been trying to kill his neighbor to take over his backyard. It knows far, far more about you than the most intrusive government has ever known about its citizens. That, though, is the answer: user data.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

It only seemed logical for Akos and his partners to bring this concept to the US. We had a chance to interview Akos and asked about his story, how he started his business and the future of PanIQ. Tell us your story. For example exporting a new amusement concept to the US from Eastern Europe. What makes you unique?

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

The developments in technology now allow us to communicate with other people based anywhere across the globe within seconds. Indeed, even some of the largest and well-known companies in the world failed miserably, simply due to the lack of knowledge about their target market. Today, the world is smaller than it ever was before.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2020

The Forrest Four-Cast: March 1, 2020 People are rightfully concerned about the threat of coronavirus, which has so far killed about 2,800 people worldwide. Sheehan spoke about why he’s excited for insect-based food products, the importance of making good decisions, and why he admires Arnold Schwarzenneger. At least 2.8

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