YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 4, 2014

Are China and India still the “factory” and “outsourced service provider” of the world? They should also consider launching online B2C or B2B platforms incorporating mobile and social-commerce. How big is the market for Muslim-friendly products and services? A “China + 1″ Strategy.

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Technical Review United Arab Emirates Saudi Arabia China 171

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 27, 2011

Asia – especially in countries such as India, China, Vietnam – is fast becoming the place where many entrepreneurs, whether locally born or lured back from Silicon Valley, are setting up shop. The second part covers the various sectors that have seen the biggest growth in Asia.

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Asia Technical Review Vietnam Singapore 167

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Held on January 15 to 17, 2012 in Mumbai, India, the event is designed to create a forum for some of the top marketing professionals to congregate and create a marketplace for ideas and services that will help Asian companies get the marketing edge.

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Asia India Mobile SEO 171

ReadWriteStart

MAY 5, 2011

First up, Satya Choppadhandi from Bangalore, India, presented Evolutech Networks, a company that manufactures wireless energy monitoring devices for the smart home. The smart home business is still in the very early stages in India, and it will take some time before Evolutech ramps up. These resellers buy devices from the U.S.

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Costa Rica Incubator Silicon Valley India 115

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

During today's roundtable, we had four Microsoft BizSpark Startup India Challenge grant finalists present. Freshdesk First, Girish Mathrubootham from Chennai, India, pitched Freshdesk , a SaaS company that provides small and medium businesses with on-demand customer support software that offers multi-channel social support.

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India Bootstrapping Non-Compete Entrepreneur 123

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 7, 2015

This will get you couple hundred sign ups from early adopters and mobile app enthusiasts. Many mobile entrepreneurs got their first customers through direct emailing. Mark McDonald is the co-founder and co-CEO of Australia’s Leading App Development Company , Appster. or Startupli.st. Survey Tools. Cold Emails.

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San Francisco Cofounder Application Development India 100

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Tracking and payments will happen via the respective mobile apps. Serial entrepreneur Samar Singla is the founder of Click Labs , a technology solution provider with 5+ years of industry experience in developing enterprise grade solutions with focus on mobility. Scheduling. You can find Samar on Twitter and LinkedIn. .

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Demand Software Review Technical Review SMS 138

Board Effect

DECEMBER 5, 2023

ARMMAN , a nonprofit based in India, built an AI-based predictive model that evaluated the risk of expectant mothers who were likely to drop out of telehealth outreach programs. The program identified women at risk and sent voicemails describing preventative care to the expectant mothers’ mobile phones.

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Artificial Inteligence Generative AI Government ChatGPT 52

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. Applications such as Xtify , Local Response , and Placecast provided turnkey mobile solutions for retailers to target consumers.

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Technical Review India Mobile Hockey Stick 110

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Many questioned whether it could survive under the fail whale, inevitable competition from Facebook, founder fighting, fights with 3rd-party developers let alone become a revolutionary business that could make money. When Fred Wilson funded Twitter I guarantee you it wasn’t obvious that it was a billion dollar idea. Far from it.

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Technical Review America Partner United States 362

The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

However, this primarily applies to businesses within China and India, where these big firms reside, as they rarely invest in startups outside of those two countries. As I touched on before, China and India have the most mature VC communities. Sequoia , Accel , NEA , etc.). Of course, there are exceptions, but they are minimal.

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Asia Silicon Valley India Term Sheet 132

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 14, 2011

First up, Girish Mathrubootham from Chennai, India, presented Freshdesk , a SaaS solution for multi-channel customer support including knowledge base and social CRM support. The product has won a national award from the president of India for its empowerment of people with disabilities. Interviewstreet.com. Quantum Arc. ET Interactive.

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India Technical Review Entrepreneur Silicon Valley 126

VC Cafe

MAY 4, 2021

A few already launched but several others are in development. Started in 2016 by an agency called Mobile-Sphere , and seems to have no outside funding. Clubhouse attracts competition from every direction. The platforms. The social media giants are racing to introduce their own social audio experiences. like a Twitch, but with audio.

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Audio Software Review Open Source Social Network 139

ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

It is particularly satisfying for me to work with these entrepreneurs because I have long believed that India needs to diversify out of pure labor arbitrage. Other discussions on India's need for product companies have also been equally controversial. Upwardly mobile consumers, I am sure, would welcome a service like Delyver.

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Entrepreneur India Technical Review Los Angeles 118

The Startup Magazine

MARCH 28, 2018

Things get even more difficult for people who are not tech-savvy and often have to depend on third-party web developers and designers as these service usually come with a big price tag. So what to do when you have many other (more important) start-up costs to cover and are unable to afford a web developer? Source: Openvine.

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Cost Web Development eCommerce Philippines 75

thebarefootvc

JUNE 15, 2014

Resource scarcity leads to innovation — as those of us who have lived and worked in the developing world are acutely aware. In most of these countries, credit cards and traditional banking systems have not yet taken hold, making mobile money the only alternative to carrying cash (often in dangerous cities) and expending time to deliver cash.

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Africa India Bangladesh United States 40

Transformify

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

A country that is in the process of moving from a developing to a developed stage is considered an emerging economy or market. But today, these nations with rapid economic development have a growing impact on the world economy and are responsible for driving more than 50% of world economic growth. on average.

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Global Brazil Russia Singapore 95

YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2012

Singapore, as one of the most wired countries and a smartphone penetration rate at 70-percent, is uniquely positioned to embrace mobile commerce, asserts Elias Ghanem, managing director of PayPal Southeast Asia and India. Things are different for mobile commerce. billion by 2015. billion in 2010 to S$1.4 billion last year.

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Singapore Mobile Asia India 159

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 13, 2012

For the uninitiated, IIT KGP is considered one of the top technology schools in India, and it is located in the Eastern part of the country, not far from the city of Kolkata. NEN is part of the Wadhwani Foundation's efforts at entrepreneurship development, and it is great to see how pervasive their success has been.

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India Entrepreneur Asia Programming 117

thebarefootvc

MAY 13, 2017

There were some debates at the MIT conference on where we were in blockchain development vs the internet (is it 1960’s or 1990’s?). The core of the talk was to explain how decentralized technology is the next generation of what we saw develop with the internet. I’m not sure that this is the right way to frame it.

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Finance Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Internet 53

Diego Basch

JULY 12, 2019

Then social networks, and finally mobile computing. The role of most developers at these companies is to glue cloud services together. In terms of hiring software developers, it’s the most expensive location I know of; you’re competing for the best and brightest with the infinite pockets of Facebook, Google, and friends.

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Silicon Valley San Francisco Asia California 40

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Today James Hickey from San Diego, California, pitched Parallel6 , a company that does social media marketing services for brands and also has a white label mobile app that can be customized and branded for their clients' mobile and social marketing needs. Statisco Economic Analytics.

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North Carolina San Diego Entrepreneur Balance Sheet 116

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

She and her family explored every possible avenue for treatment, and they found a number of methods that helped ease her pain and improve her mobility. Previously a fitness instructor at the top of her game, Ashley was once again facing a life of chronic pain and limited mobility. Developing the FasciaBlaster.

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Costa Rica Programming Entrepreneur Alabama 140

VC Cafe

DECEMBER 5, 2011

For example, you can save 7 trees in the rain forest in south america for £1, and in India you can get all you can eat curry…(see the presentation on the link below – 300 views in about 1 hour from posting!). Pound Around the World. View more presentations from Eze Vidra.

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South America Ruby India Early Stage 105

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 5, 2015

While today’s generation may be relatively prosperous, the country’s one child policy is beginning to take its toll; smaller numbers of the next generation will have to support a much more massive pool of aging citizens just like in the so-called developed countries. And this change will only continue to move quicker! What can we do?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Class 3: Our guest speaker for session 3 was Anja Manuel , former State Department official, founding partner of Rice, Hadley, Gates and Manuel and author of This Brave New World : India, China and the United States. For example, in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor the U.S. knew how – and largely where – to respond.

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Technology Afghanistan Iraq Vietnam 397

Hearpreneur

JULY 1, 2020

Once I developed the fabric I wanted it to have a name that was memorable, and that described it in one word. 6- Representation of a mobile and maternal mammal. We eventually settled on the kangaroo, which is both mobile and maternal, literally transporting its young in its pouch. The word is popular in South India.

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Naming Entrepreneur New Hampshire LLC 149

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. mobile phone per person for the Top 4 EE countries (vs. in GE, 1.3 in Brazil and 0.8 I will elaborate a bit on the first one – Big Data.

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Czech Republic Russia San Jose Europe 99

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 31, 2015

Every year, our team conducts more than 500 customer development calls to understand what challenges the community is facing. Prerna began her startup journey after leaving a job as a management consultant, and launched Yaari, a youth-oriented social network in India. Here are some of our favorites: 1.

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Lean United States Fractional CTO Startup 60

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 29, 2023

According to Asian Development Bank, Covid-19 pushed 4.7 The pattern of using mobile apps in the post-pandemic has also changed. These days, more people tend to use mobile apps to access digital services, including online payments, food delivery, ride-hailing, investment, and shopping. Southeast Asia was walloped by Covid-19.

Asia 171

Asia Indonesia Silicon Valley Malaysia 171

thebarefootvc

JULY 13, 2017

There were some debates at the MIT conference on where we were in blockchain development vs the internet (is it 1960’s or 1990’s?). The core of the talk was to explain how decentralized technology is the next generation of what we saw develop with the internet. I’m not sure that this is the right way to frame it.

Finance 40

Finance Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Internet 40

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 18, 2014

One of its primary goals was to galvanize product development by discovering often-unstated customer needs and creating solutions for them. In India, young Intuit innovators conducted an experiment on helping farmers get the best price for their products — even though management initially wasn’t interested in the idea.

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Employee Operations Global Dilution 162

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 8, 2014

In India, this policy allowed young Intuit innovators to conduct an experiment on helping farmers get the best price for their products — even though management initially wasn’t interested in the idea. So, Intuit employees created an app for mobile phones that provided farmers with daily prices from various markets.

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Artificial Inteligence Guerilla Leadership Technology 182

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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Silicon Valley India Africa Burma 45

techland.time.com

JANUARY 16, 2013

22, TIME.com becomes the first global news site to roll out a fully responsive redesign optimized for mobile and tablet browsing. What it means, in the simplest of terms, is that all the pages of the site will now automatically resize to fit all computer and mobile-device screens. That’s because on Monday, Oct. More on TIME.

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Global Technical Review Minnesota RSS 68

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 31, 2016

A mobile app is on its way. Currently we are only operational in Mumbai, India and focusing on cooking and baking classes in the city. The first is that I come from a background of teaching and education, and I wanted a new career that would afford me the opportunity to continue to teach, educate, develop and mentor others.

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Entrepreneur India Cofounder Technical Review 48

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

I use to to learn, to grow, to ask questions for which I’m curious and to further develop relationships that I have. Mark then talked about Crittercism, a mobile feedback solution. After Meebo launched, his friends helped him get the word out and soon they were getting coverage as far a China and India. Not a chance.

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Connecticut Cofounder Silicon Valley Web 286