The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Leveling the playing field, companies like Uvik, a start-up in digital payments in India, are providing access and affordability to everyday entrepreneurs from every corner of the globe to build their dream. — Sajan Pillai is the CEO and Managing Partner of Season Two Ventures, an early-stage venture fund based in Southern California.

Artificial Inteligence 141

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Global Technology 141

David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

VI: Revenue-based financing: The next step for private equity and early-stage investment. —– UP Fund is a rolling venture fund launched in Q4 2020, and part of global SaaS accelerator Upekkha, based in India. Versatile is an aggressive user of technology internally to manage the firm and make better investments. .

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Equity Revenue Cofounder Colorado 78

VC Cafe

JANUARY 14, 2022

The only countries that saw higher growth in tech investments were Germany (170%) and India (164%). India: $42 billion ??U.K.: In management positions, women representation is 23.3%. Plenty of fresh powder in the market across stages. Several other hires are underway for the local office. Part of a global trend.

Technical Review 159

Technical Review Lock-up Period South Korea 159

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2009

When you’re an early-stage startup that hasn’t raised any institutional money you end up doing almost every job function of the company yourself. I had an MBA, had done a few years of strategy consulting and knew all of the management theory. We hired people to run the UK and Germany. We raised just $500k.

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Founder Technical Review Startup Venture Capital 299

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

To replace them, employers spend $11,500 average per healthcare employee acquisition cost (20% of the annualized salary plus hiring incentives is considered customary for acquisition cost). There is no available simple or inexpensive way for employer and employee to find each other except through Monster-type services. Photo by designkryt.

India 115

India Silicon Valley Incubator Bootstrapping 115

Cracking the Code

JULY 5, 2016

One of their secret: acqui- hiring. For early stage companies, the stakes are even higher, and finding a great country manager is the single most important element of a successful launch. Fortunately, there is another, proven strategy, which I will expand on here – the acqui-hire.

Italy 59

Italy Technical Review Germany Poland 59

Up and Running

MAY 15, 2018

However, you’ll also need a steady flow of funds, especially in the early stages, to turn those ideas into reality. Funding is crucial for improving technology, hiring the right people, and launching a comprehensive marketing strategy to get a foothold in the market. How did you manage to secure funds for your startup idea?

SBA 84

SBA Angel Investor Technical Review Startup 84

BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 10, 2003

A number of my portfolio companies outsource development to India and other locales. 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.

Offshore 60

Offshore India Architecture Portfolio 60

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

You are here: Home » Hiring » Crazy! Written By Dan Martell on February 2nd, 2012 | Category: Hiring LeanStartup Marketing Metrics Startup Life | 6 Comments. Near shoring development with your team (ex: your team is based in Canada / India) is cool, but not outsourcing. Ability to hire top talent (A+ talent).

Technical Review 44

Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Moshe joined Microsoft in 1991 as a product manager after a career as a software developer. He worked on his MBA at MIT’s Sloan School of Management (leaving in the middle for a job at Microsoft in Israel) and received his computer engineering degree from the Technion in Haifa, Israel.

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Venture Capital New Zealand Startup 100

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

But this was early 2000 and our US competitors had already closed rounds North of $45 million. Within a year I hired 92 permanent staff and another 30 full time contractors. We set up a development center in India and I had to be there for three weeks to tour all of the prospective cities. It’s still acid reflux.

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Entrepreneur Silicon Valley San Diego Non-Compete 308

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. Inevitably, the excuses begin: I need to hire people to build the product. Thus had to spend hard cash building a half way completed demo outsourced to India. No legal muck.

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Eighty-two percent have global offices, and yet 91% are still run by Israeli CEOs, as opposed to foreign executives hired from the outside. In the old model of Israeli startups, many Israeli executive teams would hire a vice president of sales in the U.S. until the late-stage go-to-market phase may be too late.

Cofounder 20

Cofounder Technical Review United States 20

www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Where can I find co-founders who understand distributed systems and databases? How have non-technical founders found technical co-founders? Finding Co-Founders: What are some good ways to find technical co-founders in India? Would that take away my right to talk about successful entrepreneurs and top managers? Obviously not.

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Developer Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder 42

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Only after reaching $1M in CMRR should you consider hiring European sales and services execs behind customer demand. To learn more about the CAC ratio and CLTV, you can read Philippe Botteri’s white paper “CAC Ratio - One Number to Manage your SaaS S&M Spend” also available at www.bvp.com/saas. Philippe Botteri.

Software Review 48

Software Review North America Europe Metrics 48

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 5, 2010

The CEO weighs in with his perspectives, the head of product management disputes his conclusions and the marketing VP has a different take. He gossips with the office manager who tells 3 software developers. I don’t like distributed development teams in early stage businesses. And it doesn’t stop there.

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Distribution Offshore CTO Hire Bulgaria 335

Hearpreneur

AUGUST 9, 2019

So I hired an incredible team and together, we created a solution to solve my very own problem so that we could have a home that is true to our family’s values, pocketbook, and one that respects our planet and is mindful of our future. #8- During this time she began showing increasing signs of early-stage dementia.

Entrepreneur 117

Entrepreneur LLC San Francisco Mexico 117

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Task Management. Project Management Tools. Subscription Payments / Management. Managing APIs. Customer Relationship Management. Contractor Management. Private beta invitations & management: Prefinery.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

There simply won’t be soft-landings and acqui-hires for all of them. Others have blamed the brutal hiring environment on everyone being able to start a company — whether they should or not — and argued that concentrating resources on fewer ideas would make the Valley a lot stronger. Now it’s glutted.

Technical Review 93

Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93