YoungUpstarts

MAY 31, 2011

He recently founded The Startup Centre , an India-based accelerator for early stage start-ups, and also a hub for initiatives related to tech, design and entrepreneurship. We communicated with Anand who kindly shared with us his thoughts on the start-up scene in India. I came back to India , in 2004.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

But the problem with this is that most VCs in the Valley, especially early stage ones, only like to invest in companies that are within driving distance from their offices. As I touched on before, China and India have the most mature VC communities. Sequoia , Accel , NEA , etc.). Golden Gate Ventures , Jungle Ventures , etc.),

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2015

I spoke with Steve about innovation in the movie industry, and to Venk about his journey from bureaucrat in India to entrepreneur here in the U.S., — In the next segment, I spoke with Venk Shukla about his journey from bureaucrat in India to Silicon Valley entrepreneur. If you can’t hear the clip, click here. So what did I do?

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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. in idea-stage and side-hustle founders using a Convertible Income Share Agreement, or CISA.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 5, 2010

I don’t like distributed development teams in early stage businesses. This is sometimes done in a cheaper part of your country but is more often done in a developing country rich with technical talent and smart people such as the Ukraine, China, India, Bulgaria and the like.

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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.

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Gust

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

As I’ve discussed elsewhere, Gust’s long-term goal is to serve as the infrastructure platform for the entire global, early stage finance industry. Instead, it is our eight years of indefatigable relationship and customer building with large segments of the world’s early stage finance industry.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 14, 2011

a group of entrepreneurs from TiE Chennai gathered at the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M) Research Park campus, and we spent the next four hours discussing strategy and tactics of early-stage entrepreneurship. The product has won a national award from the president of India for its empowerment of people with disabilities.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Now, e-commerce has had extremely slow penetration in India, one of the key reasons being the lack of reliability of the delivery and logistics chain. Another issue is that India has had no catalog shopping industry, so the consumer psyche is not used to buying products that would be delivered later. Photo by brokenarts.

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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. We had 6 developers, 1 head of product management, 1 QA in India and me. This is part of my ongoing series Startup Advice. We raised just $500k.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Jacqueline asked an important question: how do you mitigate your working capital challenges in an e-commerce company at the very early stages without raising financing? Some examples include Flipkart and Redbus in India, and Freshdiet in the US. money for an early-stage venture catering to a foreign market is abysmally low.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

Over funding often produces bad behavior in early-stage companies. I added a dev team in India to spearhead new initiatives and design our future UI. You can’t get 5 years into one. That’s falling prey to the “ mythical man month &# line of thinking. I had built computer systems before.

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David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

A typical VC thesis: “we invest in tech startups in Europe at an early stage” However, our experience shows that in many cases: . Thirty-four VC firms in OpenVC call themselves “early-stage” Yet, 30% of those don’t actually invest in pre-revenue startups.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Next Badri Badrinarayanan V S, from Chennai, India, pitched DiaSof , a software-based solution for disease management of diabetes patients in India. Apparently, India has 50 million diabetic and another 40 million pre-diabetic patients. Jay does not have that yet. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 6, 2011

She writes the blog Sramana Mitra On Strategy and is author of the Entrepreneur Journeys book series and Vision India 2020. And today, we have a group of early adopter premium members who are making good use of the program. In over 100 roundtables, I have personally coached more than 400 early-stage entrepreneurs.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Accenture opened massive operations in India & China and continued its industry dominance. During the down market they were able to double down on recruiting, sales, outsourcing, new market entries and marketing (yes, with Tiger ads ). I suspect when the wind calms down Bryce will be well positioned.

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David Teten

AUGUST 15, 2013

The most common tactic we’ve seen from large corporations is providing a package of benefits for startups in order to build relationships with early-stage companies. This program “will help early-stage consumer health companies navigate the unique challenges of building successful growth companies.” 3) Freebies.

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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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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Bottom line, early stage equity is very, very expensive. So at any point, if you are trying to raise money, and you are hearing from investors that you are too early and have too little validation, it may be a good thing. Then Liana Thompson pitched Trendy Loot , a very early stage deal site for low-end jewelry.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Rajeev wants to build a BPO firm in a place called Bolpur in West Bengal, India. In 1M/1M, I teach the EJ Methodology which is based on my Entrepreneur Journeys research, and emphasize bootstrapping, idea validation, and crisp positioning as some of the core principles of building strong fundamentals in early stage ventures.

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Cracking the Code

JULY 5, 2016

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. I was empowered to continue doing what I had been doing, but with a much larger budget and support from a team that shared my same passion.“

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The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

The Dutch ‘invented’ the limited liability corporation with the inception of the Dutch East India Company. Think of Stanford and Sandhill road in Silicon Valley, Route 128 in Boston or IIT in Bangalore India. In the upper echelons of tech you may well find someone offering you a: shhhmoke and a pancake. We need a center of gravitas.

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Netherlands Technical Review Stock Silicon Valley 143

K9 Ventures

JUNE 5, 2015

I still wanted K9 to be the first institutional money in a company and work with “frighteningly early-stage” companies. Your early stage investment portfolio may no longer really be early stage. A lot of this capital is coming from non-traditional geographies like China, Russia, Middle East, India.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Well, I have coached early stage entrepreneurs for a couple of years now - diligently, patiently - and have learned a few things. The first step is to develop some reference customers, something all early-stage startups should do. Telesales simply don't work without reference customers. Photo by tatlin.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 23, 2014

Klyati Trehan , a design student from India created a phenomenally impressive project, combining science and typography to visually represent 26 inventions that have changed the world. The Price Is Right: For Early-Stage SaaS Companies, It Needs To Be | TechCrunch – crowdspring.co/1j0ToYh. 1lD0q6Y.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Among Microsoft’s 20 worldwide R&D centers, there are only three “strategic centers”: in India, China, and Israel. Another problem is that in Israel we are lacking capital that invests in technology companies through maturity, what is known as the ‘growth stage.’

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Scalable Startup

JANUARY 15, 2015

People in the Philippines or India or eastern europe are very low cost – $7-10/hour. They keep you involved even from the early stages of the value chain including selecting the right engineers and taking direction and input on the future technical growth plan for those engineers. million dollar question. still have hope.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

“Early-stage business is becoming less of an art and more of a science,” he adds. The eight startups – covering the gamut of B2B, C2C, B2C and even B2B2C – are: AskAbt , from India, have a platform to manage real-time crowdsourced queries.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 14, 2011

The company is also looking at reaching out to non-traditional startup investors as another way to diversify their investment portfolios. “We believe that startup investing should be democratized and more people should have access to supporting early stage ventures,” states Grow VC CEO and co-founder Valto Loikkanen.

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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. For example, Bluestone , an online jewelry startup from India, was trying to compete with the traditional brick and mortar jewelry business market. Your business model should support your growth goals.

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A Crowded Space

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Early on, we would routinely get emails and chats from freelancers in Russia, Ukraine, India, Bangladesh, and the Philippines expressing tremendous thanks. Back in 2004 - 2010, he would routinely send me early stage companies to check out as part of his diligence process. Upwork had truly life-changing potential.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 9, 2019

During this time she began showing increasing signs of early-stage dementia. I learned firsthand about the everyday challenges those living with early dementia face, including using the telephone. Photo Credit: Tavis Schriefer. In 2009, my mother moved into a house across the street so I could help her with her daily needs.

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Haystack

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

over the last few years; in India, a Lightspeed portfolio company Udaan just hit the billion-dollar valuation mark; and last month in China, Pinduoduo rocketed from $0 to $23B+ in less than four years, going public. Only a small handful of other venture firms have grown into such global powers, such as Sequoia and Accel. [

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

To enable investors to identify funding gaps in ecosystems and fill them with early-stage or late-stage funding, depending on the ecosystem’s needs. Bangalore, India. To help entrepreneurs decide where they want to set up their companies. “Most of time they are not successful with what they do. Paris, France.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 3, 2020

Vancouver executive Christopher Kape is an entrepreneur and venture capitalist who founded JAMCO Capital Partners , an early-stage investment and strategic advisory firm that focuses on a number of industries, including gaming, high-tech, food and wellness. Chris enjoys staying active and is an avid runner, biker and traveler.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

In 1M/1M, I teach the EJ Methodology which is based on my Entrepreneur Journeys research, and emphasize bootstrapping, idea validation, and crisp positioning as some of the core principles of building strong fundamentals in early stage ventures. You can pitch to be featured on my blog following these instructions. Photo by takatuka.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Singapore-based early-stage technology seed fund Golden Gate Ventures has announced investments into cloud-based inventory and sales management SaaS solutions provider TradeGecko , online grocer RedMart and mobile payment provider Coda Payments. This marks Golden Gate Ventures first investments since its founding in February this year.

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