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.

Belarus 107

Belarus Kazakhstan Portugal Accredited Investor 107

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

I will work with him on his inventory financing strategy. 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. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

India 114

India Silicon Valley Incubator Bootstrapping 114

www.seriesseed.com

DECEMBER 9, 2012

Series Seed Financing Documents Blog. Series Seed Financing Documents. Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Series Seed Financing Documents : 1 Reblog. My quest is to simplify financing for seed stage investments. it is one of pdf search engines (for example [link]. Series Seed Financing Documents.

Finance 40

Finance Term Sheet Vesting LLC 40

Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 20, 2011

a Site Finds Love in India : Ignighter was in the TechStars Boulder 2008 class. Daniel, Adam, and Kevin have pivoted around a few times and ended up creating the fastest growing dating site in India – from their office in Manhattan. Gnip Is Hiring : Sales people and engineers in Boulder. Jilted in the U.S.,

Technical Review 118

Technical Review India Angel Investor New York 118

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Sequoia has financed them. Rajeev wants to build a BPO firm in a place called Bolpur in West Bengal, India. Bolpur is home to the Viswabharati university, as well as several other small engineering and professional colleges. Anyway, those are just a few blue sky ideas for you to go after.

Cloud 117

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

I call it drip-financing. Most entrepreneurs have no choice but to avail of this sort of financing along with the mentoring and the contacts that could come with it (doesn't always come along, though). In 1M/1M, our preferred financing strategy is customers. Because customer financing equals revenue, not equity.

Cloud 115

Cloud Silicon Valley Incubator Finance 115

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Parallel6 is already clocking over $1 million in revenue and is looking to enhance its customer acquisition and also raise some financing. Then Prashant Singh from Bangalore, India, discussed Statisco Economic Analytics , a risk management technology for managing company balance sheets, interfacing with their ERP systems.

North Carolina 116

North Carolina San Diego Entrepreneur Balance Sheet 116

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

First is that there are, perhaps, a thousand people in the world of entrepreneurship who know what they are doing when it comes to dealing with issues like financing, positioning, market sizing, customer validation, customer acquisition and other seemingly obvious topics that all entrepreneurs need to deal with. Please try to understand why.

Silicon Valley 114

Silicon Valley Technical Review Startup Early Stage 114

Hearpreneur

JULY 1, 2020

So if you were to use Google or any other search engine, your name would be lost in the crowd. I got an engineering degree and worked on various entrepreneurial projects but my heart was always in data science and analytics. Now that my new career is in the personal finance industry, I’m helping women tame their money.

Naming 149

Naming Entrepreneur New Hampshire LLC 149

crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

The survey indicated that the VCs surveyed felt the best prospects were for entrepreneurs in emerging markets like China, Brazil, and India. It has become a cliche that startups are the engines of job growth in the US, and this is for a very good reason: they are. Startups will sustain domestic employment.

Technical Review 93

Technical Review Venture Capital India Startup 93

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 24, 2011

The discussion today was around Social Media financing and go-to-market strategy. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant, she writes the blog Sramana Mitra On Strategy , and is author of the Entrepreneur Journeys book series and Vision India 2020. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes.

Illinois 114

Illinois Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Chicago 114

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 7, 2010

That is debt financing that converts into equity at the Series A valuation once the price for that is set. (I Our discussion today was largely around her financing strategy, and one of the key milestones that I probed her on was: What does it take to get a validated customer? Sub-$2 million pre-money, it is better to bootstrap.

Valuation 119

Valuation Silicon Valley Pre-Money Valuation Bootstrapping 119

Up and Running

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

And in the 21st century, it will take China and India just 15 years. For example, one occupation in high demand— wind turbine service technicians— perfectly illustrates the growth of the engineering and alternative, clean energy sector. The top three bachelors and masters degrees included finance, accounting, and computer science.

Small Business 60

Small Business Artificial Inteligence Demand Technical Review 60

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

I got a job at a bank, and I worked in their corporate finance group. We had a finance group for all of the bank branches based in San Diego, and I wrote programs to download stuff from the mainframe so we could do analysis three days faster than they could send us the data. They paid engineers $4,000 more entry-point.

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Cofounder Technical Cofounder San Diego Startup 337

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 27, 2011

For a more elaborate explanation of the deal, please read my blog post 1M/1M: Alternative Financing For Startups Using A Sales Channel Partner. Clearly, it can go much further, and Hicham is trying to decide whether he grows organically, or raises outside financing. The business is already profitable with $2.9 million in revenue.

Dilution 114

Dilution Revenue Finance Entrepreneur 114

K9 Ventures

APRIL 14, 2020

HiHello has a remote team of engineers – in New York, Pennsylvania, Colorado, and California. It was an incredibly busy and stressful time as my father was critically ill and I had to urgently leave for India). I am pleased that I/K9 Ventures got to lead the Pre-Seed round of financing for Pragli.

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Cofounder Venture Capital Guerilla India 127

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 25, 2015

Graphic designers in the Philippines, IT professionals in India and writers in Britain have become easier to engage with. A systems engineer from India is often no better than one from Africa, however, preexisting stereotypes will work to the advantage of the former. Stereotypes are always a challenge.

India 100

India Philippines Africa Affiliate 100

Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

I reviewed my finances and saw that I could buy myself a window of time to step away from my job. I was at a girl’s school in rural Uttar Pradesh, India, which is the base of the base of the base of the pyramid. A school that was at first such a threat to the status quo is now being heralded as the future for education in India!

Design 48

Design India San Francisco Technical Review 48

K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

In December 1996, while I was still a student in the Master of Software Engineering program at Carnegie Mellon, I got bit hard by the entrepreneurial bug. ” The options were to either go back home to New Delhi, India, or, risk getting myself into an immigration nightmare. I always knew that I would someday start my own company.

United States 114

United States Founder India Venture Capital 114

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Let’s say you’re an entrepreneur in India. You should type something like this into Google: “banks in India business plans”. For example, you might try: “What kind of business plan does United Bank of India require for a loan?”. The first search engine result that is not an ad appears promising: EnergyLab.

Global 62

Global South Africa United Arab Emirates United Kingdom 62

The Next Web

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

There are numerous VCs in Japan, but the landscape is still not nearly as built out as it is in India and China, and has nowhere near the level of Silicon Valley VC influence that those two countries have. In other words, you don’t see Silicon Valley bigwigs in Japan, but they’re all over India and China.

Asia 123

Asia Silicon Valley India China 123

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

As a result, the expectation is that you have to figure out a way to get to some level of momentum on your own (by bootstrapping) or with small doses of angel money - "drip financing" so to speak. Gnosis India. In today's India, people with high-end engineering skills are in high demand.

Channel 115

Channel India Bootstrapping Silicon Valley 115

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Nonetheless, in the last couple of years, the flow of first-time entrepreneurs who come out with the misconception that Entrepreneurship = Financing has not abated. Folks, please understand a simple point: Business schools, when they teach you entrepreneurship, teach you about financing. Jay does not have that yet. Discuss.

Early Stage 116

Early Stage India Entrepreneur Silicon Valley 116

ReadWriteStart

MAY 4, 2011

Pune has become a hotbed of product entrepreneurship in India, and I was curious to see what kinds of ventures are cooking there. He is exploring outside financing, but my concern is that unless the growth rate accelerates, this particular business may not fit the venture model. On April 17, I was in Pune for a 1M/1M live event.

India 116

India Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Massachusetts 116

ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

OrangeScape positions itself as an Application Platform As A Service (APaaS) provider, and has some marquee customers in India including Unilever, Citibank, Pfizer, AstraZeneca, and Sterlite. And in comes the Google App Engine as Google's offering in this context. Building new apps is also not as simple. Enter OrangeScape. Discuss.

Entrepreneur 114

Entrepreneur India Silicon Valley Massachusetts 114

ReadWriteStart

MAY 26, 2011

Next, Priyanka Bhatnagar from Pune, India, pitched Priyanka Bhatnagar Jewellery & Accessories , an e-commerce jewelry line. Adam needs a crash course on financing and should go digest the 1M/1M curriculum module on that topic ASAP. Also, folks, remember, the Microsoft India Startup Grant application deadline is May 31.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 21, 2011

Earlier, of course, we covered AngelList at length , also a crowd sourcing venture in the angel financing space, and this week, we have covered SecondMarket , which is powering Facebook's private market capital raising. She writes the blog Sramana Mitra On Strategy and is author of the Entrepreneur Journeys book series and Vision India 2020.

Affiliate 130

Affiliate San Francisco Entrepreneur India 130

Pascal's View

AUGUST 28, 2010

There is plenty of debate, however, over what drives that job creation engine in our country. 6) The most efficient fuel for this IPO engine is venture capital. billion, followed by finance, 19 deals, and healthcare, 17 deals. The fact that Singapore, Brazil, India, China, Chile, the U.K., GDP growth, the U.S.

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Venture Capital America Initial Public Offering IPO 56

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 16, 2010

However, Deborah is looking for ways to sell her low carbon footprint green house technology to producers, and is in conversations with producers in Senegal and India. The company is profitable and has so far raised only $400,000 in friends and family and angel financing. Jimmy asked if he should be raising money at this point.

Senegal 117

Senegal Nevada Bootstrapping Silicon Valley 117

ReadWriteStart

JULY 28, 2011

It is currently evaluating options and strategies for growth and the possibility of additional financing. I like the idea, but to go from idea to financing, there is a long road for Adarsh to travel still. She writes the blog Sramana Mitra On Strategy and is author of the Entrepreneur Journeys book series and Vision India 2020.

Incubator 128

Incubator Silicon Valley Malaysia Entrepreneur 128

ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

That means that less than 1% of the entrepreneurs who apply succeed in getting financed. I have a fundamental observation to make here that seems to be lost in the noisy universe of entrepreneurs' obsession with fund-raising: Most companies should not raise external financing. His firm invests in four. That's a 0.21% hit rate.

Incubator 116

Incubator Silicon Valley Idaho Entrepreneur 116

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Benson's business needs $500,000 to get off the ground, buy a machine, and meet the operating expenses, and he primarily came to discuss his financing options. My assessment is that this is not a traditional venture financing type deal. Qualitas Technologies.

Startup 113

Startup India Silicon Valley Incubator 113

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Cristina currently has a couple of large customers in pilot mode, and is starting to show metrics on how much improvement IDES can deliver over existing analytics engines. All this, could, potentially, be done without external financing. At this point, financing discussions are premature and are likely not to yield success.

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Partner Belgium Portugal Bootstrapping 117

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 13, 2011

You then become dependent on outside financing, and that is a slippery slope. It is very expensive to scale operations in multiple cities, and there is absolutely no chance of VCs financing yet another Groupon look alike without serious traction. I said, no. It is much better to grow organically with revenue. Cortese Design Bags.

Business Model 122

Business Model New Hampshire Dallas Entrepreneur 122

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 6, 2011

This curriculum is based on the various questions entrepreneurs have asked me over these 64 sessions, spanning financing, positioning, customer acquisition, marketing, sales, channel, and various other early stage, startup-related issues. He is looking for financing for the show. And that is what I advised J.J. Photo by yirsh.

Vertical 115

Vertical Web San Francisco Entrepreneur 115

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 8, 2011

We have discussed the topic of technology product companies from India on my blog for many years now. I can say this with confidence based on my first hand experience mentoring a number of serious and promising Indian product entrepreneurs in the 1M/1M program, one of which, Freshdesk, has just raised financing from Accel Partners.

Greece 116

Greece Entrepreneur India Silicon Valley 116

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Next Laval Bhatt with Trinity Business Solutions discussed his fledgling consulting company in India offering business requirements analysis and a set of other services to IT consulting companies and a variety of other segments. Trinity Business Solutions. The TAMs are much too small, and the M&A activity is very small.

Bootstrapping 113

Bootstrapping IP India Silicon Valley 113