Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 24, 2012

It took me some time to figure out a title and I eventually settled for “Building European Champions” as the region has proven its ability to generate very successful venture outcomes and will continue to be the birthplace of many successful technology companies. This low entry barrier should accelerate the pace of innovation.

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

EMERGENT RESEARCH is focused on better understanding the small business sector of the US and global economy. The Global Small Business Blog. Even the best venture capital firms have a lot of failures and few successes. Posted by: Atlanta Search Engine Optimization | April 16, 2008 at 07:38 AM. Globalization.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Texas is the most promising technology market in the United States. Or are they running to a fresh perspective, a massive talent pool, and an innovation culture that balances social impact with global domination? It is the tech hub of Texas and has the most local venture capital and attracts the most venture capital.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

Yes, the country north of the 49th parallel may have 1/10th the population of the United States , but when it comes down to pure entrepreneurship it punches far above its weight class. Amazon and Microsoft have large engineering offices in Vancouver and Toronto. There are a number of reasons for this.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Ricky and his team set out in 2015 to modernize accounting and have transformed Taxfyle over the years into a venture-backed company that serves tens of thousands of taxpayers each year, hundreds of CPA firms around the United States, and counts a Big Four accounting firm and international accounting corporations among its enterprise clientele.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

They will now be leveraging the 1M/1M-Persistent channel to go to market in the United States. And in comes the Google App Engine as Google's offering in this context. Well, it turns out that to port long tail productivity apps to Google's App Engine is a somewhat cumbersome job, and requires a lot of custom development.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

2018 set yet another all-time record for the number of paper books sold in the United States, as has been repeatedly true during the era of Amazon. Google realized that being the way to find the world’s information was a blitzscalable market, thanks to the network effects in its AdWords revenue engine. It’s a great business.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

Yes, the country north of the 49th parallel may have 1/10th the population of the United States , but when it comes down to pure entrepreneurship it punches far above its weight class. Amazon and Microsoft have large engineering offices in Vancouver and Toronto. There are a number of reasons for this.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 6, 2011

John has rightly observed that many small companies, as well as foreign companies trying to get into the United States, have limited budget, and could use 25% of the time of a sales rep in each geography, say, New York, San Francisco, Chicago, and Seattle. Photo by yirsh. Discuss.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

Last year was the most active year for IPOs in the United States since 2000. Entrepreneurs now can think globally about the opportunity, from day one but start locally. Thus a record number of entrepreneurs (and employees) are getting rich. Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 19, 2018

I hear a lot these days about gender imbalance in male dominated industries, Venture Capital being one of them. It combined the thrill of problem solving for some of top global companies with the even bigger thrill of always being part of a high performing team that tackled those problems shoulder to shoulder.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

News )—Stanford GSB, Harvard Business School, UPenn Wharton, Chicago Booth, MIT Sloan, Kellogg, UC Berkeley Haas, and Columbia Business School—and eight of the top ten global MBA programs , are all on the list of unicorns. Red Ventures (HBS, Wharton). Global Fashion Group (3x HBS, 2x Wharton). Red Ventures (2x Wharton).

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . Fund/SPV management services specifically are provided by Assure Services and Proteus Capital. ff Venture Capital hired two full-time engineers to build out Totem.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

As companies and cities wrestle with the future of work, future of cities, and future of tech made possible in a post-COVID future, the question is whether it also impacts — and presents an opportunity to address — one of the greatest problems of our time: the unequal distribution of economic opportunity across the United States.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

As a globally focused LP in early stage VC funds, we at Blue Future Partners have observed a growing trend of firms investing substantially in software tools, whether developing proprietary solutions or adopting off the shelf tools. But what tools are they using themselves to automate their own processes?

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David Teten

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Nearly every major Silicon Valley venture-capital firm has now invested in a B Corp ; maybe you will be one of them! Startup founders will work with Google engineers and receive mentoring from over 20 teams at Google, as well as outside experts and local mentors. Congratulations! J.M.Kaplan Innovation Prize. “The

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

led liberal international order and replace it with its own neo-totalitarian model where China emerges as the dominant regional and global power. Horowitz et al., “ China Has Made Drone Warfare Global ” Foreign Affairs , 2020. Our first guest speaker was Rear Admiral Lorin Selby , Chief of Naval Research, United States Navy.

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Pascal's View

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

The rapacious credit derivative and mortgage market financial engineers should have succeeded in proving the dangers of ‘one-size-fits-all’ thinking– to the world’s great detriment. IPOs negatively impacts American entrepreneurs most of all, regardless of whether they have venture capital or private equity backing.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 14, 2013

government’s role in setting investment policy, venture capital has set the direction for what new industries attract capital. Science and National Industrial Policy as we face the realities of China and global competition. Nearly 10,000 scientists and engineers received draft deferments to work in these labs.

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Pascal's View

MARCH 4, 2009

innovation and entrepreneurship, the crucial growth engines of. Without new approaches to collaboration among government institutions, corporations, universities, and venture capitalists, U.S. venture capital, and new commitments by private investors to funding of. capital to fund future innovation. 

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 25, 2013

The image above shows how the stress of being the President of the United States can quickly age a person. How One Startup Grew a $100M Business Without Spending Venture Capital | Forbes – [link]. Up Close With Facebook Graph Search | Search Engine Land – [link]. Time is rough to presidents.

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Pascal's View

JULY 8, 2009

Capital and talent are the two most valued and at the same time portable assets in the global economy. For more than three decades, the United States was the destination for the best and brightest minds from around the world. ” How should we respond?

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David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

Take a look at The Fortune Unicorn List : of the top 100 most valuable unicorns in 2016, 39 are currently based outside of the United States. According to the NVCA 2017 Yearbook , in 2004, 77% of global VC fundraising went to US VCs, and 85% of global VC dollars went to US startups. Source: NVCA, Pitchbook.

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David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

Take a look at The Fortune Unicorn List : of the top 100 most valuable unicorns in 2016, 39 are currently based outside of the United States. According to the NVCA 2017 Yearbook , in 2004, 77% of global VC fundraising went to US VCs, and 85% of global VC dollars went to US startups. Source: NVCA, Pitchbook.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Amidst an increasingly connected world, globalization is the order of the day. However, while the benefits are many (including more efficient communication and greater potential for collaboration), today’s digital age can put increased pressure on young businesses to expand globally — and to do so quickly. from France.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

We estimate that the global GMV for ride sharing was over $100B in 2018 (including Uber, Didi, Grab, Lyft, Yandex, etc) and still growing handsomely. Upwork is a global freelancing platform where businesses and independent professionals can connect and collaborate remotely. The idea is simple and simultaneously brilliant.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Our guest speaker was Rear Admiral Lorin Selby , Chief of Naval Research, United States Navy. It is the “venture capital” of the Navy and Marine Corps. It’s made up of ONR – the Office of Naval Research , ONR Global , the Naval Research Laboratory , and Special Projects (PMR 51.).

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

You have visits that you assume through organic search engine optimization. I start asking a lot of specific questions that help me with that global vague uncertainty, will this work? That if they can’t go get angel funding or venture capital funding, they can’t start a business. Do I need venture capital?

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

ARRIS, headquartered in Suwanee, Georgia, USA, specializes in the design, engineering and supply of technology supporting triple- and quad-play broadband services for residential and business customers around the world. ISRAEL CORP UNIT TO BUILD $680 MLN PERU POWER STATION. Israel Corporation is Israel’s largest holding company.

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

start-ups that turn into “Unicorns” - businesses with exits via IPO or acquisition of greater than $1 Billion - emanate almost exclusively from the United States, and far more specifically from Silicon Valley. venture capital funding, which in turn is four times as much as in all of Europe.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

In the first 50 years of commerce in the then-new United States, most businesses were general merchants , buying and selling all types of products as exporters, wholesaler, importers, etc. Venture capital firms, as we know them only date back to the 1970s.) Institutional Adjustments.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

Now the fastest growing demographic on Facebook is actually women over the age of 55, which in the United States it’s a segment that actually controls a lot of the money and the spending in households. It’s rare that investors will invest in a company that’s all engineers, or all creative. Think about that.

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Austin Startup

MAY 3, 2017

Today’s economy is substantially more freelance for one, but as it pertains to technology and innovative entrepreneurship, we find ourselves in an era that is bringing tech to traditional industries that have yet to have fully embraced what the internet has caused: data, connectivity, globalization, scalability, and efficiency.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Prestigious London-based Monocle magazine, a global briefing journal covering international affairs, business, culture and design, has chosen Haifa as the city with the most promising business potential for 2011. Global business magazine placed Teva CEO Shlomo Yanai 20th on its list of the top 50 leading businesspeople in the world.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. The pundits say the American dream is dead and this next decade will see the further decline and fall of the West and in particular of the United States. It may be that all the doomsayers are right. But I don’t think so.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

I am the VP of Engineering at a cutting-edge startup that sells software built on the.NET platform. You whine about how hard it is to find good engineers, then go on and on about how you intentionally avoid at least half of the market for skilled people? It’s also missing the point of engineering anything. Elaine Kenny.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

While the global financial crash of 2008 and the resulting Great Recession initially slowed job growth in Silicon Valley, the meteoric rise of smart phones and social media helped the tech industry as a whole to power ahead despite the near collapse of the global economy. A Variation on the Global Economic Crash of 2008?

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