Transformify

MARCH 14, 2020

At the same time, the stock markets collapsed, and most businesses already report skyrocketing losses, unmet revenue targets and insufficient stock due to production slow down in China, India and the rest of the world. Over the last decade, a new trend emerged as tech talent was scarce where it was needed the most.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

He grew up in Connecticut attended Yale undergrad and worked for IBM after graduation doing M&A, strategy and venture capital. In addition to Seth, the core team he pulled together consisted of Elaine, a product person with front-end engineering skills and sharp design sense, and Sandy a back-end server engineer.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Yes, venture capital is very good for scaling businesses rapidly. I personally have nothing against venture capital. As far as customer acquisition is concerned, we discussed, again the power of organic search engine optimization. In that case, why bother wasting time trying to raise money right now?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

You know, the weird thing, Derek, and I should probably let you speak some time, but I was deeply technical when I went into Andersen consulting, and I got paid much less than engineers who graduated, because I had a degree in economics. They paid engineers $4,000 more entry-point. Engineering vs. non-engineering. [00:10:32]

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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). Doug and his co-founder Vivek Nair , were not planning on raising any venture capital money yet.

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Reid Hoffman

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

During his long career in the venture capital industry, John, who invested in Amazon, Google, and Intuit, amongst others, became known for the emphasis he places on Objectives and Key Results, or OKRs, which he wrote about in depth in his 2017 best-seller, Measure What Matters. In John’s estimation, that means increasing the U.S.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 24, 2012

in India and China) The region has an exceptional talent pool: Eastern Europe was the first country to send a man into space in 1961 and has a very strong network of universities. mobile phone per person for the Top 4 EE countries (vs. in GE, 1.3 in Brazil and 0.8

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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.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Venture capitalists today don't exactly practice venture capital. Gnosis India. Next Anuj Mishra with Gnosis India presented an idea of doing highly technical workshops (CAD, Robotics) for students all around India, including rural India. I asked him to abandon this idea and find a better one.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

V: Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? GCVF is pioneering the future of venture capital and high growth startups for all small communities. Upekkha works with SaaS founders of Indian origin that use the India advantage for creating capital efficient growth.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

Some students who were getting their engineering graduate degrees wrote masters and PhD thesis that were classified. Four years later Ayer and another Granger engineer would leave Granger and found one of the preeminent electronic warfare and ELINT companies: Applied Technologies. The future of the valley was clear – microwaves.

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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.

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thebarefootvc

MARCH 8, 2012

We have a mayor that tweets regularly, just joined Tumblr, and has spearheaded the formation of a new engineering campus in NYC to address the need for more technical talent to support this increased entrepreneurial activity. I helped launch NYCSeed in 2008 in response to the lack of seed funding available in NYC.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2009

This is a story of one of the risks of venture capital. But some companies have entrepreneurs that seem talented on paper, are in a space that seems interesting to investors and are able to raise venture capital early in the company’s existence. True story.) 2 weeks later and we may never have raised any more VC.

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VC Cafe

JULY 21, 2020

In the past I’ve covered the rise of corporate venture capital and the growing number of Fortune 500 companies who are actively launching CVC arms or investing in startups/funds. Regional Google for startups accelerators (Africa, Brazil, India, etc.) But investing is only part of the picture.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

SIGNIFICANCE PROMINENT. --> The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail. An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. The National Venture Capital Association estimates that 25% to 30% of venture-backed businesses fail. Deutschland.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Five international MBA programs also boast Unicorn founders, namely INSEAD (France / Singapore / UAE), IIM Calcutta (India), Vienna University (Austria), Tel Aviv University (Israel), and University of Otago (New Zealand) (Please note that I only included MBA programs, and excluded Masters in Science degrees). Quikr (India): IIM Calcutta.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 6, 2011

It is clear to me, after doing these strategy sessions for over two years, that entrepreneurs need a lot more training on positioning and go-to-market, financing strategies, including alternative financing besides venture capital. Photo by yirsh. Discuss.

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

More recently, as I sit as a Venture Partner at Lightspeed , their franchise model across Israel, India, and China lends even more credence to the fact that consumer-level and application-grade innovation now knows no geographical boundaries.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

APRIL 2, 2012

Sankar, who is 31, was inspired to create the service based on her own experience as an undergraduate in India, where she studied at the highly selective Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur. million last year from the venture-capital firm Sequoia Capital, and raised an additional $6-million from investors in November.

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thebarefootvc

JUNE 13, 2010

This weekend I was at a family celebration in New Jersey and spent some time with an uncle who is a chemical engineer by training but also well versed in the Vedas, the ancient Hindu scriptures. Technology usage is no longer on the fringe, it is part of most people’s daily life, be it in India, Russia, Abu Dhabhi or Silicon Valley.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2023

It has played almost no role in the emergence of current non-US bred startups, including Alibaba in China, Waze from Israel, Paytm in India, and many more. He comes from a background in venture capital from inside and outside the Valley, as well as entrepreneurship work with startup efforts around the world.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2011

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. Among Microsoft’s 20 worldwide R&D centers, there are only three “strategic centers”: in India, China, and Israel.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

Since there was very little documentation my time was split between the design engineers who built the system and the test and deployment team getting the system ready to go overseas. After I was done teaching each the day, I continued to write the operations manuals and work with the test engineers. (I Are You Single? Sign me up.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Over the past two years, one of the most influential venture-capital firms has turned the usual rules of start-up investing on its head. In the early days of venture capital, when money was scarce, entrepreneurs often gave up control of their company in exchange for their first investment funds. Welcome, Logout.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

She has a masters degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

She has a masters degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2020

It has played almost no role in the emergence of current non-US bred startups, including Alibaba in China, Waze from Israel, Paytm in India, and many more. He comes from a background in venture capital from inside and outside the Valley, as well as entrepreneurship work with startup efforts around the world.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The timing is perfect, there is more than a little overlap with Vivek Wadhwa’s guest post on venture capital earlier today. The best composition is probably one engineer whose passion lies in the pixels on the screen and another engineer whose passion is making bits fly really fast through servers. Sorry, folks.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

We raised a seed round of capital in 1999 and our first venture capital round was the first week of March 2000 (e.g. I had very little cash in the bank yet the stories were still coming out about how we were going to change the world of online engineering and construction. We were based in London.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 10, 2010

Once they found a profitable business model they realized that scale required external venture capital to fuel rapid expansion. With venture capital came accountability to board members, forecasts, and other people’s agendas. This small group consisted of 12 engineers and designers under the direction of Don Estridge.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

If you are an entrepreneur seeking funding, try our free Funding Recommendation Engine to identify a list of angels, venture capital and state grant programs that best match your business. the hardware ecosystem in India) and internal reasons (e.g. Best of luck in your venture. Atlas Venture.

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David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

Typically engineering, QA, and support are offshore, while CEO, sales, and marketing are in the US. In addition, HOF has backed 10 companies with roots in Canada, China, Estonia, Finland, India, Germany, Denmark and Russia. Bi-national companies , which from inception have an international presence. Companies founded by immigrants.

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David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

Typically engineering, QA, and support are offshore, while CEO, sales, and marketing are in the US. In addition, HOF has backed 10 companies with roots in Canada, China, Estonia, Finland, India, Germany, Denmark and Russia. Bi-national companies , which from inception have an international presence. Companies founded by immigrants.

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

venture capital funding, which in turn is four times as much as in all of Europe. But visiting with entrepreneurs and executives from Europe, Israel, India, Singapore, and beyond brought the matter into much sharper relief. The “top down” effect of this cannot be overstated.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

They’re investing directly in Israeli companies and are also investing in domestic venture capital funds. In fact, Israeli VCs are increasingly viewing China as their main source of capital. Strategic and financial Chinese investors are increasingly investing in Israeli tech companies. billion people in 2009 to 4.9

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Europe and India are growing particularly quickly, and investment more than doubled from 2015, while the US is up 20%. A healthy funding environment and momentum in Europe Like the public market, the private funding environment is still at an all-time high in 2017 with an annualised investment rate of $8.4B in the US, $2.6B

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