Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

In the few days I was in China I met with several VC’s, angel investors, business press and spoke to hundreds of entrepreneurs. We had a fireside chat with a room full of eager entrepreneurs. If it’s driven by profit then the ecosystem needs both entrepreneurs as well as Venture Finance. Entrepreneurship in Beijing.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 14, 2022

The only countries that saw higher growth in tech investments were Germany (170%) and India (164%). 2021 Tech Trends: Israel is winning the global race for tech funding. Part of a global trend. Records were broken globally as well, both in terms of funding and number of unicorns. India: $42 billion ??U.K.:

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

In the few days I was in China I met with several VC’s, angel investors, business press and spoke to hundreds of entrepreneurs. We had a fireside chat with a room full of eager entrepreneurs. If it’s driven by profit then the ecosystem needs both entrepreneurs as well as Venture Finance. Entrepreneurship in Beijing.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Perhaps most famously, Guy Kawasaki quipped that the value of an MBA to an entrepreneur is “probably about a negative $250,000.”. The question is, can MBA entrepreneurs really think big? Unicorns have been over-hyped during the past few years, and nowadays frequently attacked by skeptics. Key Insights. Red Ventures (HBS, Wharton).

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 10, 2018

For instance, in India, none of the current platforms attract more than 34% of the population (which is 2 nd highest in the world). The answer is simple – India’s social platforms aren’t really built for anyone outside of the U.S. Any advice you would give to entrepreneurs and business owners? As an entrepreneur the D.C.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

At home we have entrepreneurs who think global day one. The Dutch ‘invented’ the limited liability corporation with the inception of the Dutch East India Company. Beyond us claiming the first IPO ever, the Dutch could potentially claim (with a fair bit of imagination) history’s first ‘Super Angel.’

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2022

I found some good lessons in this regard in a classic book, “ Becoming Facebook ,” by Mike Hoefflinger, the former Head of Global Business Marketing at Facebook. For others, including Facebook, it is penetrating China despite political constraints, and India, where only thirty percent of the population is on the Internet.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

On July 27th, 2001 Accenture IPO’s and many of the partners grew fabulously wealthy. Accenture opened massive operations in India & China and continued its industry dominance. Bryce is a bit like the entrepreneurs I search for. Arthur Andersen was embroiled in the Enron scandal and forced out of business. I love that.

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 10, 2011

In May 1996, Open Market completed a successful IPO and more than doubled on the first day of trading, ending with a $1.2 The Internet bull market continued to run for four more years after the Open Market IPO, finally ending in the spring of 2000. This IPO and others like it (e.g., billion market capitalization.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2019

I found some good lessons in this regard in a classic book, “ Becoming Facebook ,” by Mike Hoefflinger, the former Head of Global Business Marketing at Facebook. For others, including Facebook, it is penetrating China despite political constraints, and India, where only thirty percent of the population is on the Internet.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2017

I found some good lessons in this regard in a new book, “ Becoming Facebook ,” by Mike Hoefflinger, the former Head of Global Business Marketing at Facebook. For others, including Facebook, it is penetrating China despite political constraints, and India, where only thirty percent of the population is on the Internet.

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

I had the good fortune to moderate a panel at last week''s IBA Silicon Valley from Start-up to IPO / Exit Conference. 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.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Andreessen Horowitz is telling entrepreneurs it prefers situations where the founders have controlling stakes, reckoning that theyll be better able to resist outside distraction and focus on making great products. and Groupon Inc., —has naturally won support from entrepreneurs. Welcome, Logout. Customer Center. My Journal.

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Sarah also points to the vast global wealth that has to get allocated somewhere as well as a small bump in long term average returns, now that the generally terrible performance of funds from the 2000-2002 time frame (after the tech bubble of the late 90s crashed) no longer factor in to 10 year returns.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 11, 2011

In many of these cases, the funds or the accelerators want to put in $100,000 to $500,000 in select ventures but are having a hard time finding mature entrepreneurs to support. Announce one or two $100,000 prizes that only those entrepreneurs who have gone through and completed at least 60 hours of 1M/1M curriculum would be eligible for.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. Failure often is harder on entrepreneurs who lose money that theyve borrowed on credit cards or from friends and relatives than it is on those who raised venture capital. View All Search Results » Subscribe. América Latina.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Decades ago, the thesis of Yossi Vardi , a prolific technology entrepreneur who has invested in 75 Israeli startups, was that Israeli entrepreneurs should seek quick exit opportunities through global corporations interested in buying a window into Israeli talent and technology. Today, this thesis is less relevant.

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Up and Running

JUNE 13, 2015

During the webinar, Jeff highlighted the results of his many hours of reading, and personal interviews with some of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs. As a writer, as an entrepreneur, as a marketer, I get all of that. Then he goes to India, and he gets exposed to a whole different world. What does that mean?

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Save Asia for post-IPO Single instance, multi-tenant, single datacenter - Have only one version of the code in production. ” Gary Messiana, Bessemer Entrepreneur-In-Residence and former CEO, Netli. Save Asia for post-IPO. Almost all businesses will look to go global at some point if they continue to grow.

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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. Imagine that.

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Seeing Both Sides

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Yet, we make it very difficult for immigrant entrepreneurs to pursue their dreams and build their companies in America. To address this, Senators Kerry and Lugar proposed a Start Up Visa in March 2011, providing “Entrepreneur’s visas” for immigrant entrepreneurs. Policies: Achieve Long-Term Success.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

For life sciences it was the Genentech IPO in 1980 that proved to investors that life science startups could make them a ton of money. Risk capital has emerged in China, India and other countries where risk taking, innovation and liquidity are encouraged, on a scale previously only seen in the U.S. or Euro-centric phenomenon.

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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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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

A group of Seedcamp entrepreneurs started a startup tools wiki for that purpose, and we thought it would be well suited here. List of Angel/SuperAngel Investors for entrepreneurs. Walker Law:Â Tips for Entrepreneurs. VC Cafe knows that as an entrepreneur you need all the help you can get. Legal Wiki â?? great basics.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 19, 2020

“Because COVID is shaking our habits and beliefs it opens the door to discussion to whether we should change our whole system,” says veteran investor Sir Ronald Cohen, chairman of the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment and the man known as “the father of British venture capital” .

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Essentially, we got here by entrepreneurs having too much of a good thing. And because capital requirements are lower, entrepreneurs are holding onto more ownership, making it a lot easier to flip your company for less than, say, $30 million and become very rich. More cash equals more entrepreneurs who get to start companies.

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