Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 30, 2020

We asked some entrepreneurs and business owners, why they started their businesses: #1- From personal experience. I realized that this was an opportunity to solve a huge problem for an entire generation of parents and their kids using technology. Thanks to Jen Ohlson, Interactive Health Technologies ! #5-

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 29, 2014

Subtitled Lessons for Global Corporations , the book embraces cross-cultural storytelling in its approach. Akiko Ito – a Japanese social entrepreneur who left her family in Japan to travel the world, was driven to contribute to charitable causes by founding a global NGO, and who adopted a “life is a game” philosophy.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

From Silicon Valley to Silicon Alley, and Berlin’s hip coffee shops to East London’s Silicon Roundabout , the world is well versed in the global innovation boom towns. Dubbed by Forbes as the most inventive city in the world due to its “patent intensity”, Eindhoven is a hotbed for hardware design and high-tech innovation.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 21, 2021

We asked some entrepreneurs and business owners, why they started their businesses: #1- To do it for myself. I did a lot of technical interviewing. 2- To help entrepreneurs become financially independent. We noticed a clear need for an evolution of wallet styles and technologies and ran with it. I led projects.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Narayana Murthy pulled a Michael Dell when he called time on his two-year-long retired life and retook charge at Infosys, the Indian information technology (IT) giant he had founded three decades ago in a small apartment with six others. Infosys would now be a technology solutions provider. Enter India. In June this year, N.R.

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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? Key Insights. 38 unicorns, or 1 in 4 (24%), have at least one MBA founder. 63 MBA founders are represented among the 157 unicorns.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 24, 2020

Every waking day, we are having tremendous changes in regulations and technology which greatly affects the way businesses operate. Some entrepreneurs will say the future is definitely bright and the number of entrepreneurs will increase but others argue these changes are meant to work against budding or would-be entrepreneurs.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

Slowly but surely, however, we have a quietly emerging ‘ecosystem’ (as it is often called in tech lingo). So is the Dutch tech startup story sold short? But hedonistic pleasures aside, The Netherlands actually has a great foundation for tech entrepreneurship. At home we have entrepreneurs who think global day one.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 1, 2011

1M/1M will be working with Microsoft in helping entrepreneurs prepare for these grants. I will be traveling in India in April, and doing live roundtables in three cities: Chennai (April 9) , Mumbai (April 16) , and Pune (April 17). product reviews through blogs, as well as SEO, blogs, and social media marketing. 3gSimplified.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 2, 2020

We asked some entrepreneurs and business owners, why they started their businesses: #1- Replicate what I was doing for others. We saw that many food entrepreneurs had these same problems. My co founder Jonathan Hill realised how important good food was due to his father passing away from eating poorly. 9- Desire to go global.

Entrepreneur 147

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

He couldn’t have imagined power users would be global political figures, dictatorships, small factions of people standing up to the Iranian army or every sports figure & celebrity in the world. Periodically we do portfolio reviews to evaluate whether we have enough diversified risk across the fund. Lots of it. 6SensorLabs.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 23, 2020

In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Ramon Ray, keynote speaker, event host, best selling author, and entrepreneur. Ramon is the founder of Smart Hustle Media and is an in-demand commentator on marketing, technology, mindset, startups and more. Ramon Ray’s journey as an entrepreneur.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

It is particularly satisfying for me to work with these entrepreneurs because I have long believed that India needs to diversify out of pure labor arbitrage. Other discussions on India's need for product companies have also been equally controversial. Meanwhile, outsourcing itself is absolutely booming.

Entrepreneur 118

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 19, 2011

During today's roundtable, we opened the session with a discussion of the existential crisis in media and how talented bloggers and journalists are facing a tough time sustaining themselves due to lack of business models. The hosts were Girish Joshi of Microsoft India and 1M/1M Ambassadors, Praveen Karoshi, Rajesh Nair and Thejas Gupta.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 23, 2011

We have done almost 90 roundtables so far and, based on this extensive experience of learning directly from entrepreneurs about their core issues, 1M/1M has just launched a new assessment tool for entrepreneurs. Anupam Rajey from Lucknow, India, presented Acelerar Technologies , an outsourced accounting services BPO project from India.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

But, you can be sure that as an entrepreneur, each day will be loaded with new possibilities to challenge yourself, be innovative, and learn something new. If manufacturers can increase productivity , they can produce more without increasing costs, then they are more globally competitive. #7- I could push myself.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Sramana Mitra is the founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative, an educational, business development and incubation program that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

With men and women increasingly investing in beauty services to get their groove on in today’s globalized world of style and luxury, a beauty on demand app would terminate the one thing people cannot afford despite needing the next-gen trendy haircut – TIME. The stylist review serves as an internal archive that signals the quality of demand.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Today, at the roundtable, we had a discussion around the topic, especially in the context of specific geographies that were represented at the session: Dublin, Ireland, and Kolkata, India. Today, building Internet businesses, or businesses that are primarily marketed through the Internet, is viable for entrepreneurs all over the world.

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Silicon Valley Ireland India Entrepreneur 124

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.

India 126

India Technical Review Entrepreneur Silicon Valley 126

Hearpreneur

JULY 10, 2017

We asked some entrepreneurs and business owners, why they started their businesses: #1 – Personal Quest. I’m originally from New Delhi, India and have lived in the US for 10+ years now. My professional experience is in the area of delivering technology solutions for major movie studios. Image Credit: Serena Pau.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

At today's roundtable, we had entrepreneurs presenting from Brazil, Israel and India. In fact, I was pleased to even see an entrepreneur from Kolkata, India, the city in which I was born and raised. Estate Lister. ServiceSutra. All in all, a very promising venture. You can register to attend here.

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Brazil India Entrepreneur 115

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

An entrepreneur should pick this one up ASAP. Charge-back accounting solution for large enterprises deploying cloud technologies. This is an open opportunity for an entrepreneur to build a custom solution. Rajeev wants to build a BPO firm in a place called Bolpur in West Bengal, India.

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thebarefootvc

JUNE 15, 2014

Since I wrote that post, millions more entrepreneurs have launched their businesses globally. Thanks to the Web and mobile connectivity, more and more people have access to online resources for education and information – the combination of on-the-ground expertise and this access to global information is creating a revolution.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

I overviewed demographic and economic trends globally and outlined the opportunity for technology companies to access growth in the emerging markets. Many investors and entrepreneurs in the US still have a US-centric view of the world. There’s another post on immigration reform in the US here but I won’t digress.

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India North America Ukraine Silicon Valley 107

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 17, 2011

Over the years, we've had entrepreneurs from all over the world attend and pitch, and I'm delighted to see that we're propagating the methodology and the platform far and wide. With that, let's look at the two entrepreneurs who pitched today from Costa Rica. Adarsh Patil from Bangalore, India, presented ResortHunt. ResortHunt.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 17, 2017

My blog has always been a mixture of what was on my mind and a blend of venture, startup life, tech views and current society events that related to my interests: Venture, startup & tech. Our most famous current rocket entrepreneur — Elon Musk — was from South Africa. And what of our most revered tech founder — Steve Jobs?

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

This was the year that the promise of technology to truly change the world and empower individuals (the reason I entered the tech world in 1994) reached global scale. As of year-end, Foursquare had over 15 million users, with an exponential growth rate globally. The era of the patriarch is nearing an end.

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Technical Review India Mobile Hockey Stick 110

thebarefootvc

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

This past May, Modi was elected Prime Minister of India in a historic election. Today, he gave a speech to a crowd of 20,000 at Madision Square Garden, outlining steps he is taking to cut bureaucratic red tape and encourage the Indian diaspora to invest back into India. This hustle is familiar to entrepreneurs worldwide.

India 85

India China Technical Review Africa 85

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Accenture opened massive operations in India & China and continued its industry dominance. Investment in training, adherence to process, global knowledge sharing systems, quality control / partner reviews and campus recruitment programs that attracted the right talent. Bryce is a bit like the entrepreneurs I search for.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

I know that many, many entrepreneurs are feeling dejected because of investor rejections. From what I have seen, this is one of the few companies that can cross the elusive billion dollar mark in due course. Please note that I work exclusively with 1M/1M entrepreneurs. Statisco Economic Analytics. Discuss.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 10, 2020

We held a workshop of stakeholders and explored names inspired by a variety of approaches (provenance, roots of our technology, etc). Freeze drying is an incredible technology that leaves fruits nutritionally as intact as when they were ripe. I am originally from India but have been away from the country for almost 16 years.

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Naming Artificial Inteligence Kansas Entrepreneur 99

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Taariq Lewis, the founder of Voluble, is a 1M/1M premium entrepreneur. We invited entrepreneurs considering joining the 1M/1M premium program to the Stanzr chat room and did a one-hour Q&A session. Please note that I work exclusively with 1M/1M entrepreneurs. We thought it was very cool! I thought that was brilliant.

Entrepreneur 116

Entrepreneur San Francisco Technical Review New Jersey 116

Austin Startup

JULY 14, 2017

Today, Silicon Valley took the Great Equalizer and established a system of inequality where only white male faces are prominently displayed in “tech media”, VC firms exclude African-Americans and sexually harass women tech entrepreneurs and we also see Silicon Valley firms talking up some “lack of pipeline” bullcrap.

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Silicon Valley Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Africa 48

thebarefootvc

JANUARY 27, 2014

I think that later stage valuations are frothy (for reasons I explain below) while earlier stage valuations are starting to stabilize from previous highs (with the exception of the superstar serial entrepreneur) - turns out scaling in a sea of competition (both startup and entrenched) is not so easy. Technology ubiquity.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

At today's roundtable, we had three niche e-commerce entrepreneurs and two e-commerce infrastructure entrepreneurs. Then Dhana Cohen pitched TheNextBigZing.com where she has collected various merchants with video reviews of products. Good news: Indrajit is a solo entrepreneur, so he doesn't have a large overhead to support.

India 114

India Silicon Valley Incubator Bootstrapping 114

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 13, 2011

While on this topic, I want to particularly emphasize the social media advertising trend, and my observation that the infrastructure to measure, analyze, optimize, and target is really wide open, and I'd like to hear from entrepreneurs working on the various nuances of that particular problem. Next, we had two very interesting entrepreneurs.

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