The Next Web

JANUARY 14, 2014

The company collected salary data from 11,160 startups around the world that use its benchmarking tool. Average salaries around the world vary from a low of $30,208 in India to a high of $72,363 in Australia. Average salaries around the world vary from a low of $30,208 in India to a high of $72,363 in Australia.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 9, 2019

We asked some entrepreneurs and business owners, why they started their businesses: #1- Need for a better renovation. I couldn’t fulfill my wish if I took a regular job, however money I might earn as salary. In 2008, I became an entrepreneur. Each story is different though the reasons may be the same. Photo Credit: Dan Meyer.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

—– UP Fund is a rolling venture fund launched in Q4 2020, and part of global SaaS accelerator Upekkha, based in India. Upekkha works with SaaS founders of Indian origin that use the India advantage for creating capital efficient growth. More on Reformation and their insights can be found on their Medium blog.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

Two weeks after Brad’s post I was at the 140 Conference in LA and I held open office hours for any entrepreneur who wanted to spend 15 minutes talking with a VC about their business. But it turns out I met a bunch of really interesting entrepreneurs. But TWTFelipe is an entrepreneur. Irony, hey?). Her response?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2010

Since my background includes software development, I often get the question about when to build a solution in-house, versus outsourcing it to a local company, near-shore service, or off-shore organization in China, India, or Eastern Europe. Overall, I believe that the demise of software entrepreneurs has been greatly exaggerated.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 10, 2010

Who is an entrepreneur really? It turns out that there are four distinct types of entrepreneurial organizations; s mall businesses , scalable startups , large companies and social entrepreneurs. Yet entrepreneurs in one class think that the others aren’t the “real” entrepreneurs. They all engage in entrepreneurship.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Even in seventh grade in my native India, ambition boiled in me. But admission to medical school in India is highly competitive and I missed the cutoff criteria by one-tenth of a point. Selling is a pivotal skill most entrepreneurs must have. Be bold and flexible. So, I transferred to an English school.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 19, 2014

From a summit on media in the Middle East to a huge new funding opportunity for aspiring entrepreneurs in Nigeria, here are fascinating business news stories from the U.S. By 2013, just 11 percent of salaried workers qualified for overtime pay, according to a report published by the Economic Policy Institute.”. and around the world.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

My mom was an entrepreneur – she was kind of my inspiration for entrepreneurship. By the way, the salary, which was a good salary, was $27,000 entry salary, and engineers were paid $31,000 to $35,000. [00:10:30] Then everyone just started calling me a serial entrepreneur. My mom grew up in the States.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

I was paid less in salary in 2004 than I was paid at the job I quit in 1999 (a job I had held 8+ years). I learned how to establish a technology center in India and how to manage disparate development teams (and this has drive my thoughts also about what does NOT work.). million, then $5.9m, $7.7m

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

We asked some entrepreneurs and business owners, why they started their businesses: #1 – I Have a Dream. Something similar happened during a salary negotiation seminar years later. I was the first social entrepreneur in the coffee world. Each story is different though the reasons may be the same. 22 – To Help People.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

I made them a pretty good offer – hire me as a training instructor at the salary they were going to pay me as a lab technician. But over the years I realized his comment was actually an astute observation about the mental mindset of an entrepreneur, and therein lies the purpose of this post. I wore it as a badge of honor.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

couldn’t draw a salary). The latter was fine by me since there was no money in the company for me to draw a salary any way. ” The options were to either go back home to New Delhi, India, or, risk getting myself into an immigration nightmare. Besides I was a young, first-time entrepreneur at the age of 23.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

Being in love with your business, when you’re an entrepreneur, is even better. Although there are days when tossing in your hat seems like a viable option, remembering how much you love your “job” can quickly snap an entrepreneur out of that mentality. We asked some entrepreneurs what they loved about “being their own boss.”. #1-Pushing

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

AUGUST 2, 2011

Working through elance.com , we hired a freelancer in India and spent only a couple hundred dollars. In the first month, our new website earned over $30,000 , which was more than enough to pay our staff salaries. In fact, almost 43% of small businesses do not have a website, according to Entrepreneur Magazine.

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Social Media Mobile India Government 96

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

Ownership and management were one and the same – the owners managed, and there were no salaried middle managers or administrators. By the 1950’s Shumpeter observed that in-house R&D had replaced the inventor-entrepreneur. This shift from general merchants to specialists was the first structural shift in American commerce.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 28, 2016

Entrepreneurs see opportunity where others see obstacles and why hubris is an entrepreneur’s worst enemy, were two topics of discussion on my SiriusXM radio show, Entrepreneurs are Everywhere. When you’re an entrepreneur, yeah, there’s 100 gaps. Ajay Kshatriya. Joining me in the Stanford University studio were.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 28, 2016

Entrepreneurs see opportunity where others see obstacles and why hubris is an entrepreneur’s worst enemy, were two topics of discussion on my SiriusXM radio show, Entrepreneurs are Everywhere. When you’re an entrepreneur, yeah, there’s 100 gaps. Ajay Kshatriya. Joining me in the Stanford University studio were.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

For this week's One Million by One Million roundtable, we discussed an important topic that many entrepreneurs are facing. In general, a key point that I encourage entrepreneurs to consider is whether or not you are building a cash business or an exit business. Do you really want to give shares if you are building a cash business?

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 4, 2011

How long can you go without a salary? Please note, that I work exclusively with 1M/1M entrepreneurs. 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.

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Up and Running

JULY 23, 2018

A few years back, I was working as a business consultant for a venture located in a small city in India. Irrespective of all the advice you receive from fellow entrepreneurs about being practical and not getting emotionally attached, you do anyway. And that’s the story of the majority of entrepreneurs I work with.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2009

But entrepreneurs can be great spouses and parents. When the kids got older our adventures took us to Mexico, Ecuador , India, Africa and Europe. As a single entrepreneur I had a philosophy of, “ I live to work ” – nothing was more exciting or important than my job. Alaska , Wyoming , Colorado , Washington , Oregon, Maine.)

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 2, 2018

We knew that entrepreneurs have the best playlists and we decided to ask them their favourite tracks. #1- Being an entrepreneur involves so many highs, lows, fears and lots of self-doubts. India Arie is a Grammy award singer with many songs. What entrepreneur can’t relate to “From the absence of sleep I try to lay down…”?

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Hearpreneur

JULY 19, 2017

Having flexibility and the opportunity for infinite success as an entrepreneur is priceless. I was unable to cover my basic monthly expenses with my salary and was running a deficit each month until I started earning money on the side. Thanks to April Smith, Social Ape Marketing. #5- 5- A good fit in my future life.

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thinkspace.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Are there other tools that you’ve used that you think would be helpful to share with other entrepreneurs and founders? Along the way, I was hired full time (I believe about 8 months after I started), a coder from India was hired and another contractor was added to the team. The salary offered (and accepted) was quite low.

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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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Up and Running

MAY 16, 2016

With a low barrier to entry and a growing demand, it is an appealing business for eager entrepreneurs. This is based on advancements in health care infrastructure in India and China, as well as a rapidly aging Japanese population. Additional market research resources include: Practical Market Research Resources for Entrepreneurs.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

We love a good entrepreneurial success story – entrepreneur as protagonist overcomes obstacles and builds a thriving, successful company (and become wealthy while doing so). created a vastly higher cost structure; I had 80 people mostly on base salaries under $100,000 and was bringing in revenue at the rate of $20 million annually.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Many local entrepreneurs complain about the local talent here in Singapore , but honestly what did they expect? These individual countries simply don’t have enough depth and although China and India have seemingly large pools, you should only skim from the top in those countries. Asia Entrepreneur Insider evergreen How-To''s'

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

One of the entrepreneurs presented a business idea that sounded like a business-to-consumer concept, but as I peeled the onion, it turned out that the business was really a business-to-business concept. Here I had an entrepreneur telling me with a straight face that he was leaving the most basic business decisions for the investors to make.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

The aim of many entrepreneurs is to take a business idea and convert it into a professional and functioning business on a low budget. Practically this means that you’ll outsource (most likely off-shore) your design and development, you’ll rent your servers, you won’t have an office and you’ll have no salary.

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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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The Next Web

AUGUST 30, 2013

The inspiration for my second post came from the many CEOs and entrepreneurs who come to me knowing they want to go after Asia and are aware of their target markets, but unsure of the best approach to start building out their operations on the ground. Asia Entrepreneur Analysis and Opinion' You also need true local expertise.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MAY 16, 2010

This is only true if you reside in a country with a strong currency and comparably high average salary, like the USA, Canada, Australia or countries in the European Union. So how can outsourcing overseas, when the pay rate seems so terribly small compared to the amount of time put in by the worker, be considered fair?

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

If you’re an Entrepreneur, you can do it from any place in the world. Near shoring development with your team (ex: your team is based in Canada / India) is cool, but not outsourcing. How important is education when I know I want to be an entrepreneur? If you’re a young entrepreneur, than congrats! Just start today, cool?

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

It is the first in a series of posts he’s writing about the decisions a young entrepreneur needs to make when she/he is first starting a business. One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. Unless that person is … you?

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Altgate

MARCH 16, 2009

 So for the past few weeks I've been talking to venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, CEOs and other industry participants in these countries and learning a ton about the local startup ecosystems.  Some of the more interesting things I've learned include: Salaries in Israel are described monthly.

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