The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2021

The largest ones are Alibaba, Global Sources, DHgate, EC21, Tradekey, Asia Trade Hub, and go4WorldBusiness. Global Sources, once listed in Bermuda and now owned by the private equity giant Blackstone, has been active in Hong Kong since the 1970s and focuses on trade in and out of the former British colony.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 29, 2010

The Internet might be truly global then, but the world of startups still revolves much around Silicon Valley. Unsurprisingly, this seems to weed out the less passionate people, while encouraging others to put in sweat equity in their own ideas. This is something I feel we Europeans aren’t very good at. we don’t).

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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? VI: Revenue-based financing: The next step for private equity and early-stage investment. VIII: The Leading Flexible VCs, With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 12, 2013

It’s part three of a series, cross-posted from his own blog , in which he draws on his experience to offer advice for aspiring entrepreneurs in Europe and beyond. If you ask me, that’s exactly what Berlin (and Europe) needs – ambitious, creative and successful billion-dollar businesses. When it comes to equity, be fair.

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 19, 2012

As you can see from the charts below, it turns out that the level of venture activity in Europe is increasing slightly, particularly on the side of funds raised by VCs to invest into startups. The US is growing more strongly, and activity over here is still only a fraction of what it is over there, even though our economy is bigger.

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techcrunch.com

AUGUST 12, 2012

” Data Collective prides itself on its deeply technical core team, and the Big Data chops of its extended group of 35 equity partners, who, while Data Collective wouldn’t reveal specific names, all work or have worked at companies like Akmai, Zynga, LinkedIn, Apple, Facebook, Salesforce, Twitter, IBM, Citrix, Airbnb and VMware.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2018

During this discovery stage, entrepreneurs get to hone their business skills via training and support while typically no equity is taken from them. To improve your chance of getting recruited, here are four of the best websites to apply for these elusive programs globally. Europe, Asia and South America.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 1, 2022

As Brennan and Aaron wrote in the announcement …“T his new round of funding brings us one step closer to our goal of radically scaling unified climate action across the global economy.”. The new equity round will fuel additional growth and provide capital for further acquisitions. Read about it here. .

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thebarefootvc

MARCH 4, 2022

The unspeakable violence and aggression that Russia has unleashed against Ukraine and its people is the first all out “hot war” invasion in Europe since WWII. Fallout is being felt across the global economy, roiling markets and causing many investors to seek relative shelter amidst the volatility.

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David Teten

JULY 14, 2014

Technology innovation, globalization of markets, and recent market volatility such as the 2008 market collapse are driving painful changes (for some) in the asset management industry. What that means is that a traditional 80% / 20% equity bond portfolio is set to lose a lot more money in a crisis than most investors are comfortable with.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 12, 2010

4) Cash balance increase indicates a focus on M&A to drive further growth The past few months have also been marked by a few high profile equity and debt announcements - most notably SuccessFactors, Taleo and Saleforce.com. Europe Consumer. (1). In search of Europe's next tech stars. Global Warning! anecdotes. (13).

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The Equity Kicker

OCTOBER 21, 2016

There’s a lot more data contained within, but my read from these is that VC investment is down significantly since the highs we saw in 2015, but is now holding steady at it’s new level, both globally and in the UK. Only one new unicorn has been created in Europe this year (11 in the US).

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Speakers: - Bob Dahl, HBS Alumni Angel, formerly head of Global Healthcare for the Carlyle Group. Balloch’s 20+ year career prior to becoming an angel investor was in financial services both in the private equity world- fundraising and investor relations, and in investment banking. Click here to make a reservation.

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The Equity Kicker

DECEMBER 6, 2013

In our experience Europe valuations remain more muted, although they have also been increasing (if anyone has good data I’d love to see it). If prices go up again at the same rate for another year or two then I will revise my opinion, but I don’t think we are there yet.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The top 20 tech billionaires globally have lost $480 billion on paper in the past year. This is largely due to several major stock market crashes and global economic uncertainties. Europe faced a similar fate and funding for the third quarter in Europe totalled $16 billion, down 44% year over year from $28 billion.

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The Equity Kicker

DECEMBER 3, 2014

Moreover, the percentage of people who are migrants has held steady since 1960 at around 3% of the global population – now about 232m people. The current anti-immigrant and anti-Europe rhetoric is both wrong and damaging. per year – a drop of around 1m. Startup general interest'

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Growthink Blog

MARCH 25, 2013

Crowdfunding, private equity and debt secondary markets like Second Market and SharesPost, peer-to-peer lending sites like Prosper.com and Lending Club, and the Big Three social networking giants - Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter - have made information and intelligence on, and access to opportunities better and greater than ever before.

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The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

New data out from eCommerce Europe shows the picture hasn’t changed and that there’s still a lot of growth to come: in 2013 the UK spent $142bn on eCommerce, third in the world on a gross spend basis behind the USA and China which have much larger populations. Germany has a population of 81m and the UK has 64m people.

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 17, 2016

Venture investment has been pretty steady for nine months now in both Europe and the US, albeit with a lot of month to month volatility, but there are fears that the 2015 slowdown could precipitate a full on crash, that public market woes might transfer to the private markets, and now that our exit from Europe will hurt our ecosystem.

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The Equity Kicker

DECEMBER 2, 2013

This change will bring profound shifts in global politics and trade rules. That’s inevitable given that China and India have very different ideas to the USA and Europe about what constitutes ‘fair’ trade. By 2060 they predict the Eurozone will be the fourth largest economy in the world after China, India and the USA.

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The Equity Kicker

DECEMBER 12, 2012

Closer to home the European Parliament has just created a unified European Patent scheme which will dramatically reduce the costs for businesses seeking to protect their inventions across Europe. Ultimately patents are a global issue and I hope that the US is able to fix its patent problem and that the solutions are then copied over here.

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The Next Web

MARCH 3, 2016

At the moment of writing, Seed-DB, a global database of seed stage accelerators, listed 235 programs (both active and defunct) that 5,688 startups had gone through. Some of the programs take equity in exchange for a seed round, some are free for participants, others work anywhere in between those two models.

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The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 30, 2013

In response to probes from the Office of Fair Trading in the UK and the Federal Cartel Office in Germany Amazon has dropped its price parity policy in Europe which stipulated that Amazon Marketplace vendors couldn’t offer the same goods on different websites at lower prices. That’s great to see.

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The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

BP recently released a report showing that global solar generating capacity grew 73.3% The best recent example is mobile phone penetration where analysts have been scrambling to increase their estimates of device sales has penetration has accelerated towards 100% on a global basis. in 2011, and at 63.4 There are of course some caveats.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 22, 2009

If you assume a 20% cost of capital (typical for equity, debt is generally cheaper), then getting an upfront payment for one additional year on a $10k MRR contract saves you $24k. Europe Consumer. (1). In search of Europe's next tech stars. Global warming: a plague for humanity? Global Warning! My Investments.

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The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 27, 2016

That got me thinking, so I took a look at corporate R&D spend and it turns out that 2014 spend in the US was over $250bn and in Europe it was over $200bn. That compares with $86.7bn in global venture capital investment in the same year. The excess cash from Apple from 2006-2015 was greater than US VC funding in total.

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The Equity Kicker

MARCH 26, 2012

The good news is that we are doing better and better at this in Europe. We now have a small but growing list of large public tech businesses in Europe, including ARM, CSR, Abcam, Betfair and QliqTech. We still have some way to go though.

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The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 7, 2016

Instinctive distrust of immigrants is a good example of a pernicious unconscious bias that’s currently causing all sorts of problems across Europe. What’s worse is that globalisation is making our unconscious biases more dangerous.

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Transformify

JULY 17, 2019

Our guest today is Valerie Lopez, Vice President of Global Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) at Cision , leading global provider of earned media software and services. Asia is amazing but the culture is completely different if compared to the US and Europe. How do you address such cases?

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The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 16, 2013

If the last ten years was about establishing myself as an investor I hope the next ten years is about establishing London and Europe as sustainable startup hubs that compete effectively on a global basis. That’s enough seriousness for a decade of birthdays so I’ll sign of now.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 3, 2024

.” Martin Gonzalez is the creator of Google’s Effective Founders Project, a global research program that decodes the factors that enable startup founders to succeed. Martin is a frequent lecturer at Stanford, Wharton and INSEAD, and has advised leaders across the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia. This is John Jantsch.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 18, 2014

Those teams are among 50 globally participating in the Founder.org program’s second-year class. Nobody wanted equity in startup. We work with leading colleges, universities and research institutes throughout North America and Europe to advance student entrepreneurship. The first-year class, 10 student teams, just graduated.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 15, 2024

The Unicorn’s struggle is a global phenomenon There are a total of 1,224 unicorns globally, with a combined valuation of $3.7 Spotlight on Israeli unicorns in 2024 Israel is home to 131 unicorns, over 10% of the global total. trillion, according to CB Insights.

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Cracking the Code

JULY 5, 2016

Lessons from Acqui-Hire Success Stories The best example of launching and expanding in new countries via acqui-hire can be found in Paris-based BlaBlaCar, Europe's top ride-sharing company with 16 offices worldwide. Most of the consideration for these deals was equity and options, so cash is not a requirement.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

And then from there, I was running a fitness company on the west coast by the name of 24 Hour Fitness, which was private equity backed and quite a bit of debt. We have companies now who have every store, globally or in a whole country, shuttered. Their offices are shuttered, all these facilities are shuttered.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Pitchbook Data released a new report on the state of Private Capital in Israel 2020 , covering private equity and venture capital. The analysts believe that longer-term trends such as cross-border expansion for Israeli startups scaling into Europe or the US may slow as economies dip. VC Deal Activity in Israel (Source: Picthbook ).

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

Instead, the global pandemic has turned 2020 into its most harrowing year. 10:44) The moment the company went below 1x growth for the first time since it was founded as the pandemic hit China and then Europe. (11:50) You become a global company. First the news out of China, then Europe, then here in the U.S.

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