ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 29, 2010

The Internet might be truly global then, but the world of startups still revolves much around Silicon Valley. Together with 40 Nordic entrepreneurs , we decided to take a trip to the startup mecca, looking for opportunities and lessons to learn. Startups are keen on business development and will seek partnerships.

Silicon Valley 156

Silicon Valley Finland Sweat Equity Entrepreneur 156

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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B2B Saudi Arabia Global United Kingdom 124

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2018

This is why it is especially important for startup founders to seek help to guide them through the tedious and often perilous process of starting and growing a company. In recent years, startup accelerators and startup incubators have become the place of choice for any budding entrepreneurs to be the next unicorn.

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Incubator South America San Francisco Chile 127

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.

Equity 78

Equity Revenue Cofounder Colorado 78

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.

Europe 119

Europe Venture Capital China Hosting 119

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.

Portfolio 60

Portfolio Phoenix Portland Europe 60

The Equity Kicker

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Venturebeat reported yesterday that US startup valuations have reached ten year highs. 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).

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Valuation Venture Capital Startup Europe 162

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.

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Startup Cofounder Technical Review Founder 59

The Equity Kicker

DECEMBER 3, 2014

Recruiting great staff is the biggest challenge for many startups. 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. Startup general interest'

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Greece Spain Europe .Net 114

David Teten

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Speakers: - Bob Dahl, HBS Alumni Angel, formerly head of Global Healthcare for the Carlyle Group. Karen Bantuveris, CEO of VolunteerSpot ( ff VC and angel-backed startup with 2.5m How to build a portfolio of startup investments. What to do when your portfolio startup pivots. Click here to make a reservation.

Private Equity 114

Private Equity North America Cofounder Angel Groups 114

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. It’s a tough time for a lot of startup founders right now. It’s a tough time for a lot of startup founders right now.

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Founder Technical Review Down Round Liquidation Preference 173

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 18, 2014

Most people never get to launch a successful startup, much less six. Instead of launching another startup, however, he’s launching entrepreneurs. Today Baum heads up a non-profit called Founder.org , where he’s applying the lessons he learned from his own startups to help student entrepreneurs launch their companies.

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Founder Entrepreneur North America Startup 60

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.

Europe 60

Europe Venture Capital Ukraine Russia 60

The Equity Kicker

DECEMBER 12, 2012

Secondly, Reuters reports that 61% of US patent lawsuits filed in the first eleven months of 2012 were filed by patent trolls, and thirdly 20% of startups that have raised $20-50m and 35% of startups that have raised $50-100m have been sued on a patent. This is nuts.

Europe 124

Europe Global Cost Startup 124

The Next Web

MARCH 3, 2016

It’s hard to get the exact data on how many startup acceleration programs are being launched every year, but it’s definitely a lot. If you search Google News for something like “new startup accelerator,” it will return hundreds of headlines from all over the world. Keeping in mind these… This story continues at The Next Web.

Finland 60

Finland Estonia Chile Ukraine 60

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. Startup general interest Venture Capital' The USA will have fallen from first place to third.

India 88

India China Venture Capital Forecast 88

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.

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Venture Capital Entrepreneur Europe .Net 60

The Equity Kicker

MARCH 26, 2012

For a while now I’ve been saying that large indigenous tech companies are a vital component of a healthy startup ecosystem. Large companies are important sources of entrepreneurs, executives that can help startups grow, partnerships, and exits and all these functions come from human relationships and work better locally.

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IPO Europe Acquisition Venture Capital 100

The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

BP recently released a report showing that global solar generating capacity grew 73.3% Additionally, as any startup CEO or investor knows, high percentage growth rates come more easily when the numbers are small, and solar power is still in its infancy, at around 0.5% in 2011, and at 63.4 of total capacity in 2011.

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Harvest Forecast Europe Global 117

The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 16, 2013

A thriving startup ecosystem can, and should, be a big contributor to the overall economy, particularly to growth and high value job creation. We are no longer birthing the startup ecosystem here, but we are maybe guiding it through adolescence, and we have a key role to play in determining what sort of adult it becomes.

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Europe Global Management Startup 112

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.

Europe 60

Europe Global Cost Technology 60

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind. 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind. Written By Dan Martell on February 2nd, 2012 | Category: Hiring LeanStartup Marketing Metrics Startup Life | 6 Comments. I love startups. Here’s my high-level approach for startups. No, I have many ideas.

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Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

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. But the reckoning is coming one way or another.

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IPO Valuation Private Equity 88

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. So now I'm home-based in Austin, Texas and I'm spending a lot of time with a lot of startups and a lot of CEOs that are trying to scale their companies. And it's just beautiful.

Technical Review 148

Technical Review Balance Sheet Texas Austin 148

Cracking the Code

JULY 5, 2016

Most startups fail at getting a new country off the ground. 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. This is why Unicorns are such a rare breed.

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Italy Technical Review Germany Poland 59

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. Israel based startups raised $4.1 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.

Private Equity 186

Private Equity Venture Capital Europe 186

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.

Silicon Valley 60

Silicon Valley Hosting Cofounder Employee 60

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

New York venture capitalists like HOF Capital recognize this trend, and more and more of us are opening our doors to invest in startups with international roots. Entrepreneurs have created such Meetups as the NY Latino Tech Meetup and Japan NYC Startups. They burnt their ships behind them. Easier to scale internationally.

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New York City Cofounder New York Startup 60

The Equity Kicker

MAY 23, 2012

As I’ve blogged many times before, large indigenous tech companies are a critical part of any startup ecosystem, and we need more of them here.

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Global Europe Technology Startup 118

VC Cafe

JUNE 13, 2012

The UK has everything it needs to build great startups. That said, talent, money and ideas, the trinity of startup success, are all present in the UK. London has the largest venture capital and private equity industries in Europe. London has the largest venture capital and private equity industries in Europe.

Silicon Valley 99

Silicon Valley Europe Venture Capital 99

David Teten

JUNE 12, 2014

HBS Alumni Angels is a global angel group, given our chapters in 15 cities. Because of that, we have been judges or speakers at programs in New York geared to investors and startups from Brazil, Canada, Finland, France, Eastern Europe, Germany, Holland, Israel, Italy, the Maghreb, and Portugal. 3) Internationalization.

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New York Connecticut Angel Groups Florida 114

techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

Convertible Equity, A Better Alternative To Convertible Debt? As a refresher, a convertible note is a loan that automatically converts into equity upon the closing of a Series A round of financing. First, with convertible debt, startups generally have to pay simple (not compounded) interest on the amount of the loan.

Equity 87

Equity San Francisco Technical Review Angel Investor 87

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

owing to projected weakness in the economies of Israel’s main trading partners, the United States and Europe. Shamir Optical reported revenues of $142 million in 2009, generated mainly in Europe and the United States, and has about 1,400 employees. US CHIPMAKER PMC SIERRA ACQUIRES ISRAELI WINTEGRA. billion, of which $2.5

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Bandwidth Framework Forecast 79

techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

AngelList Launches Docs To Help Startups Sign And Close Seed Rounds Online With Low Legal Fees. The hybrid social network, communication and crowdsourcing platform allows startups to access investors, and has also become a resource for investors looking to boost dealflow and connect with other investors. Enterprise. Smartphones.

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Term Sheet San Francisco Technical Review Seed Stage 70

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). VC & Startup Resources. Seed Startups. VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Hundreds of startups featured since 2005, will yours be next? About VC Cafe.

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Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

YoungUpstarts

MAY 13, 2016

From coast to coast, evidence of democratic principles and practices are front and center, playing out everywhere from small town hall meetings to global front page news. By 2017, more than 50 percent of all IoT products will come from startups that are less than three years old ( Gartner ). by Jeffery Kang, CEO and founder, IngDan.

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Artificial Inteligence China Incubator Startup 100