ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Jacqueline asked an important question: how do you mitigate your working capital challenges in an e-commerce company at the very early stages without raising financing? First, there are two primary aspects that have to be managed: inventory financing and customer acquisition costs. Well, there are multiple nuances to the answer.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 24, 2016

The main character wanted to start a company, or join a startup, but couldn’t make either happen in the context of the current H1-B visa constraints. I’ve offered to help, and – like I did with Code: Debugging the Gender Gap – am providing some financing for that effort. Now, this wasn’t a dry movie.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

One of my favorite events last year was attending Startup Grind where I got to interview Clayton Christensen, author of The Innovator’s Dilemma. And of course we talked about many of my views of building startups. I got a job at a bank, and I worked in their corporate finance group. You didn’t join startups then.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 17, 2023

India’s furniture rental startup, Furlenco, is all set to sell a 35% stake to Sheela Foam , the maker of the popular mattress brand Sleepwell. Furlenco is a Bengaluru-based furniture and appliance rental service that operates in more than a dozen cities across India. The deal, proposed at $36.5

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 29, 2023

When it comes to launching a startup, most founders think they should reside in the United States, Silicon Valley, in particular, to have a successful business. While being in Silicon Valley provides excellent access to key people and companies, its fierce competition and fast-paced environment can soon kill the dreams of having a startup.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 2, 2020

Every year/month and every day, we see new Entrepreneurs embarking this journey of solving a problem, launching Tech Startups, building a product, or a service that solves problems of the masses. But I strongly believe that with these five parameters, you will be able to build a strong foundation for your startup or business.

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Our Own Start-up

JANUARY 29, 2021

Mihir Mehta joined Ashika Group, a diversified financial services business in 2015 and self-learned the ropes of Investment Banking, a role usually reserved for older and more experienced finance professionals.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

First is that there are, perhaps, a thousand people in the world of entrepreneurship who know what they are doing when it comes to dealing with issues like financing, positioning, market sizing, customer validation, customer acquisition and other seemingly obvious topics that all entrepreneurs need to deal with. Tags: StartUp 101.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

The past year saw startups on the rise, an increase in venture capital funding (both in real dollars and numbers of companies funded), a resurgence of IPOs, and the rise of David against Goliath, as best represented by Groupon’s spurning of a $6 billion offer from Google. Investors will be bullish on startups.

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www.seriesseed.com

DECEMBER 9, 2012

Series Seed Financing Documents Blog. Series Seed Financing Documents. Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Series Seed Financing Documents : 1 Reblog. Good idea, I think this will benefit lots of startups and some angels. Ted: Great service to the startup community! SeriesSeed.com. Blog Archives.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

I will work with him on his inventory financing strategy. With enterprise customers, this would result in tremendous exit barriers, making sales cycles long and involved, which a small startup will find hard to withstand. Tags: StartUp 101. JCLABoutique.com. Jeanne's positioning needs a lot of work. Photo by brokenarts.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 5, 2011

First up, Satya Choppadhandi from Bangalore, India, presented Evolutech Networks, a company that manufactures wireless energy monitoring devices for the smart home. The smart home business is still in the very early stages in India, and it will take some time before Evolutech ramps up. These resellers buy devices from the U.S.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 23, 2018

Berry’s passion is driving India forward as a global leader in the digital industry. Here are six startup tips for aspiring Indian entrepreneurs looking to start their own businesses, like he did. Know your finances. Be smart with your finances. He graduated from Punjab University.

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Gust

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

There are literally hundreds of platforms currently operating that connect investors and startups, and there have been at least a hundred others that have come and gone. As I’ve discussed elsewhere, Gust’s long-term goal is to serve as the infrastructure platform for the entire global, early stage finance industry.

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What is ESG Investing? The tricycle of businesses

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

With this piece, we take a look at the Drone market in India. And no, this isn’t a robot uprising,

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What is ESG Investing? The tricycle of businesses

OCTOBER 19, 2020

With this piece, we take a look at everything you possibly need to know about Fintech in India and the.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 21, 2021

Our startup story is relatively unique. India has been known for 1000’s years for health and beauty routines/ideas like Ayurveda/Yoga, which have derived inspiration from Nature. We felt that we should be the first brand to share this wealth of knowledge from India to the world. Thanks to Chris Vaughn, Saucey ! #6-

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

I call it drip-financing. Most entrepreneurs have no choice but to avail of this sort of financing along with the mentoring and the contacts that could come with it (doesn't always come along, though). In 1M/1M, our preferred financing strategy is customers. Because customer financing equals revenue, not equity.

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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. The answer is yes and yes.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Sequoia has financed them. Rajeev wants to build a BPO firm in a place called Bolpur in West Bengal, India. Tags: StartUp 101. With 600-800 vendors with their own specific integration requirements, there is a plethora of opportunities to build integration services companies around specific vendors or specific domains.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Guest Post by Misti Yang, Writer for Lean Startup Co. Editor’s Note: We wrapped up the 2017 Lean Startup Week in San Francisco just a few weeks ago, and we’re excited to share with you some of the best lessons learned in entrepreneurship and corporate innovation. Because these Lean Startup people, they do crazy stuff,” Alex joked. “So

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 7, 2010

That is debt financing that converts into equity at the Series A valuation once the price for that is set. (I Our discussion today was largely around her financing strategy, and one of the key milestones that I probed her on was: What does it take to get a validated customer? Tags: StartUp 101. Photo by lco.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 28, 2018

Agencies in the Philippines, India, and other countries with a lower cost of living offer wide range of services, from web designing to content writing and marketing. The post 3 Cost-Saving Tips for Your Business Website appeared first on The Startup Magazine. But again, professional writers usually come with a price tag.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 27, 2011

For a more elaborate explanation of the deal, please read my blog post 1M/1M: Alternative Financing For Startups Using A Sales Channel Partner. Clearly, it can go much further, and Hicham is trying to decide whether he grows organically, or raises outside financing. I would never take investment in a startup from a hedge fund.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 24, 2011

The discussion today was around Social Media financing and go-to-market strategy. 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. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes.

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 14, 2020

For the last two plus years, I have been running a startup, HiHello , as it’s CEO. It was an incredibly busy and stressful time as my father was critically ill and I had to urgently leave for India). I am pleased that I/K9 Ventures got to lead the Pre-Seed round of financing for Pragli. ” But it wasn’t that simple!

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

More recently, Eric Ries and Dave McClure added fuel to the fire (See Eric Ries’ blog post: Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweet) and helped kick off a campaign on @ 2Gov. ” The options were to either go back home to New Delhi, India, or, risk getting myself into an immigration nightmare.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 1, 2020

Our whole startup team brainstormed for days before coming up with ideas. Now that my new career is in the personal finance industry, I’m helping women tame their money. The word is popular in South India. We quickly decided we wanted an animal mascot. 16- Inspired by my previous career. Photo Credit: Steffa Mantilla.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Over the next 5-6 posts I’ll outline the process which I’ve now followed at several corporates and which I’ve honed to work with my own startup, Aroxo. Or the founders have taken on a small amount of seed financing, just enough to get them into the market. Either way, bootstrapping is a viable model.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

ViVu is also a startup (funded by DFJ, and seed funds Inventus Capital, Quest Venture Partners, and Amidzad), and true to our philosophy, we're using the 1M/1M program to give them visibility. It is very much my intention to provide similar visibility and customer access to a large number of startups through 1M/1M. Photo by svilen001.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2018

Launching a new startup is always a daunting challenge. LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman describes the experience of building a startup as jumping off a cliff and building an airplane on the way down. However, the thrill and risks of creating a startup in a nascent space with vague regulations are magnified. Source: Pixabay.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Our startup checklist can help walk you through the steps to getting your business up and running. If you’re looking for information for specific business planning or startup resources in your country, there are a few ways to do that. Let’s say you’re an entrepreneur in India. How to start a business anywhere in the world.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Thomas Clayton is the CEO of Bubbly , a social media startup backed by Sequoia Capital, SingTel Innov8, and JAFCO. . There are numerous VCs in Japan, but the landscape is still not nearly as built out as it is in India and China, and has nowhere near the level of Silicon Valley VC influence that those two countries have.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 5, 2012

At today's roundtable, we had an unusual amount of discussion on ERP startups. Given that ERP is such a mature market, the fact that all this startup activity is going on in ERP is a bit puzzling to me. Sudhi also has a professional services business that generates $200-250k a year, and is currently financing his forays into ERP.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 16, 2010

However, Deborah is looking for ways to sell her low carbon footprint green house technology to producers, and is in conversations with producers in Senegal and India. The company is profitable and has so far raised only $400,000 in friends and family and angel financing. Jimmy asked if he should be raising money at this point.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Sachin Bansal and his business partner, Binny Bansal, launched an e-commerce site in India in 2007. The name of this startup was Flipkart and they started it with $6,500. The post 10 of the Most Successful Investors of the Last 10 Years appeared first on The Startup Magazine. Today, he is worth $1 billion. Sachin Bansal.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

As a result, the expectation is that you have to figure out a way to get to some level of momentum on your own (by bootstrapping) or with small doses of angel money - "drip financing" so to speak. Gnosis India. In today's India, people with high-end engineering skills are in high demand. Tags: StartUp 101.

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