The Next Web

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

Pune, India?. But now more and more tech companies cite a pool of talent and the Irish Venture Capital Association ’s investment tendencies as reasons for the city’s appeal. And this is just one of the many pioneering technologies surfacing out of this mid-sized Southern city of the Netherlands.

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North Carolina Technical Review Cyprus Raleigh 168

The Startup Lawyer

JULY 20, 2017

As an India-based startup, closing on U.S. venture capital is similar to doing so if your company was completely US-based, with a few notable differences. In the past several years, I’ve represented several India-based startups through venture capital financings.

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India Venture Capital Startup Finance 52

thebarefootvc

MAY 13, 2017

As I note in the talk, while we have 6 billion mobile phones in the world, only 29% of women in India are on the internet – connectivity has not solved everything. The post My Talk at MIT: Beyond Finance, Considering Business and Social Impact of Blockchains appeared first on The Barefoot VC.

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Finance Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Internet 53

Pascal's View

AUGUST 28, 2010

6) The most efficient fuel for this IPO engine is venture capital. government dataset compiled by the U.S. .” “… it is highly unlikely that a company that does not take venture capital ends up going public. … Four of the twenty companies with the largest market capitalization in the U.S.—Microsft,

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 6, 2011

She writes the blog Sramana Mitra On Strategy and is author of the Entrepreneur Journeys book series and Vision India 2020. Our community has successfully established a culture of bootstrapping as a counterforce to the compulsive rush to financing that entrepreneurs often mistakenly engage in, only to be rejected over and again by investors.

Silicon Valley 118

Silicon Valley India San Francisco Entrepreneur 118

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.

Silicon Valley 117

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thebarefootvc

JULY 13, 2017

As I note in the talk, while we have 6 billion mobile phones in the world, only 29% of women in India are on the internet – connectivity has not solved everything. The post My Talk at MIT: Beyond Finance, Considering Business and Social Impact of Blockchains appeared first on The Barefoot VC.

Finance 40

Finance Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Internet 40

thebarefootvc

JANUARY 27, 2014

Last week, a chart in the Wall Street Journal listed private companies globally that have raised capital at $1 billion-plus valuations from venture capital firms. Both these factors are resulting in higher valuations post money (meaning the company value set prior to financing + the amount of financing).

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Technical Review Valuation Venture Capital Investment Bankers 63

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

Existing companies are starting to feel the pressures of new technologies and the massive wave of new entrants fueled by the explosion of investment from a recent form of financing – venture capital. Venture capital firms, as we know them only date back to the 1970s.)

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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.

Technical Review 93

Technical Review Venture Capital India Startup 93

Gust

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

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. Instead, it is our eight years of indefatigable relationship and customer building with large segments of the world’s early stage finance industry.

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Belarus Kazakhstan Portugal Accredited Investor 107

Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

Today, Europe and Israel have generated 23 public companies worth $231B and private cloud financing reached c. The $900M of SaaS VC funding in 2015 now represents less than Europe's largest financing round, with Celonis raising $1B in June this year. Private cloud companies in the US, Europe and Israel have raised a whopping $78B YTD.

Global 62

Global Europe Software Review 62

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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Cloud Silicon Valley Incubator Finance 115

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Finally, for those of you who need some additional infusion of courage, please study the story of Ryan Allis in North Carolina who bootstrapped his company iContact to $1 million in revenue and THEN raised venture capital to get to $40 million. So, please don't get discouraged; there are many paths to success.

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North Carolina San Diego Entrepreneur Balance Sheet 116

Life Beyond Code

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Through this journey, we have raised the visibility of fundamental issues like the causes of exorbitantly high infant entrepreneur mortality, and alerted the entrepreneur community with a simple observation: Entrepreneurship = (Customer + Revenue + Profits); Financing is Optional. on a global scale.

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Programming Silicon Valley Bootstrapping Technical Review 116

K9 Ventures

APRIL 14, 2020

It was an incredibly busy and stressful time as my father was critically ill and I had to urgently leave for India). Doug and his co-founder Vivek Nair , were not planning on raising any venture capital money yet. I am pleased that I/K9 Ventures got to lead the Pre-Seed round of financing for Pragli.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

In this case, it appears that tech entrepreneurs and their venture capital backers are eager to make it happen despite the fact that freelancing is over a $4 trillion global industry. It is twice the size of India’s GDP–yet it lacks its own SAPs and Oracles. Knowledge-based professions make up around 25% to 30% of them.

Europe 156

Europe India Venture Capital Technology 156

K9 Ventures

JUNE 5, 2015

In that presentation, I said that Seed is not the first round of financing any more and that K9’s investments were mostly “pre-seed”. The Venture Capital industry as a whole does a terrible job of giving things the right name and so we end up keeping the same name, but changing the meaning out from under it.

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Seed Stage Venture Capital Early Stage Valuation 48

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 29, 2023

According to Jungle Ventures, Southeast Asia’s technology startups had a combined valuation of $340 billion in 2020. Venture capital (VC) investment is the primary funding source for regional startups. And the kinds of goods produced need to be tailored for India, need to be tailored for Indonesia, and so forth.

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Asia Indonesia Silicon Valley Malaysia 171

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). easy business finance software. Boilerplate Venture Funding Documents. YCombinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents. National Venture Capital Association â?? Raising Venture Capital. Venture Hacks equity section.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

The previous post described the evolution of the Chinese Venture Capital system. In Beijing we hadn’t seen air so badly polluted since we had been in Agra in India in the winter where I swear there was a day you could wave your hand in front of you and see traces of it in the air (and their excuse was they burn dung for heat.).

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Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 267

VC Cafe

JUNE 19, 2020

“Because COVID is shaking our habits and beliefs it opens the door to discussion to whether we should change our whole system,” says veteran investor Sir Ronald Cohen, chairman of the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment and the man known as “the father of British venture capital” .

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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. Carlson founded Polychain Capital in 2016. Venture capital firms Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz among others put $15 million into it. Peter is the founder of Bay Street Capital Partners. Peter Gylfe.

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Cofounder Venture Capital India Valuation 141

K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

” The options were to either go back home to New Delhi, India, or, risk getting myself into an immigration nightmare. There were a sum total of three or four “venture capital” funds in Pittsburgh at the time, and none of them had done much with this new fangled thing called the Internet.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 10, 2010

Once they found a profitable business model they realized that scale required external venture capital to fuel rapid expansion. With venture capital came accountability to board members, forecasts, and other people’s agendas. Social Entrepreneurship.

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Silicon Valley Entrepreneur United States New York City 328

Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

New Capital Earmarked for Global High-Growth Investments LARCHMONT, N.Y., 26 Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP), the oldest venture capital practice in the United States, today announced the closing of a $350 million supplement to its current fund family, BVP VII, which closed in June 2007. 2009 Bessemer Venture Partners.

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Software Review Partner United States Venture Capital 48

online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Loading… Personal Finance. Personal Finance. Over the past two years, one of the most influential venture-capital firms has turned the usual rules of start-up investing on its head. in exchange for $70,000 in venture capital and a $30,000 loan from the early venture firm. Welcome, Logout.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 12, 2010

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

I got a job at a bank, and I worked in their corporate finance group. We had a finance group for all of the bank branches based in San Diego, and I wrote programs to download stuff from the mainframe so we could do analysis three days faster than they could send us the data. It’s humbling to spend time in India.

Cofounder 337

Cofounder Technical Cofounder San Diego Startup 337

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

The previous post described the evolution of the Chinese Venture Capital system. In Beijing we hadn’t seen air so badly polluted since we had been in Agra in India in the winter where I swear there was a day you could wave your hand in front of you and see traces of it in the air (and their excuse was they burn dung for heat.).

Silicon Valley 159

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 159

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

3, 2010) —Venture capitalists from around the world invested $7.8 Europe, Canada, Israel, Mainland China and India, according to industry tracker Dow Jones VentureSource. Venture investment in some major investment hubs, such as Europe, has not regained its footing following the economic downturn in 2008. In India, the $8.7

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China Europe North America India 74

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

India and China will grow in population and influence. What’s the secret to manufacturing this combination of foresight, timing, and financing? Even so, venture capital has a horrible record in the past ten years — most funds don’t make good money. Mobile device usage will increase.

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Institutional Investors India China Viral 240

K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 12, 2015

I define #PeakVC as the point in time when the maximum amount of $$s are entering the Venture Capital industry. That is because the venture capital industry operates in cycles. That increases the overall money supply coming in to venture. It doesn’t matter whether you believe in the Peak Oil theory or not.

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Venture Capital Seed Stage LP Valuation 48

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Venture capitalists today don't exactly practice venture capital. 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. Solution for E-commerce Vendors.

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Channel India Bootstrapping Silicon Valley 115

ReadWriteStart

MAY 24, 2012

At least one venture capital firm is out to make money helping them out. You may have thought debt bondage was a problem only in rural India. There’s a lot of money in poor people. KPMG reports that America’s 88 million consumers who are “unbanked” (no bank account) or “underbanked” (no credit) earn $1.3 trillion a year.

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Minnesota United States India Venture Capital 142

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Terrorism at scale can only occur when these organizations can move money around to finance people who make bombs, buy guns, train recruits and so forth. More than 50% of all ships that sailed wouldn’t return so groups of people banded together and formed the Dutch East India Company to share the risks and the rewards of their conquests.

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Government Distribution Stock United States 280

Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

You literally have to take your vision of the opportunity and against all rational odds assemble financing, and a team to help you execute. You literally have to take your vision of the opportunity and against all rational odds assemble financing, and a team to help you execute. were born in India. steve Michael F.

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