Start Up Blog

MAY 10, 2010

The internet is a bit like dogs. As Facebook is currently being touted to be, then I love to remind the pundit just a little bit about the history of the internet. 5 an hour in India for a coder, $9.99 for a domain, $Free internet access and a wifi enabled laptop for a few hundred dollars and you’re an internet entrepreneur.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

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.). Out of that total, they funded 967 Internet deals with $6.7 billion in all deals.

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mashable.com

JANUARY 18, 2012

When inspiration strikes, it’s all too tempting to start envisioning your company logo, web design, signage, business cards, etc. The name I chose is scovry and the website ( [link] ) that it goes to is a social media based search engine that displays results in a “spy” type format. Social Networks etc.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

After all, high-quality open source software is free, the cloud makes computer power far less expensive, and anyone with an Internet connection can learn Ruby and CSS. One of the things we hear a lot about in Silicon Valley is how cheap and easy it is to launch a startup these days. Check out our starter program. Shoot us some feedback.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 13, 2012

Here’s a recap on the keynote, as well as some of the presentation and panel sessions: Trends, Fads & Transformation: The Impact of the Internet. Get the content right, and use the content to build the people network, and use that network to amplify content; and. · There really isn’t a “B2B” company.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

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.). Out of that total, they funded 967 Internet deals with $6.7 billion in all deals.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

She is an award winning journalist and author of two critically acclaimed books, "Once Youre Lucky, Twice Youre Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0" (Gotham Books, May 2008) and "Brilliant, Crazy, Cocky: How the Top 1% of Entrepreneurs Profit from Global Chaos" (Wiley, February 2011). November 29, 2012. By Sarah Lacy.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Amazon Web Services. Social networking. Social/Sharing. Web Tools: Hereâ??s We have an iOS SDK as well, for web-web, mobile-mobile, web-mobile video chat and video messaging. We have an iOS SDK as well, for web-web, mobile-mobile, web-mobile video chat and video messaging.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

But I do know that it will form a huge basis of the future of the Internet, how we consume media, how we communicate with friends, how we play games and how we shop. Video will be inextricably linked to the future of the Internet and consumption between PCs, mobile devices and TVs will merge.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Finding a Technical Partner for Your Startup Today I received an inquiry from a student at an Ivy League university who wants to launch a web startup. Infiltrate the social networks (Facebook and Twitter) and then try to connect face-to-face. 10-15/hour.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Building a mobile app startup is the “I want to build an Internet startup” of the late 1990s. For example, SnapDeal is a Groupon clone in India with localized content and features. Think Linkedin – social networking concept adapted to the business industry. At least not so, in my opinion.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

But if youre in the US for example, then your development cost will be anything from 5-10 times higher than offshoring to India or Eastern Europe. Our offshore development team is in India and the result has been excellent because we followed a disciplined process in both selection and ongoing development. Cant wait for more ;).

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David Teten

JUNE 7, 2011

Until recently, most Internet innovation has centered around improvements — big improvements, but incremental ones nonetheless — to existing business models and familiar social structures: Amazon is the ultimate retail destination, Zipcar the ubiquitous rental-car agency; Meetup is a sewing circle on steroids.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Post-Mortem Title : Lessons from Kiko, web 2.0 Thin line between life and death of internet service is a number of users. If you are a web startup , you can take max 6 months to release your first version( for something like mint.com).Simpler the hardware ecosystem in India) and internal reasons (e.g. Company : Kiko.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

At Blurb, we’ve built an Internet platform for people to produce their own bookstore-quality books. Despite the ongoing recession, I took to my kitchen table in 2013 to launch Digital Air Strike — an award-winning automotive social media and digital engagement company. ” Thanks to Ajay Prasad, GMR Web Team ! #16)

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Like this catchy song, the Internet is full of innovative sites products put up there by entrepreneurs looking to get a million users, downloads or clicks. If you’re the average Internet user, probably 10-15. based in emerging markets: Russia, China, India. Aggregated, that’s a lot of money.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

what are the most crucial steps to be taken by a new tech startup when outsourcing major part of the tech to IT firms or outsourcing “product development” eg new social media website project? Near shoring development with your team (ex: your team is based in Canada / India) is cool, but not outsourcing. The way I do it.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

For example: in my translation site story, above, the first milestone might be just a plain ugly web page where a company can create an account, create a new project, then upload named documents into that project. I am starting a big web project, and have been thinking about how to break it down into manageable chunks. a foundation.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

I’ll focus for now on the business itself, there’s plenty of other info on the web if you care to understand the equity ownership or financing history of Facebook and frankly this has been fairly well known for awhile. ==. Facebook estimates they already have 60% of addressable US internet users. Facebook, Inc.

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

It’s an India-based web design company. At least it wasn’t for me, and people in my social network. People more and more now with the internet, now having been around for how many years now? How long has the internet been around? Jonathan: It’s extremely exciting, and I think people already are loving us.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. Had I known it was going to take the internet by storm I probably would have been a bit more careful with my word choice (especially referring to.NET as a language, doh!). the analogy of 1.6

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