ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

It is particularly satisfying for me to work with these entrepreneurs because I have long believed that India needs to diversify out of pure labor arbitrage. Other discussions on India's need for product companies have also been equally controversial. Upwardly mobile consumers, I am sure, would welcome a service like Delyver.

Entrepreneur 118

Entrepreneur India Technical Review Los Angeles 118

The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

However, this primarily applies to businesses within China and India, where these big firms reside, as they rarely invest in startups outside of those two countries. As I touched on before, China and India have the most mature VC communities. Sequoia , Accel , NEA , etc.). Of course, there are exceptions, but they are minimal.

Asia 132

Asia Silicon Valley India Term Sheet 132

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

One of the great joys of doing the web series This Week in VC every week is that I get to spend time with great people debating the issues of our day including how our industry is evolving as well as insights into how companies got started, got their initial traction and dealt with adversities. Oh, yeah. Positive feedback feeds the idea.

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Connecticut Cofounder Silicon Valley Web 286

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 10, 2020

India, China, and many other countries are currently under lockdown. In countries such as India the central banks have not yet cautioned the public against using currency notes. These include the Ria website, the mobile web, as well as the Ria mobile app. The quarantining measures have also impacted remittances.

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Dominican Republic Nicaragua Armenia Morocco 147

thebarefootvc

JUNE 15, 2014

Thanks to the Web and mobile connectivity, more and more people have access to online resources for education and information – the combination of on-the-ground expertise and this access to global information is creating a revolution. Starbucks has also built successful retail mobile payment experience, albeit a closed loop one.

Africa 40

Africa India Bangladesh United States 40

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 24, 2012

The second category is composed of companies that have developed a unique IP locally and marketed it worldwide - typically in the gaming, software, security or mobile sectors. mobile phone per person for the Top 4 EE countries (vs. in GE, 1.3 in Brazil and 0.8 I will elaborate a bit on the first one – Big Data.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 1, 2020

6- Representation of a mobile and maternal mammal. We eventually settled on the kangaroo, which is both mobile and maternal, literally transporting its young in its pouch. It occurred in a web design class I was taking and we were challenged to create a domain name followed by taking steps to create the site.

Naming 149

Naming Entrepreneur New Hampshire LLC 149

Austin Startup

JULY 14, 2017

This is what Silicon Valley contributed to the Internet and no amount of media spin or PR crisis campaign is going to change what Silicon Valley done to a great technology such as the World Wide Web and the digital economy.

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Silicon Valley Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Africa 48

techland.time.com

JANUARY 16, 2013

Apps & Web. 22, TIME.com becomes the first global news site to roll out a fully responsive redesign optimized for mobile and tablet browsing. What it means, in the simplest of terms, is that all the pages of the site will now automatically resize to fit all computer and mobile-device screens. Video Games. Person of the Year.

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Global Technical Review Minnesota RSS 68

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 5, 2015

There will be big growth in the world but it will be elsewhere in countries like India or in Africa , where there will also be some big opportunities. One example of how fast we have been speeding up is that the number of mobile web users is growing eight times faster today than the number of people getting on desktops in the mid-1990s.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 31, 2015

Entrepreneur Prerna Gupta believes that there’s a billion-dollar opportunity in bringing “Lean” principles to the development and distribution of mass-market fiction, and in presenting stories as a mobile-first experience. ReadyTalk, a 15-year-old web conferencing software company, launched an internal startup.

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Lean United States Fractional CTO Startup 60

The Next Web

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Rahul Varshneya is the co-founder of Arkenea , a company committed to helping entrepreneurs and businesses build, market and monetize their mobile apps. 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.

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Mobile Startup Singapore India 151

crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2012

miiCard– which stands for “My Internet Identity”– is an identify verification service using your email address, your mobile phone, and your online banking account to prove you are actually you. It also streamlines your web experience. It provides a safer, faster and more convenient way to transact online.

Small Business 75

Small Business South Africa North America New Zealand 75

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 31, 2016

A mobile app is on its way. Currently we are only operational in Mumbai, India and focusing on cooking and baking classes in the city. Then I decided to return to India and visited a dentist for an enquiry. The cost estimated in India was 150-180 U.S.D After graduating from college we wanted to give shape to our idea.

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Entrepreneur India Cofounder Technical Review 48

The Next Web

JUNE 12, 2014

Andrea Boetti is a Business Development Manager at Fortumo, helping web and app developers and digital content merchants build out their monetization strategies for emerging markets. Yet many of the big digital content distribution platforms like Pandora and Netflix are not available in countries like Brazil, Turkey and India (Spotify just.

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Turkey Brazil India Marketing 143

thenextweb.com

OCTOBER 17, 2011

The Next Web Blog. Part of The Next Web family. 4G Service to Start Rolling Out in India. 4G Service to Start Rolling Out in India. Murdochs Sun newspaper reportedly shuns paywall in favor of paid mobile apps and ads. Copyright 2011 The Next Web. login / register. Conference. tips@thenextweb.com. -->.

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Social Media Stealth India Startup 67

Andrew Payne

OCTOBER 26, 2012

You have to be living under a rock to miss the shift in Web usage from “traditional” devices (desktop and laptop) to mobile devices (phones and tablets). For example, in India, mobile phones now account for nearly 50% of consumer Internet usage , and mobile usage is growing rapidly world-wide.

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Mobile Widget India Web 59

David Teten

AUGUST 15, 2013

For example, Qualcomm Ventures hosts an international business plan competition called QPrize , which targets mobile technology startups. Amazon hosts an annual startup challenge for companies using Amazon Web Services (AWS). Hopefully the Fortune 500 will buy from, invest in, and perhaps eventually acquire them.

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Startup Technical Support Venture Capital Balance Sheet 114

Andrew Payne

OCTOBER 26, 2012

You have to be living under a rock to miss the shift in Web usage from “traditional” devices (desktop and laptop) to mobile devices (phones and tablets). For example, in India, mobile phones now account for nearly 50% of consumer Internet usage , and mobile usage is growing rapidly world-wide.

Mobile 49

Mobile Widget India Web 49

Campus Entrepreneurship

APRIL 24, 2011

Annupama Chandrasekaran of Livemint.com offers us an inside look at India’s some of India’s student entrepreneurs and their firms. Welcome to India’s student start-ups—companies founded by people in graduate and postgraduate schools across the country. that is true of student start-ups in general.

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India Entrepreneur Mobile Web 50

The Next Web

OCTOBER 31, 2012

accelerator and brought on two venture partners to help oversee its India investments. Startups in this class come from far and away, including Argentina, Austria, Australia, Brazil, Croatia, Denmark, India, Japan, Italy, Latvia & Estonia, Spain, and Taiwan. Curious Hat: mobile exploration tools for curious children.

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Founder Brazil Latvia India 136

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 10, 2020

I run a web app that generates business names, but I didn’t have my algorithm ready in time to file my LLC. I am originally from India but have been away from the country for almost 16 years. It’s the one tangible object – besides a mobile phone, that most people carry around and are familiar with.

Naming 105

Naming Artificial Inteligence Kansas Entrepreneur 105

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2014

China, Russia, Brazil, India, Indonesia all meet those criteria. Outside the U.S. a rough rule of thumb for scale is a local population greater than 100 million (and language, cultural and/or regulatory barriers to delay or keep out U.S. Obviously this depends on industry and application.)

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Global Australia Silicon Valley China 335

thebarefootvc

OCTOBER 17, 2011

The title of this blog comes from a presentation I did at last year’s Web 2.0 I overviewed the growth of the global internet and penetration, noting that the future of the Web was going to be driven by emerging countries, as mobile connectivity continues to be more ubiquitous and the West is largely penetrated.

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Global Internet Web Indonesia 59

YoungUpstarts

JULY 8, 2018

For this businesses need to approach professionals who have expertise in mobile app development. Tu hin Bhatt is a co-founder of Intelivita , a leading web and mobile app development company with offices in the UK and India. His expertise in Mobile Game, iOS, Android, AR and VR app technologies. Get the Word Out.

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Demand Cofounder India Mobile 100

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 23, 2013

It also works as a fully featured mobile application, and retailers can manage their shop on the go through the mobile app. “Shopify hasn’t really penetrated the market in Asia,” admits Harley Finkelstein, Shopify’s chief platform officer.

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Singapore Partner Asia North America 164

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Mobile device usage will increase. India and China will grow in population and influence. Surely building a story around a “geo-mobile app with viral social gaming” stacks the funding deck in your favor. Sign up for AppSumo 's daily deals specifically for web geeks & entrepreneurs. Is that really better?

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Institutional Investors India China Viral 240

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2013

Over the next few decades, this young cohort would comprise a rising proportion of citizens in Asia (31%-40% in Singapore, Korea, Hong Kong and Japan, and more than 51% in Malaysia, Philippines, India and Indonesia). Macro Trend 2: Urbanization. In fact, we’re enveloped by a staggering 10 billion devices transmitting information!

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Technology Singapore Malaysia Indonesia 174

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.). The numbers of mobile subscribers are staggering – 1.18

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Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 267

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

Mobile Devices. Mobile Applications. With a plethora of mobile applications available across all platforms, life should surely become easier for the busy real estate agents. These are Web-based services that remove the need for emailing information back and forth and even spare you the hassle of faxing.

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Technology Cloud India Mobile 100

The Next Web

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

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. In other words, you don’t see Silicon Valley bigwigs in Japan, but they’re all over India and China.

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Asia Silicon Valley India China 123

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

Clearstone currently invests out of a $200 million fund based in LA with offices in Menlo Park and in India. Palm (acquired by HP ) – In our interview we talked about how transformational mobile computing is and why it’s different than web computing (e.g. They’ve had a total of 12 deals that have IPO’d.

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IPO .Net Venture Capital Strategic Investors 236

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

A new survey by Adobe and Econsultancy finds that 52% of digital marketers consider the ability to personalize web content to be fundamental to their online strategy. According to a recent study location targeting more than doubles performance of mobile ads. Similar system is used in targeted ads on websites across the web.

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Conversion Clickthrough India United Kingdom 112

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

an advertising and mobile services company that has subscribers and vendors as customers. Since two of the vendors so far are mobile/computer electronics businesses, that is where he should focus to start. Last up, Adarsh Jain pitched Fippy, a Web-based interface offering consumers customized mobile phone numbers in India.

Tanzania 128

Tanzania Africa Entrepreneur Startup 128

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.). The numbers of mobile subscribers are staggering – 1.18

Silicon Valley 159

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 159

thebarefootvc

MAY 11, 2018

I wrote about London and India observations in the last newsletter. Even though China has banned cryptocurrencies, the country is putting significant resources into developing blockchain infrastructure, in the same way they put billions of dollars to work to gain a lead in artificial intelligence and mobile technology.

Silicon Valley 40

Silicon Valley Los Angeles Artificial Inteligence India 40

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Many of the respondents for Hubspot’s State of Inbound 2015 Asia report – in fact, almost half – comes from India. Can you tell us why the number is so, and if there’s a specific significance to India when it comes to the marketing activities of Indian companies?

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