Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

Bessemer Venture Partners Expands BVP VII Fund. 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. Portfolio. (3). at 11:26 AM.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Jacqueline and her partner Cortney are designing and manufacturing the line out of China and selling in the U.S. Some examples include Flipkart and Redbus in India, and Freshdiet in the US. Malaysia, India, China, Italy, Argentina, wherever), you are better off raising money locally. You can listen to the rest in the recording.

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The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

We discussed a number of themes close to my heart, including the future of venture, Forward Partners culture and the power of mindfulness practice. Why stop at having a few people on payroll to help your portfolio companies succeed? “Why Why stop at having a few people on payroll to help your portfolio companies succeed?

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 18, 2011

He was a lead for distributed teams in India, Europe and the U.S., Seeing that Web developers take a lot of pride in their online portfolios and keep their LinkedIn profile up to date this just appears incredibly dated. Remote teams are a great thing if you do it right: a team in India, a team in the U.K. and a team in the U.S.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Antonio has a portfolio of Web-based business process management applications for small businesses with 10-100 employees. The key take away from that discussion is: convert potential competitors to partners. At today's roundtable we saw three very nice businesses, each with pilot customers, and each working on real problems.

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 5, 2015

Almost like boiling a frog the micro-VCs who started out as “super angels” (See my post from 2011 on Investor Nomenclature and the Venture Spiral ) writing $25K – $100K checks with personal money, are now managing funds which are $40M – $140M in size, some with multiple partners and are writing checks which are $750K – $1.5M.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

It’s humbling to spend time in India. You spend time in some of the poorest areas, and it’s really surreal knowing that you get to jump on a plane and end up the next night in your own bed in wherever you live in relative luxury. ” “Okay, well you can be an operating partner or a venture partner.”

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Sisu is currently expanding its product portfolio and geographic scale to develop additional cutting-edge, patented, clinically proven medical devices, and to create a system for medical device commercialization in emerging markets. Prior to Sisu, Yarina founded a medical device non-profit working with rural mobile clinics in India.

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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. Whitehill , now a partner at Fox Rothschild ) suggested that we shouldn’t use the typical path to a greencard under the EB-3 (Skilled worker/professional) category. My immigration attorney ( Robert S.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Techstars provides their accelerator portfolio companies with access to financial, human and intellectual capital to fuel the success of their business. Entrepreneurs make connections with other entrepreneurs, mentors, corporate partners, and investors who will help their company succeed.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 24, 2012

We operate as a ‘double-bottom line’ fund,” explains Core Innovation managing partner Mike Harris. “We You may have thought debt bondage was a problem only in rural India. To find more companies like that, Harris and his Core Innovation partner, Arjan Schutte, have launched an annual competition, the Underbanked Innovators Challenge.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

Had a great chat with Jim Armstrong who is a General Partner at Clearstone Venture Partners today on TWiVC. Clearstone currently invests out of a $200 million fund based in LA with offices in Menlo Park and in India. Clearstone currently invests out of a $200 million fund based in LA with offices in Menlo Park and in India.

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David Teten

APRIL 6, 2015

At the American Society for Cell Biology Conference last month in Philadelphia, they described their approach as emulating venture capital by maximizing investigator productivity and investing in a portfolio of strong investigators. As he observes, behavior change (such as prevention) is possible, it’s just expensive.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. With a portfolio that includes food, tech, and services, the fund is industry-agnostic and focused on the overlooked and underrepresented with high-margin business models. Of Indie.VC’s portfolio, 60% of investments are not in NY, CA, or MA.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 12, 2010

mba india. Philippe Botteri Accel Partners London, UK My Bio. Portfolio. (3). Bessemer Venture Partners Expands BVP VII Fund. You named 3 in your post, but what are the 10 others? Thanks for the great post ! Amit said. I was looking for such post.I would like to read more about this topic. Finance Dissertation Help.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 8, 2011

We have discussed the topic of technology product companies from India on my blog for many years now. I can say this with confidence based on my first hand experience mentoring a number of serious and promising Indian product entrepreneurs in the 1M/1M program, one of which, Freshdesk, has just raised financing from Accel Partners.

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thebarefootvc

MARCH 8, 2012

While the initial fund is $120M we will have access to ru-Net’s (the Russian LP) $700M of capital to support growth of portfolio companies and opportunistically invest at later stages where we can add value beyond capital. More importantly, building global networks is key in order to optimize exit opportunities for portfolio companies.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

In the first transaction, SailPoint acquired Beacon Professional Services to supplement the company’s identity management consulting services and to deliver expert support and training to the company’s implementation partner network. SailPoint’s worldwide partner network saw dramatic growth in 2010.

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BeyondVC

MAY 11, 2004

In our weekly partner’s meeting yesterday, we ended up in a discussion about the progression of offshore development in a variety of portfolio companies. For example, one portfolio company had 5 consultants from India trained for 3 months on the product. 6 months later only 2 are left.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 3, 2016

We got to know stellar entrepreneurs in the space and backed them early – 50% of our portfolio is comprised of companies who are defining this computing paradigm, and FPV continues to be a go-to fund for entrepreneurs looking for sector expertise. When we launched, few had heard of blockchain, and bitcoin was a dirty word. 2015EOY_FPV_v31.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

We got to know stellar entrepreneurs in the space and backed them early – 50% of our portfolio is comprised of companies who are defining this computing paradigm, and FPV continues to be a go-to fund for entrepreneurs looking for sector expertise. When we launched, few had heard of blockchain, and bitcoin was a dirty word.

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VC Cafe

JULY 21, 2020

I believe I am qualified to talk about this as I spent ~6 years at Google in strategic partnerships (commerce), as head of Campus London (Google’s first physical startup hub), Head of Google for Entrepreneurs Europe (now called Google for Startups) and eventually general partner for Google Ventures. M&A – Acquisitions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2022

Just the middle class in India is equal in size to the entire population of the United States. This is called brand goodwill, a hard-won value resulting from the trust that a strong name engenders among buyers and partners. Companies with diversified portfolios can focus their energy on other global markets that are doing well.

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

This is a post I’ve wanted to write for a long time, but I needed the time to digest all the other great posts on the topics by other investors, and to analyze specific portfolio data from Haystack over the last five years. Haystack Portfolio Data. Well, that time has finally come.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 16, 2015

Bonus points for the fact that they partner with the social enterprise Vision Spring to facilitate training for optometrists and eye glass manufacturers in the same countries that they donate glasses to (India, Guatemala, and Bangladesh to name a few), so the communities also receive opportunities for sustainable income.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Jackie Kimzey , one of the early Sevin Rosen general partners, is a fellow professor on the faculty of UT Dallas with me.) For example, Naya Ventures is an early-stage VC focused mainly on US and India-based companies, with a $50m fund and reportedly working on the next. But, it wasn’t knocked out, with signs of re-emergence.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2019

Just the middle class in India is equal in size to the entire population of the United States. This is called brand goodwill, a hard-won value resulting from the trust that a strong name engenders among buyers and partners. Companies with diversified portfolios can focus their energy on other global markets that are doing well.

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K9 Ventures

JULY 21, 2016

That’s 7 out of about 29 investments that K9 has made to date and so that’s almost 1/4 of the K9 portfolio. In at least one case, one of my portfolio companies wasn’t able to source the parts they would have really wanted because Apple had locked up the entire supply chain for that part!

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Transformify

DECEMBER 2, 2019

At the same time, to win a project, creative agencies need to demonstrate that they have the right skills and competencies on their teams, provide references and portfolios. Imagine that you have hired freelancers and contingent workers in the US, India and Korea. Research and Development & Life Sciences Organisations.

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BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 10, 2003

A number of my portfolio companies outsource development to India and other locales. If it works well, you should have an option to eventually buy your partner out and turn your consultants into employees. with partners), most companies cannot properly build their own offshore team. 2k in-house vs. $3-3.5k

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Just the middle class in India is equal in size to the entire population of the United States. This is called brand goodwill, a hard-won value resulting from the trust that a strong name engenders among buyers and partners. Companies with diversified portfolios can focus their energy on other global markets that are doing well.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Just the middle class in India is equal in size to the entire population of the United States. This is called brand goodwill, a hard-won value resulting from the trust that a strong name engenders among buyers and partners. Companies with diversified portfolios can focus their energy on other global markets that are doing well.

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Haystack

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

over the last few years; in India, a Lightspeed portfolio company Udaan just hit the billion-dollar valuation mark; and last month in China, Pinduoduo rocketed from $0 to $23B+ in less than four years, going public. Only a small handful of other venture firms have grown into such global powers, such as Sequoia and Accel. [

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2012

Just the middle class in India is equal in size to the entire population of the United States. This is called brand goodwill, a hard-won value resulting from the trust that a strong name engenders among buyers and partners. Companies with diversified portfolios can focus their energy on other global markets that are doing well.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 6, 2020

Almost every company in our portfolio with more than 50 employees either has or is looking at a second (or third, or fourth) location. China and India work, but seem to be harder and more hit or miss. I learned an approach many years ago from my now-partner Chris Moody that he used at Aquent when he was COO.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

As a registered user of The Wall Street Journal Online, you will be able to: Setup and manage your portfolio. Funds Slide Hits Paulson Ally A former employee who helped John Paulson make billions has lost a large chunk of his personal portfolio by investing with his old boss. WSJ India Page. Welcome, Logout. Customer Center.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2011

Just the middle class in India is equal in size to the entire population of the United States. This is called brand goodwill, a hard-won value resulting from the trust that a strong name engenders among buyers and partners. Companies with diversified portfolios can focus their energy on other global markets that are doing well.

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