Up and Running

MAY 15, 2018

Innovative products and business models are the foundations of a promising startup. Funding is crucial for improving technology, hiring the right people, and launching a comprehensive marketing strategy to get a foothold in the market. Make sure to use the latest automation and software technologies wherever makes sense.

SBA 84

SBA Angel Investor Technical Review Startup 84

The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Thomas Clayton has started and run numerous high-tech startups in Silicon Valley. He is currently CEO of Bubbly , a social media startup backed by Sequoia Capital, SingTel Innov8, and JAFCO. The company is one of the largest VC–backed startups in Southeast Asia, having raised over $60M in funding.

Asia 132

Asia Silicon Valley India Term Sheet 132

VC Cafe

MARCH 18, 2014

However, the ex-COO of Indian wireless carrier Tata TeleServices , presenting at Axis Tel Aviv this week, has a decidely commercial objective- finding Israeli startups for investment. Although relatively few Israeli startups are focused on India, the market dynamics driving its mobile sector are worth a closer look.

India 74

India Indonesia China 74

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. One partner takes on a business role and the other takes responsibility for technology.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Fractional CTO Partner CTO Hire 40

ReadWriteStart

MAY 19, 2011

During today's roundtable, we opened the session with a discussion of the existential crisis in media and how talented bloggers and journalists are facing a tough time sustaining themselves due to lack of business models. The hosts were Girish Joshi of Microsoft India and 1M/1M Ambassadors, Praveen Karoshi, Rajesh Nair and Thejas Gupta.

India 115

India Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Affiliate 115

The Startup Magazine

MAY 31, 2022

Human resource outsourcing allows you to better forecast your business expenses due to pre-determined pricing. Outsourcing to developing countries with lower living costs, such as India and the Philippines, can drop the cost of an HR function even further. They’ll also get access to cutting-edge HR technology.

United States 135

United States Salary UAE Hiring 135

The Next Web

AUGUST 22, 2013

Thomas Clayton has started and run numerous high-tech startups in Silicon Valley. He is currently CEO of Bubbly, a social media startup backed by Sequoia Capital, SingTel Innov8, and JAFCO. The company is one of the largest VC–backed startups in Southeast Asia, having raised over $60 million in funding. .

Asia 127

Asia China Japan Startup 127

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Well, 1M/1M is focused on helping businesses generate $1M in annual revenue, whatever be the nature of the business. But our goal is to make sure that these businesses are sustainable, have customers, revenues, and profits. It turns out that in my Vision India 2020 book, I have a similar project called FDBI.

India 116

India Green Silicon Valley Massachusetts 116

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Depending on its complexity, new product development can last for years, accruing research, prototyping, and production costs without bringing in revenue. And we charge money for it.” – Eric Ries, The Lean Startup. It’s a strategy often used by smartphone brands like Samsung and Huawei in emerging markets such as India.

Product 142

Product Marketing Software Review Social Media 142

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 14, 2011

a group of entrepreneurs from TiE Chennai gathered at the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M) Research Park campus, and we spent the next four hours discussing strategy and tactics of early-stage entrepreneurship. The concept, if technically as compelling as it sounds, could become a standard in building safety all over the world.

India 126

India Technical Review Entrepreneur Silicon Valley 126

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Sramana Mitra is the founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative, an educational, business development and incubation program that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant. This is where numerous ventures fail.

Silicon Valley 118

Silicon Valley India San Francisco Entrepreneur 118

Transformify

MARCH 14, 2020

These days, due to coronavirus outbreak, many businesses have asked their employees to work from home. At the same time, the stock markets collapsed, and most businesses already report skyrocketing losses, unmet revenue targets and insufficient stock due to production slow down in China, India and the rest of the world.

Hiring 98

Hiring Bulgaria Italy Spain 98

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Most of the Internet startup consulting firms went bankrupt. Accenture opened massive operations in India & China and continued its industry dominance. Since that date the S&P 500 is up 2.45% while Accenture stock is up 206% with revenue of $23 billion and a market cap of $32 billion. Who can keep up with all this stuff?

Turkey 302

Turkey Differentiation IP Technical Review 302

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. Technology ubiquity.

Technical Review 63

Technical Review Valuation Venture Capital Investment Bankers 63

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. I like this business very much, and believe it can be a large, and important company.

Entrepreneur 118

Entrepreneur India Technical Review Los Angeles 118

Seeing Both Sides

MAY 19, 2019

Graduating students hungry to dive into the startup community around the world (aka StartUpLand ) often struggle to select the right, specific opportunity where they can productively start their career. Are You Suited For A StartUp? a nod to the growing global importance of those two startup ecosystems. Other Startup Hubs.

Startup 24

Startup DC India Software Review 24

thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

This was the year that the promise of technology to truly change the world and empower individuals (the reason I entered the tech world in 1994) reached global scale. In India, two female journalists launched a mobile app to allow women to report harrassment and abuse, an issue in their hometown of Delhi and throughout the world.

Technical Review 110

Technical Review India Mobile Hockey Stick 110

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

I rarely talk to any startup entrepreneur or VC who doesn’t feel it and somehow long for simpler times despite the benefits we all enjoy from increased enthusiasm for our sector. And even this can’t stop their employees from fleeing after two years of vesting to move on to the next hot startup. Easier said than done.

Software Review 150

Software Review Turkey Portfolio Syndicate 150

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

First up was Brad Barrett presenting GrillGrate , a grill accessory with which Brad has built a year-to-date revenue of $400,000. 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. GrillGrate. TheNextBigZing.com.

India 114

India Silicon Valley Incubator Bootstrapping 114

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Today, at the roundtable, we had a discussion around the topic, especially in the context of specific geographies that were represented at the session: Dublin, Ireland, and Kolkata, India. In India, five of the seven major metros are seeing significant improvement in entrepreneurial energy. These do not require reinventing the wheel.

Silicon Valley 124

Silicon Valley Ireland India Entrepreneur 124

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

At today's roundtable, we had entrepreneurs presenting from Brazil, Israel and India. In fact, I was pleased to even see an entrepreneur from Kolkata, India, the city in which I was born and raised. Up last, Leandro Telles from Brazil, pitched ledface , a knowledge management technology company that still needs a business strategy.

Brazil 115

Brazil India Entrepreneur 115

Where to Play

AUGUST 18, 2020

We usually tend to think of innovation in terms of advanced technologies. A good indicator for this fact is the growing number of Chai-Startups in India. Time to revenue is low due to short transactional volume and the short sale cycle. They also risk the short supply of organic milk due to the rising demand.

Pakistan 62

Pakistan Sales Cycle Marketing Technical Review 62

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 23, 2011

Acelerar Technologies Daniel expects SharePoint's cloud based solution provider eco-system to develop over the next few years. Anupam Rajey from Lucknow, India, presented Acelerar Technologies , an outsourced accounting services BPO project from India. For now, it won't come in through the store. Discuss.

Spain 115

Spain Entrepreneur India San Francisco 115

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

I first met Evangelos Simoudis when he ran IBM’s Business Intelligence Solutions Division and then as CEO of his first startup Customer Analytics. The last 40 years have seen an explosive adoption of new technologies (social media, telecom, life sciences, etc.) Figure 1 : Five technology revolutions source: Carlota Perez.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Venture Capital United States Technical Review 120

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

I never implied that startups are all great and job hoppers are all at fault. Most of what I learned about operating startups I learned from the really tough years at my first company from 2001-2003. That is when no customers wanted to work with Internet startups because we as an industry had burned so many customers.

Venture Capital 285

Venture Capital Hiring Software Review Stock Options 285

Life Beyond Code

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

One Million by One Million is a global initiative that aims to nurture a million entrepreneurs reach a million dollars each in annual revenue and beyond by 2020, thereby creating a trillion dollars in global GDP and ten million jobs. Any startup that wants to fast-track to being ‘Silicon Valley VC ready’ should participate in this program.”.

Programming 116

Programming Silicon Valley Bootstrapping Technical Review 116

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

DECEMBER 9, 2010

It started out as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, and Design. I had no idea what people did whether tech, entertainment, or design. President of The Tech Museum. For those of who you do not know what TED events are about. Since then its scope has become ever broader.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Las Vegas Software Review Bangladesh 76

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 17, 2011

As I said to an entrepreneur from Hong Kong at a previous roundtable: whether you are building a startup in Silicon Valley or Timbuktu, the methodology of bringing a product or service to market is not that much different. Adarsh Patil from Bangalore, India, presented ResortHunt. Ten people paying $37.50 ResortHunt.

Costa Rica 114

Costa Rica America Silicon Valley Entrepreneur 114

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Charge-back accounting solution for large enterprises deploying cloud technologies. Ric Telford, VP of cloud services, IBM pointed me to the rather significant move towards rolling out private clouds at large enterprises, a move that IBM is spearheading by providing full stacks of infrastructure technologies. Photo by thesaint.

Cloud 117

Cloud Fractional CTO Entrepreneur Bandwidth 117

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time. Update – As a followup, we analyzed all of these startup failure post-mortems to identify the top 20 reasons for startup failure. Also worth a read after you review these startup failure post-mortems. Post-Mortem Title : How My Startup Failed.

Software Review 79

Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

Up and Running

MAY 16, 2016

See Also: Business Startup Checklist. This growth is due, in large part, to an aging U.S. To date, North America has dominated the home health care global marketplace due mainly to a more sophisticated health care infrastructure and more resources committed to research and development. Technological upkeep and maintenance.

North America 95

North America United States Technical Review America 95

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind. 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind. Written By Dan Martell on February 2nd, 2012 | Category: Hiring LeanStartup Marketing Metrics Startup Life | 6 Comments. I have the knowledge in tech to implement it. I love startups. Cause your scared.

Technical Review 44

Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

They already have several customers including some telcos, and are at about $350,000 in revenues. Because customer financing equals revenue, not equity. That's why, I advised Gio to keep going with further execution on his business and build more revenue traction. In 1M/1M, our preferred financing strategy is customers.

Cloud 115

Cloud Silicon Valley Incubator Finance 115

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 13, 2011

Uma is a member of the 1M/1M premium program , and has already started validating his idea with several online classified players in India. Also, I think Uma's offering is under-priced, and I asked him to do some homework on pricing which I will review next week to advise him better on the pricing strategy. Photo by duchesssa.

Advertising 116

Advertising SMS Entrepreneur Silicon Valley 116

Hearpreneur

JULY 1, 2020

Our whole startup team brainstormed for days before coming up with ideas. That’s why I set out to start my own health-tech company, an online pharmacy called Honeybee Health, that used a direct-to-consumer model to give patients access to affordable medications without insurance or middlemen. The word is popular in South India.

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Naming Entrepreneur New Hampshire LLC 150

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 7, 2010

At today's roundtable we had some interesting companies and a lot of fundraising discussions, and I will review them shortly. A lot of money can be made with this product, and Rajan needs to build it without any outside capital - that is, with customer money - that is, with revenue - for a long while yet. Tags: StartUp 101.

Valuation 119

Valuation Silicon Valley Pre-Money Valuation Bootstrapping 119

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 24, 2011

The missing piece is getting reviewed by campus blogs and newspapers, which I advised Chris to look into. a consulting company that provides consulting services in writing and reviewing regulatory filings and other kinds of highly specialized applications in the biomedical field. I like these two strategies. Photo by nazreth.

Illinois 114

Illinois Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Chicago 114