The Next Web

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

Today, with the decentralising nature of the Internet, distributed cloud technology and a growing sentiment toward entrepreneurship, the global startup ecosystem has never been so dispersed. And this is just one of the many pioneering technologies surfacing out of this mid-sized Southern city of the Netherlands. Pune, India?.

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North Carolina Technical Review Cyprus Raleigh 168

David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

Public theses are often inconsistent with how firms actually deploy capital. A typical VC thesis: “we invest in tech startups in Europe at an early stage” However, our experience shows that in many cases: . “Tech” means B2B Saas/Fintech or Consumer apps. of venture capital deals.

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VC Cafe

JULY 21, 2020

For many CEOs, competition with the tech giants an existential concern. A relationship with Google can take many forms, which I will detail in this post as a guide for founders exploring their relationship with big tech. Commercial – a data/tech/commercial partnership or client relationship.

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Technical Review Startup Early Stage Cloud 131

David Teten

APRIL 13, 2021

Empirically, few small emerging investment managers hire placement agents, particularly in venture capital. They had 154 visits, 97 due diligence requests, 33 second visits, and 12 reference requests, to ultimately produce 9 institutional investors. Do your diligence. But can you? No historical relationship. .

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Venture Capital is a tricky industry. Periodically we do portfolio reviews to evaluate whether we have enough diversified risk across the fund. One such theme was “water conservation” and we morphed it into a broader theme of agriculture technology or “ag tech” for short. Far from it.

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David Teten

APRIL 6, 2015

The industry standard metric for tracking the severity of disease is disability-adjusted life years ( DALYs ), i.e., the number of healthy life years lost due to the disease or risk. All venture capital and NIH funding data for CY 2010 – 2014 in USA. Ebola and SARS) are receiving disproportionately low funding. .

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Loading… Tech. SIGNIFICANCE PROMINENT. --> The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail. An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. The National Venture Capital Association estimates that 25% to 30% of venture-backed businesses fail.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Five international MBA programs also boast Unicorn founders, namely INSEAD (France / Singapore / UAE), IIM Calcutta (India), Vienna University (Austria), Tel Aviv University (Israel), and University of Otago (New Zealand) (Please note that I only included MBA programs, and excluded Masters in Science degrees). Quikr (India): IIM Calcutta.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. This doesn’t mean just more technology stuff, though we’ll get that. Over the last half a century, Silicon Valley has grown into the leading technology and innovation cluster for the United States and the world.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2017

With industries from banking to transportation being transformed and, in some instances, undermined by new business models and technology, executives are smart to wonder, “Are we next?” Not, ‘what's the technology?’ In GE, technology used to be our lead, and instead we reframed that and started with the customer.”

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2018

Funding is crucial for improving technology, hiring the right people, and launching a comprehensive marketing strategy to get a foothold in the market. However, sourcing enough money to start your new venture can be difficult. Make sure to use the latest automation and software technologies wherever makes sense.

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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. Some, such as Chinese mobile company Xiaomi, were founded less than five years ago while others such as Good Technology have been around for more than a decade.

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Technical Review Valuation Venture Capital Investment Bankers 63

thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

I overviewed demographic and economic trends globally and outlined the opportunity for technology companies to access growth in the emerging markets. While many early movers have retreated from India due to low price points, the attractiveness of this user base (and engagement of that user base) is undeniable at this point.

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thebarefootvc

JUNE 15, 2014

Coupled with the rise of technology and ability to access more data points beyond the traditional FICO credit score, new models of lending have emerged, some even utilizing the concept of social lending (via Facebook or other online groups) to create peer-to-peer lending platforms.

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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 venture capital landscape in Asia is varied and complex, as most of the active firms on the continent are concentrated in just a few areas.

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Asia Silicon Valley India Term Sheet 132

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

The last 40 years have seen an explosive adoption of new technologies (social media, telecom, life sciences, etc.) Not only are the number of new technologies and entrants growing, but also increasing is the rate at which technology is disrupting existing companies. Figure 1 : Five technology revolutions source: Carlota Perez.

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Silicon Valley Venture Capital United States Technical Review 120

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. Again, go where the geeks are.

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Reid Hoffman

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

At this point, it’s clear that we must take a blitzscaling approach to funding, developing, and scaling both the existing technologies and new innovations that will allow us to cut greenhouse gas emissions fast enough to avert looming planetary disaster. billion a year to $40 billion a year; venture capital funding from $13.6

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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.

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Technical Review Venture Capital India Startup 93

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.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

A midst a 72% decline in funds raised by Israeli venture capital funds in 2009, Battery Ventures announced the completion of its new fund, BV-9, totaling $750 million. This is one of the largest funds raised in the first quarter of 2010 as VC funds struggle to raise money due to poor performance and low liquidity.

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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. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. on a global scale. OrangeScape.

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Austin Startup

JULY 14, 2017

Today, Silicon Valley took the Great Equalizer and established a system of inequality where only white male faces are prominently displayed in “tech media”, VC firms exclude African-Americans and sexually harass women tech entrepreneurs and we also see Silicon Valley firms talking up some “lack of pipeline” bullcrap.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Every startup faces multiple choices and decisions when it comes to technology. Girls in Tech. Ad Serving Technology. Analytics review â?? VC & Startup Resources.

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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.

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Technical Review India Mobile Hockey Stick 110

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 9, 2010

In fact, I just did a case study on Coastal Contacts , a $150 million e-commerce company that sells contact lenses online and has built itself up largely by using inventory financing as opposed to venture capital and equity financing. Some examples include Flipkart and Redbus in India, and Freshdiet in the US.

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Silicon Valley Malaysia India China 117

Cracking the Code

JULY 5, 2016

Making an acqui-hire successful If successfully executed, combining resources from an acqui-hire will save years of work while broadening the technical and talent bench. “I was empowered to continue doing what I had been doing, but with a much larger budget and support from a team that shared my same passion.“

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Italy Technical Review Germany Poland 59

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

From what I have seen, this is one of the few companies that can cross the elusive billion dollar mark in due course. Then Prashant Singh from Bangalore, India, discussed Statisco Economic Analytics , a risk management technology for managing company balance sheets, interfacing with their ERP systems.

North Carolina 116

North Carolina San Diego Entrepreneur Balance Sheet 116

thebarefootvc

MAY 13, 2017

A couple of weeks ago I spoke at a conference entitled “Business of Blockchains” that the MIT Technology Review and MIT Media Lab organized in Cambridge. The core of the talk was to explain how decentralized technology is the next generation of what we saw develop with the internet. Disruptors are dismissed until they aren’t.

Finance 53

Finance Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Internet 53

K9 Ventures

JUNE 5, 2015

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. Scaling venture capital breaks it. Venture capital is, and should remain, a boutique industry (See The Venture Boutique , blog post from 2008).

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Seed Stage Venture Capital Early Stage Valuation 48

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 24, 2012

It took me some time to figure out a title and I eventually settled for “Building European Champions” as the region has proven its ability to generate very successful venture outcomes and will continue to be the birthplace of many successful technology companies. Why Eastern Europe? in GE, 1.3 in Brazil and 0.8

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Czech Republic Russia San Jose Europe 99

Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

What’s even more remarkable is that the amount of financing poured into private cloud companies dwarfed the amount raised by public cloud companies in 2021, as hedge funds like Coatue, Tiger and Dragoneer are turning their eyes to the private tech markets. Israel also has the largest number of unicorns per capita, with 2.9

Global 62

Global Europe Software Review 62

thebarefootvc

JULY 13, 2017

A couple of weeks ago I spoke at a conference entitled “Business of Blockchains” that the MIT Technology Review and MIT Media Lab organized in Cambridge. The core of the talk was to explain how decentralized technology is the next generation of what we saw develop with the internet. Disruptors are dismissed until they aren’t.

Finance 40

Finance Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Internet 40

Life Beyond Code

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

The latter is the domain of venture capital, but the former is what we need to build the foundation for Capitalism 2.0 I would enthusiastically recommend Sramana’s 1M/1M program for first time entrepreneurs and technical founders who need help with understanding other aspects of running a business.”.

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Programming Silicon Valley Bootstrapping Technical Review 116

online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Technology. This service is temporary unavailable due to system maintenance. Loading… Tech. Personal Technology. TECHNOLOGY. more in Tech. 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. My Journal.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Yes, venture capital is very good for scaling businesses rapidly. I personally have nothing against venture capital. Sramana Mitra is a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley. In that case, why bother wasting time trying to raise money right now? Kir Devries. Photo by takatuka.

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