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Investing Outside The Bay Area

Haystack

More recently, as I sit as a Venture Partner at Lightspeed , their franchise model across Israel, India, and China lends even more credence to the fact that consumer-level and application-grade innovation now knows no geographical boundaries. On the ground, I am seeing more hybrid solutions.

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How Venture Capitalists and Government Can Promote Entrepreneurship

David Teten

Organizations like Worldwide Investor Network and the US-Israel Business Council are helpful in this area. A team in California is already creating a offshore seastead for non-US citizens who want to build companies in the US. What other policy initiatives should the venture community be working on?

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Startup America – Dead On Arrival

Steve Blank

It should address not only the creation of new jobs, but also the continued hemorrhaging of jobs and entire strategic industries offshore. As they can’t provide the scale to attract venture capital, they fund their businesses via friends/family or small business loans. Filed under: Technology , Venture Capital.

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Why International Startups Love NY, and NY VCs Love International Startups

David Teten

Olivier Mougenot, Investment Director, NUMA Paris , points out if you start with an offshore tech team, it’s easier and cheaper to expand it than start a new office from scratch. ” The role model for most of the international innovation communities I meet is Israel, the “ startup nation ”. Founders’ determination.