Kodorra

JANUARY 4, 2019

Simply put, it’s a process of tokenizing securities (company stocks, bonds or assets like real estate). Cross-border investment may also be challenging because different countries do have different securities regulations in place, to protect their citizens, especially from dodgy offshore investment schemes.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2013

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. The first wave of startups began when R&D centers and universities began to provide the technology and seed capital for new startups that were spin-outs or spin-offs. All the usual caveats apply.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2013

For the past 5 years or so Google, Facebook and a handful of tech industry giants have been quietly buying scores of early-stage startups for their talent. A couple of tech giants throw millions around in either cash (for which they have hoards) or part with some publicly traded stock. Go do a startup. Startup Advice'

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 28, 2011

Often known as Startup Camps. Social media will create a virtual advertising stock market of the future. A live stock exchange of media buying. It’s the one thing that can’t be outsourced, offshored or automated. The 80’s and 90’s were the great periods of so called ‘ think tanks’. They are now changing into ‘Do Tanks’.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

The second time, on the show The Doctors, she agreed to give away her entire stock of inventory to the audience for free, and was unable to make meaningful sales. She is looking to move production offshore where costs will drop to $11.36, but has not done so yet. Her production costs are $30 and she is selling the product for $32.50

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

How would one set up such a startup to eventually raise capital from outside VCs, who will be wary of ‘dead equity’ (i.e., The most important thing to consider is that launching a startup is usually a personal endeavor. First, the founders are their startup and define the company it will become. What are the timelines?

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Interestingly, we’ve won a number of deals by being the not–offshore alternative. Most people I know have had extremely bad experiences with offshore development. I’m working with a friend who’s got a Silicon Valley startup which made the mistake of hiring a Romanian development team.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Interestingly, we’ve won a number of deals by being the not-offshore alternative. Most people I know have had extremely bad experiences with offshore development. I’m working with a friend who’s got a Silicon Valley startup which made the mistake of hiring a Romanian development team.

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Pascal's View

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

Because reports like this stand in the way of financial market manipulation and drive home the point that not all financial innovation is good and that stocks are not fungible commodities. are not in equilibrium, and we are seeing this proven by the increasingly robust and growing offshore markets for new listings.

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View from Seed

APRIL 20, 2022

A lot of thoughtful people have weighed in on whether this is a “buy the dip” moment for startups and public tech companies, or rather, the cusp of a sustained downturn. Offshoring is going in reverse, particularly for strategically important industries like semiconductors or communications equipment.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Problem was, I seemed to suck at the whole startup thing. Rather, I didn’t have anyone around me familiar enough with startups to tell me that I was doing it all wrong. One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going.

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BeyondVC

SEPTEMBER 20, 2006

I remember 2 years ago the brouhaha over globalization and how every startup needed to adapt or it would die. I truly am a fervent believer in globalization and how offshoring some development work can make a ton of sense from a cost and time advantage (24×7). We cannot fall behind here as it is one of our most important assets.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Optimizing profit above else led to wholesale offshoring of manufacturing and entire industries in order to lower costs. Driven by economic theory from the Chicago School of Economics, its premise is that free markets best allocate resources in an economy and that minimal, or even no, government intervention is best for economic prosperity.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2018

That knowledge gap hampers efforts to staff and stock the stadium appropriately. The other half have a mix of data sources, which inevitably include an offshore SQL database (or ten) managed by an external vendor whom no one can track down. Slow adoption but soaring interest.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 2, 2016

They get to have “long-term capital gains” taxes which are much lower than short-term capital gains taxes paid by people who have stock options or income taxes paid to workers. That employee was given “stock options,” which pay the exact same rate of taxes as income. They get huge tax breaks for doing so.

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