ReadWriteStart

MAY 9, 2013

In our hyper-competitive global economy, startups are just as likely to find their first customers in Paris, France, as in Paris, Texas. In a 2007 report, the Council on Competitiveness quoted a USA Today survey revealing that, “ of venture-backed software startups created since 1999, nearly 40% have employees outside the United States.”.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

“Rare is the business that has a formal disaster plan, let alone one that covers a global Black Swan event.” At the same time, the company contained its operating costs and came out of the recession stronger, bigger, and more profitable than it had been in 1999. That crisis saw a global spending decrease of 9%, with U.S.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Speakers: - Bob Dahl, HBS Alumni Angel, formerly head of Global Healthcare for the Carlyle Group. David Teten, Partner, ff Venture Capital ; Chairman, HBS Alumni Angels of Greater New York. Karen Bantuveris, Founder and CEO of VolunteerSpot. Karen Bantuveris, CEO of VolunteerSpot ( ff VC and angel-backed startup with 2.5m

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 29, 2011

This is a guest post by Marc Andreessen, co-founder and General Partner of Andreessen Horowitz. Undersecretary for International Affairs and then Deputy Treasury Secretary for President Clinton between 1993 and 1999. Became US Treasury Secretary in 1999. President of Harvard from 2001 to 2006.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Andreessen Horowitz is telling entrepreneurs it prefers situations where the founders have controlling stakes, reckoning that theyll be better able to resist outside distraction and focus on making great products. One of its champions includes Jason Goldberg, the co-founder and CEO of online design retailer Fab.com Inc.,

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

My partner Ross Kimbarovsky and I wanted to help people from around the world access creative talent and help creative from around the world find new talent. For creatives, it is a global stage for creativity where title and experience don’t matter. In January of 1999, I co-founded a marketing agency with a former boss.

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Ben's Blog

JULY 24, 2011

This is a guest post by Jeff Jordan, General Partner of Andreessen Horowitz. They were joined by a third co-founder, Nathan Blecharczyk, who brought programming expertise. The website is clean and very intuitive—not surprising, I guess, when two of the founders are designers. Talk about a business with humble roots.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In 1999, Jack Ma created Alibaba , a Chinese-based B2B marketplace for connecting small and medium enterprise with potential export opportunities. We estimate that the global GMV for ride sharing was over $100B in 2018 (including Uber, Didi, Grab, Lyft, Yandex, etc) and still growing handsomely.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

And now all of a sudden you have got this global market of all these early adopters that have smartphones connected to the Internet, and they can just pick up their things and run with them. Number one is, a lot of companies need to actually educate their customers or their partners, and a lot of that has to happen online.

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