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Congratulations to Upwork

A Crowded Space

I remember when I made that first flight out to San Francisco from Boston to meet the team in 2004, the company was down to its last $20K in the bank. Early on, we would routinely get emails and chats from freelancers in Russia, Ukraine, India, Bangladesh, and the Philippines expressing tremendous thanks.

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Boosting the French Tech Ecosystem

Cracking the Code

Many start-ups are going through ups and downs and this change would both incentivize them to hire more when things are going well and lay off less people in the downturns Examples from other countries: Russia reduced IT companies’ social contributions from 30% to 14% until the end of year 2017 2.

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Excellent Analytics Tips #20: Measuring Digital "Brand Strength"

Occam's Razor

The graph shows the change over time, starting in Jan 2004. If I were doing this analysis in Russia I'd be using Yandex, in China I'd use Baidu, etc. So… Step 5: Click on the tab that reads "Growth relative to the Shopping category" and boom! This is a lot more interesting. This is just data from Google.com.

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Why Venture Capitalists Are Investing in International Startups

David Teten

According to the NVCA 2017 Yearbook , in 2004, 77% of global VC fundraising went to US VCs, and 85% of global VC dollars went to US startups. In addition, HOF has backed 10 companies with roots in Canada, China, Estonia, Finland, India, Germany, Denmark and Russia. Source: NVCA, Pitchbook.

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Why Venture Capitalists Are Investing in International Startups

David Teten

According to the NVCA 2017 Yearbook , in 2004, 77% of global VC fundraising went to US VCs, and 85% of global VC dollars went to US startups. In addition, HOF has backed 10 companies with roots in Canada, China, Estonia, Finland, India, Germany, Denmark and Russia. Source: NVCA, Pitchbook.

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The iconic VC-Backed founders are all White & Asian men. So why invest in diversity?

David Teten

based founders, 35 were white* American; four were white immigrant/first generation, from France, Ukraine, Russia and Iran; and four were Indian immigrant/first generation. We reviewed CB Insights’ global list of “40 of the Best VC Bets of all Time.” All of the 40 companies’ 92 founders were male. Of the 43 U.S.-based

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Y Combinator's First Batch: Where Are They Now?

thenextweb.com

Chris had been working on creating a better desktop search since early 2004, knowing that no existing solutions were any good. Latin America. Middle East. Y Combinator’s first batch: where are they now? 5th August 2012 by Christopher Jackson. From small seeds grow mighty oaks.