Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2015

Even in this age of globalization and virtualization, the geographic area where you choose to live and work can still make or break your startup business. Also, investors from the super-hubs (Silicon Valley, New York, or Boston), won’t assume anyone outside their domain has the savvy and resources to make it happen.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 20, 2013

The newest accelerator, based in New York City, is called the R/GA Connected Devices Accelerator. R/GA is part of Interpublic Group of Companies, one of four global ad holding companies, and is the most award-winning agency in the digital world today. s Superman to 2006?s s Nike+ platform to 2010?s

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

This is another joint event between HBS Angels of NY and the HBS Club of New York. As well as twenty-three years at Goldman Sachs, Mr. Savage worked as the head of New York Foreign Exchange trading for Lehman Brothers and as a Director of Proprietary Trading at Bank of America Securities.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

2006) [iii]. The Geography of Successful and Unsuccessful Venture Capital Expansion ” that the best performing VC funds are based in the major venture centers (Silicon Valley, Boston, and the New York area), but their best investments are outside of those geographies. Corporate Financier, October 2006. [iv] 2009) [ii].

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 2, 2020

The Israeli tech ecosystem has made its mark globally since its early days somewhere in the 1990s. What’s less discussed, is that Israel also, has one of the highest number of unicorns, aka privately owned startups worth more than $1 billion, globally. Billion by Sandisk in 2006, etc. billion raised in 2019 and $9.9

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Up and Running

AUGUST 6, 2014

Currently this structure is available in Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington D.C., Maryland was the first U.S. state to adopt this structure in 2010.

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Brandanew

APRIL 22, 2016

Based in Israel, Outbrain has been around since 2006 solely focuses on solving the content discovery problem for publishers. Outbrain can reach a global audience of over 557M unique people per month, making over 200B recommendations to consumers monthly. 8 Platforms to Supercharge your Content Marketing with Paid Advertising.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

In 2006, Kristin Groos Richmond and Kirsten Saenz Tobey founded Revolution Foods to help ensure quality food access for all children across the nation. Together, they founded Revolution Foods in 2006. I co-founded Revolution Foods with Kirsten Tobey in 2006 to ensure quality food access for all children across the nation.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Israel’s ranking in the’s Global Competitiveness Report 2010-2011 increased to 24th place from 27th the year before. The Global Competitiveness Index is based on 12 pillars of competitiveness, which together provide a comprehensive picture of the competitiveness landscape in 139 economies around the world at all stages of development.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 22, 2010

Like other industries -- from publishing to automobiles -- entrepreneurship is in the process of being disrupted by globalization. The cost of creating new companies is falling rapidly, and access to markets, distribution, and information is within the reach of anyone with an Internet connection.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 5, 2019

The world is slowing turning into a global village and the level of telecommunication technology is escalating daily. The company has been in operation since the year 2000 with its headquarters in New York City. It is obvious that the telecommunication industry is not becoming extinct anytime soon. And GTE Corp.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Cell Buddy will be the world’s first Mobile Virtual Global Operator (MVGO). Our subscribers will continue to use their regular provider at home, however while travelling they will seamlessly roam onto the Cell Buddy Global Network. FanGager is a US company, based in New York. ClarityRay - Company Website.

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

Inside Twitter’s New San Francisco Headquarters [PICS]. In January 2006, Google acquired advertising company dMarc Broadcasting for $102 million. Long ago in October 2006 Google bought YouTube for a shocking $1.65 In January 2006, Google acquired advertising company dMarc Broadcasting for $102 million. DoubleClick.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2014

A global rethinking of economic growth amid mounting environmental concerns. That’s up from 89 percent five years ago and 85 percent ten years ago, reports the New York Times. And good economic news for all came with the release of the latest U.S. A recent paper by New York Fed economists Richard Deitz and Jaison R.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

We just announced the expansion of our fund and I wanted to share with you the good news! New Capital Earmarked for Global High-Growth Investments LARCHMONT, N.Y., About Bessemer Venture Partners: Bessemer Venture Partners is a global investment group with offices in Silicon Valley, Boston, New York, Mumbai, and Tel Aviv.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 10, 2012

When we started TechStars in 2006, one of our premises was to help build a strong startup community in Boulder. Several years ago David Cohen , Jason Mendelson , and I started talking about the idea that the same principles of an accelerator model could apply to specific vertical markets or companies.

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David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

While fundraising of US VCs has dropped slowly as a percentage of global limited partner allocations over the last decade, non-US startups are receiving a more rapidly increasing percentage of that money. markets: New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Denver, San Francisco and Silicon Valley. Source: NVCA, Pitchbook.

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David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

While fundraising of US VCs has dropped slowly as a percentage of global limited partner allocations over the last decade, non-US startups are receiving a more rapidly increasing percentage of that money. markets: New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Denver, San Francisco and Silicon Valley. Source: NVCA, Pitchbook.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Loading… New York. And companies that didnt survive might have closed their doors for reasons other than failure, for example, getting acquired or the founders moving on to new projects. Opinion: Noonan: The Romney Campaign Needs a New CEO. Globaloney: Globalization Challenged. New Hampshire.

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David Teten

MAY 16, 2011

Joe Chernesky, Vice President and General Manager of Global Licensing Sales, Intellectual Ventures. He joined Oversee in 2006 as Executive Vice President respon sible for DomainSponsor, the company’s industry-leading traffic monetization business. Location: Pillsbury Winthrop, 1540 Broadway, New York at 45th Street.

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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. Susan Balloch, Managing Director, Golden Seeds; formerly Executive Director and Principal, The Blackstone Group.

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mashable.com

JULY 10, 2012

remarketing is a new technique?! i think it was new about 8 or 10 years ago. it was what the networks were selling before ‘behavioral’ got hot in 2006. Mashable’s 20 million unique visitors and 6 million social media followers have become one of the most engaged online news communities. Matt Gentile.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

As a result, tech-sector employment has declined as a percent of the workforce, from 11% in 2006–2008 to 9% in 2013. For the first time in history there are Israeli companies scaling up successfully as global market leaders, and the ecosystem is evolving to support them. That’s disappointing for a country with so much potential.

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 20, 2011

"You can’t start a fire worrying about your little world falling apart" – Bruce Springsteen The financial panic of 1873, which set off a severe nationwide economic depression that lasted for 6 years, included The New York Stock Exchange closing for 10 days, 89 of the country's 364 railroads going bankrupt, and unemployment as high as 14%.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 29, 2011

President of Harvard from 2001 to 2006. Third, Larry’s deep insight into global economics and geopolitics will be highly useful to our companies that intend to expand globally—which is to say, all of them. Intimately involved in resolving major macroeconomic crises in Mexico, Russia, and elsewhere.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Today, The Bean has approximately 350 company-owned stores, with locations in Southern California, Las Vegas, Honolulu, New York City and Southeast Asia. Darius Bikoff, who distributed his enhanced drinks to health food stores, independent retailers and mom-and-pop stores in the New York area. Wrigley Company.

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BeyondVC

MARCH 4, 2009

I have written a few post about the future of television advertising ( 10/2004 , 11/2006 , and 12/2006 ).    Today, there is a great article on the front page of the New York Times business section discussing Cablevision's launch of targeted commercials.  Now we’ve got it in 500,000 households.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 29, 2012

A global pool of creativity has always existed, but technology has enabled the creators to find new access to clients, new channels for sales, new tools for self-marketing, and new opportunities to find audiences without the interference of the traditional gate-keepers.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

Of course articles like these are going to inflame people because not everybody who is running their own business (or aspires to) wants to believe that you need to go all out to compete and win on a global scale. But … global tech does require an absolute, singular commitment level. Our first big institutional round was $16.5

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 28, 2015

It’s useful to remember that in 2009 there was some success starting in the current cycle, but we were on the tail end of the global financial crisis, the word “entrepreneur” hadn’t become part of the overall American lexicon (the White House still called things “small businesses”), and Uber was three guys and an idea.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

I practice Nichiren Daishonin Buddhism as the tool of global peace movement through the SGI organisation, changing my karma and doing something what is called ‘the human revolution’ I am one of the leaders in SGI Serbia. I returned to Belgrade in 2006 and my then boss dragged me into a watch shop.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 23, 2010

Groupon was so successful in drawing local customers in such markets as Chicago, a national promotion by the Gap last summer drew $11 million in revenue on one day and temporarily shut down Groupon’s server, the New York Times reported. Groupon is not the only success story for Lefkofsky and Keywell.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 12, 2007

Bessemer was also heavily represented with David Cowan , managing partner and co-founder of VeriSign ( see his post about the event ), Rob Stavis , BVP’s New York-based managing partner who led our investment in Skype, Byron Deeter , partner and founder of Trigo and our COO/managing partner Ed Colloton. ► 2006. (7).

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Campus Entrepreneurship

JUNE 19, 2012

She says it does not pay what she or her mother expected, and it is far from the New York City address she dreamed of having. A Rutgers University study this spring of 444 graduates who received bachelor’s degrees from 2006 to 2011 found that 51% were working full time. Her job search lasted eight months.

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Austin Startup

MAY 14, 2019

One of the first early coworking spaces (although the term “coworking” wasn’t used yet) was called 116 West Houston in New York City. Source: NetworkWorld) After a few similar spaces opened in 2005 and 2006, the public familiarity with coworking started to grow. If you put up walls, there’s no point. How does coworking work?

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

She is a globally recognized expert on strategy, innovation and growth, and also the author of a fairly new book called Seeing Around Corners: How to spot inflection points in business before they happen. John Jantsch: Hello and welcome to another episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast. This is John Jantsch.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

While the global financial crash of 2008 and the resulting Great Recession initially slowed job growth in Silicon Valley, the meteoric rise of smart phones and social media helped the tech industry as a whole to power ahead despite the near collapse of the global economy. A Variation on the Global Economic Crash of 2008?

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