Growthink Blog

AUGUST 29, 2010

By way of anecdote, from the time Dave Lavinsky and I founded Growthink in 1999 through 2008, more than 95% of our firm’s clients and investors were U.S. Since the great “financial crisis” of 2008-2009, the firm’s clientele – really without us even trying – has becoming increasingly global. exports in 2008. exports in 2008.

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Version One Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2019

We initially launched in Germany before expanding into the UK and France, and then sold the company to our North American competitor AbeBooks in 2001. My co-founder Hannes Blum and I joined the AbeBooks HQ and co-led the company for many years until we sold it to Amazon in 2008.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Gilt Groupe from France and Xing from Germany are good examples. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. Chicago has even produced one of the most talked about companies in recent times: Groupon. We are also seeing significant companies come out of Europe. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

He is an active angel with many successful angel investments including: Rent.com, (purchased by Ebay in 2005 for $415 million), Golfnow.com (purchased by Comcast in June 2008), and Lifelock (lead investors include Bessemer Venture Partners and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers). and Tweetdeck (purchased by Twitter in June 2011).

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Waze, which was founded in 2008, has more than 7 million users in the United States, Italy, France, Spain and Israel. Waze’s free mobile application provides a social network where drivers interact, reporting on road conditions. Pluristem Therapeutics Ltd.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 11, 2018

Introduced in 2008, by 2015 the mobile app market was generating $30 billion annually. A study of 96 developed and developing economies conducted between 2008 and 2011 found that a 10 percent market shift from 2G to 3G in a given country yielded a GDP increase of 0.15 4G: Empowering Mobile Broadband Applications.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2016

Key slides showed that world growth was dictated much more by China than US since 2008 and therefore is China catches a cold we all get sick. I only know of one great political show on television that takes on these issues in a thoughtful and intelligent way with political analysts who are respectful and debate the issues without shouting.

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Babbling VC

AUGUST 10, 2011

I am seriously babbling like everyone else did in 2001, 2008 and now again in 2011. At the same time, especially in Germany, I am happy to see a bunch of really cool companies turning into international players. Nevertheless, I will stop right there. This is nothing new. But better they will be! .

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Agile VC

JUNE 24, 2014

The Microsoft’s, Google’s, Facebook’s, and other startup champions have earned their success just as Brazil, Italy, Germany, and other World Cup Champions have. Every four years the whole world gets to celebrate this great game and our shared passion for it with the World Cup.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 8, 2011

In 2008, MyHeritage.com acquired Kindo.com , a family social networking site from London. In 2010, MyHeritage.com acquired OSN (Verwandt.de) , a family social networking popular in Europe that was operating from Germany. Also in 2010, MyHeritage.com acquired the Dutch family network ZOOOF.com.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 3, 2012

Remember 2008/2009? While I had just finished an approximately year long quest to see as many design museums as possible — in New York, Miami, Atlanta, London, and Essen, Germany — Derek had just visited New York City and experienced some pop-up retail stores. So we started in 2009 with the goal of creating a brick-and-mortar museum.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

My Web Design Company As a part of my masters degree, I did research for two summers in Germany. While in Germany, I decided to start a site advertising website design for $500 per website. I was able to design 2 or 3 websites while in Germany (with one being a more advanced $1,300 website) and was able to eat.

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Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 21, 2020

But on August 19th, Germany recorded 7 deaths, Italy had 7, the U.K. As vice president from 2008 to 2016, Joe Biden played key roles in expanding healthcare to 20 million Americans and creating the conditions for 75 straight months of job expansion. The pandemic is global, and countries everywhere have suffered great losses.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I’ve always respected his views) and Paul Jozefak , a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures). Competitors: OneRiot , Topsy , Crowdeye , Twitter Summize.

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Jeff Hilimire

AUGUST 18, 2014

It’s been over three weeks since my last blog post which I think is some kind of record since I started this blog in 2008. Then a few days after we got back, I went to a massive game conference ( Gamescom ) in Cologne, Germany. Where have I been? It was FREAKING AMAZING.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 24, 2011

Facebook today announced partnerships with SupersonicAds from the United Kingdom and Deal United from Germany to let European users buy magazine subscriptions, online movie rentals, and more to earn Facebook’s virtual currency. The company raised $36 million to date including this round. Globes ].

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

The pace of SaaS company creation in Europe is growing even faster, up from 200 companies in 2008-10 to 670 in 2014-16. From a geographic standpoint, the UK and Israel lead the pack with 20 companies each, followed by France with 18 and Germany with 8. Our investments in the space have followed suit. We’ve invested $2.3B

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

Tuesday, February 26, 2008. Prior to founding the brewery, Dan spent five years studying beer in Germany and not the way most college students partake in this particular study. ▼ 2008. (14). ProfessorVC. The last blogger in Silicon Valley. 4 Lessons of Entrepreneurship. For golfers, Ben Hogans Five Lessons is a classic.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 17, 2010

Africa Cape Town, South Africa [link] Asia Tokyo, Japan [link] Europe Barcelona, Spain [link] Birmingham, UK [link] Bucharest, Romania [link] Budapest, Hungary [link] Cambridge, UK [link] Copenhagen, Denmark [link] Delft, Netherlands [link] Edinburgh, Scotland [link] Gothenburg, Sweden [link] London, UK [link] Madrid, Spain [link] Munich, Germany [link] (..)

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Altgate

JANUARY 1, 2009

  I was just looking at the 2008 Google Analytics data for Altgate.  Overall, 2008 was a great year of growth in traffic.    It is an amazing tool.    I wish I had installed it when I first created this blog, but alas I didn't so I only have data starting in February of last year. 

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 29, 2016

The original cuckoo clock was created in the 17th century in the Black Forest region of Bavaria, Germany. As a small business startup back in 2008, we knew we needed a name that stood out, to differentiate ourselves. The name also had to represent confidence (because in 2008 there wasn’t a lot of that going around).

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VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2010

Long story short, I ended up spending a year and a half in China from 2008 to 2010 and now I’m hard at work with BizMe2. Hanover city in Germany for example, lives solely on conferences! The team is very special, and the technology is robust, as it is borrowed from Softier which raised $25 million in VC funding.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JULY 26, 2011

My Blogging Experience Since 2008, I’ve been actively blogging and have been having a decent level of success. I LOVE neurobiology, physiology and all of those kinds of subjects (yes, I’m a nerd). However, there was a significant problem – I HATED the research (or I thought I did). By blogging of course.

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Pascal's View

JULY 20, 2008

According to an April 2008 article in The Guardian : “Over the next four years he [Pickens] intends to erect 2,700 turbines across 200,000 acres of the Texan panhandle. And compared to the $700 billion we spend on foreign oil every year, it’s a bargain.”

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2009

Today we are number three in Germany, starting now our internationalization. Under the laughter of several people we started coding and presented some months later our new, unique system, which is the most multifunctional marketplace worldwide. We were learning a lot from our members.

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