Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

Always-on connectivity of mobile (164m US smartphone users). When you think about the trends of faster-growing startups due to social networking, credit card enable and mobile first consumers – the reality is that many startups are becoming very large financially before needing to go public. Where are we today? and hasn’t abated.

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Globalization is the most significant challenge facing multinational firms today, especially in the emerging markets of Russia, Brazil, China, and Mexico. However, global businesses evaluate a variety of considerations before expanding their operations into a new market. Emerging Markets As The Pocket Full Of Potential.

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thebarefootvc

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

The combination of mobile technology, sensors, robotics, and data analytics will create businesses that can empower billions of people around the world through decentralized and distributed networks where the “middlemen” are no longer required. The 2008 financial crisis is still being felt in this country. Globally, there are 2.5

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Entrepreneurs now can think globally about the opportunity, from day one but start locally. This approach, popularly known as “glocalization,” means you design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market you plan to attack. The world is a now single market, both homogeneous and heterogeneous.

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Cracking the Code

MAY 15, 2008

Thursday, May 15, 2008. Churchill Club 2008 Top 10 Tech Trends. The top 10 trends this year were around the emergence of mobile platforms (thanks Apple for the iPhone!), Global warming, by accentuating drought and melting glaciers, will have a key impact on water resources distribution and will increase the unbalance.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 19, 2019

It was in the year 2008, after a global recession hit the world, that the first startup revolution began to take shape. We offer mobile payment solutions to over 7 million merchants and allow consumers to make seamless mobile payments from Cards, Bank Accounts, and Digital Credit, among others.

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thebarefootvc

JUNE 15, 2014

Since I wrote that post, millions more entrepreneurs have launched their businesses globally. Thanks to the Web and mobile connectivity, more and more people have access to online resources for education and information – the combination of on-the-ground expertise and this access to global information is creating a revolution.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

A bout 50,000 visitors from 200 countries are expected to attend the 2010 GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week, starting tomorrow February 15th. Green: low-energy consuming phones and products for using the mobile as an energy monitoring device in the house. Cost control & mobile least cost routing implementation.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

This was the year that the promise of technology to truly change the world and empower individuals (the reason I entered the tech world in 1994) reached global scale. In India, two female journalists launched a mobile app to allow women to report harrassment and abuse, an issue in their hometown of Delhi and throughout the world.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 26, 2013

For us, the opportunity is not about taking market share from other players, it’s really about expanding the awareness of online work and hiring these virtual global teams as an alternative to traditional way of recruiting or building a company,” he said. Of those 350 freelancers I’d guess we have between 40 and 50 countries represented.”.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

By 2008 I had gotten more serious about championing companies through our investment process. It was September 2008. The following is a 2-week graph of the end-of-week price of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) in Autumn 2008. I’m long Mobile. The market had tanked. Lehman Brothers had filed for bankruptcy.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Which brings me back to your mobile phones. Your time at ESADE has trained you to become a global business leader. Just look at the disruptive challenges that businesses face today– globalization, China as a manufacturer, China as a consumer, the Internet, and a steady stream of new startups. Apple owned 0%.

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Brandanew

DECEMBER 2, 2015

After 2008, consumers didn’t necessarily want to be seen with flashy brand logos. 2 Transmedia Storytelling will continue on the mobile ( Short, responsive, fun!). Mobile content saw a major consumption hike to cross 50% in 2014. Mobile content saw a major consumption hike to cross 50% in 2014.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Eventually, the company was led to global dominance by Alfred P. Forbes, Shopify, and Gillette are among the clients who have learned how FUBU developed a successful global brand. In 2009, they were almost out of cash and building a prototype for a service that would send text messages to any mobile device.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Kabam, the mobile gaming company, hit a major stumbling block in its early days when its financing was lost due to the 2008 financial collapse. Along the way, the company faced challenges while scaling and going global, and she’ll touch on those, too. It not only survived but was sold nine years later for $1Billion.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The project was a little unexpected – creating customer cereal boxes called Obama-Os and Cap’n McCains, timely for the 2008 elections. Thanks to Keith Terrell, Backpacks Global ! #14- He speculated that upwardly mobile college graduates could be interested in a product or service that was superior to 7-11. 14- Polaroid.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

billion in 2008 and $8.8 billion in 2007, as investors worldwide tightened their belts in the wake of the global financial crisis. billion, 7 percent below 2008 levels ($2.74 The average deal size in 2009 was $40 million, an increase of 21 percent from $33 million in 2008. Foreign direct investment in Israel reached $3.8

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

Take a look at some of the emails between us from 2010: We were attending NYU from 2008–2012. During that time, we watched the first wave of mobile apps take off — Foursquare, GroupOn, Instagram, Twitter, etc. We look for projects and protocols that can rethink major classes of global commerce. We were infatuated with tech.

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thebarefootvc

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

The combination of mobile technology, sensors, robotics, and data analytics will create businesses that can empower billions of people around the world through decentralized and distributed networks where the “middlemen” are no longer required. The 2008 financial crisis is still being felt in this country. Globally, there are 2.5

Kenya 40

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

Outsourcing is spreading at a frantic pace today with a global footprint and players like oDesk and eLance have made it very easy for companies to connect with outsourcing vendors. The technology has been highly acclaimed in the mobile device community as a way to let users type in multiple, especially non-Latin, languages.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 5, 2011

Next, Douglas Villalobos from Costa Rica pitched GeoInvenio, a mobile application development platform. In addition, I asked him to do a competitive analysis on the pricing models of the various mobile app platforms and come back to me with both sets of market data, namely, customer research and competitive analysis. GeoInvenio.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 14, 2010

Mytopia was funded by SK telecom ventures Innovation Fund, Benhamou Global Ventures and private investors. Launched in 2008 by brother and sister Guy and Galia Ben Artzi, Mytopia offered a casual games community, where users can play against each other in real time. by midday in London today to ?0.50, 0.50, giving a market cap of ?174

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Remember the economic crisis of 2008? This eventually serves as the much-needed fuel for startups that want to make their footprints globally. But if we give a closer look at the 2008 crisis. Tuhin Bhatt is a co-founder of Intelivita , a leading web and mobile app development company with offices in the UK and India.

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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. Not anymore.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

a leading Israeli provider of highly integrated network processors optimized for mobile backhaul, 3G and 4G wireless and wireline broadband networks. Pohang Iron and Steel Company, Korea’s fifth largest conglomerate also known as Posco, joined Israel’s Global Enterprise R&D Cooperation Framework. billion, of which $2.5

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

In the first post in this three part series I described why I believe the VC market froze between September 2008 – April 2009. The IMF just raised its global growth forecast from 2.5% It is also a result of pent-up demand. In the following post I argue that this increased pace may be temporary.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 11, 2018

3G emerged from the growth of the internet during the 1990s , which created a demand for mobile phones that could support both SMS texting and multimedia MMS transmission of image, sound and video files. One economic outgrowth of 3G was the explosion of the mobile app market. 4G: Empowering Mobile Broadband Applications.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 4, 2017

The 2008 financial crisis was still fresh on our minds and people were more careful when taking each business step. European cities like Berlin, Stockholm, or Amsterdam were on the list of the top locations for tech startups in the global Startup Ecosystem Report 2017. He is also interested in digital marketing and tech startups.

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thebarefootvc

JUNE 15, 2014

Since I wrote that post, millions more entrepreneurs have launched their businesses globally. Thanks to the Web and mobile connectivity, more and more people have access to online resources for education and information – the combination of on-the-ground expertise and this access to global information is creating a revolution.

Africa 40

Africa India Bangladesh United States 40

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 1, 2011

At today's session, first up, Ramkumar RS from Chennai, India, presented Mango DVM , an innovative solution to turn vendors of illegal, grey market music to legal distributors using a combination of mobile apps and media server technology. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. 3gSimplified.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 31, 2020

IN THIS EDITION Fintech products ease more Americans into the stock market In defense of the IPO, and how to improve it What’s inside your (mobile) bank? Read the full post — Alex Rampell , a16z fintech general partner, and Scott Kupor , a16z managing partner What’s inside your (mobile) bank? Thanks for signing up.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

I deliberately wrote a highly controversial series of articles in 2008 [ Death Of Indian Outsourcing ] to provoke a debate on the topic. The industry is extremely low-tech, but in today's India, everyone uses mobile phones. Upwardly mobile consumers, I am sure, would welcome a service like Delyver. Delyver Retail Network.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Today James Hickey from San Diego, California, pitched Parallel6 , a company that does social media marketing services for brands and also has a white label mobile app that can be customized and branded for their clients' mobile and social marketing needs. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

With the launch of Airbnb in 2008 and Uber (*) in 2009, these two companies established a new category of marketplaces known as the “sharing economy.” Airbnb was founded by Joe Gebbia and Brian Chesky in 2008. Upwork is a global freelancing platform where businesses and independent professionals can connect and collaborate remotely.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Fifty of its manufacturing activities and 70% of its consolidated revenues derive from global operations. Waze’s free mobile application provides a social network where drivers interact, reporting on road conditions. Israel Corporation is Israel’s largest holding company.

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bizthoughts.mikelee.org

MARCH 8, 2012

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 15, 2019

in 2016, as an advanced e-mobility and automotive technology company with the mission to develop world-class, emotionally-compelling vehicles featuring the most forward-thinking automotive technologies in existence. I had seen enough of large global companies and envied the way they had established their presence and their brand.

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