crowdSPRING Blog
JANUARY 19, 2011
The image above is the ten story Tianzi Hotel in the Hebei Province, China. Skype Founder, Niklas Zennström – words for young entrepreneurs – [link]. Core Peer Groups: How I Found a Co-Founder, Built a Prototype, and Raised $5M in 4 Weeks&# – [link]. 42 Fresh PS Tutorials In Early 2011 – [link].
thebarefootvc
FEBRUARY 19, 2014
Relevance: In 2011 (mentioned on page 18 if you view the presentation), Facebook only had 11% of the world’s internet users on on its platform – the figure was at 50% in North America. Jan Koum, one of WhatsApp’s founders, immigrated to the US from Communist Ukraine as a teenager. What in the World?!?
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Steve Blank
FEBRUARY 10, 2016
Funding challenges and other issues founders face in the early days of starting up were the focus of interviews with the latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on SiriusXM Channel 111 (airing weekly Thursdays at 1 pm Pacific, 4 pm Eastern). Will Zell , co-founder and CEO of Nikola Labs wireless power company.
YoungUpstarts
FEBRUARY 8, 2015
In Asia Pacific, the volumes in alternative finance have come from South Korea and China. China has the most active market, with over 600 P2P lenders, including Wangdaizhijia, Dianrong, and Renrendai. Combined, these two nations contributed about 95 per cent of deal flow in the region during 2010. Anthony Coundouris.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 25, 2012
Steve Jobs, co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of a little company called Apple Inc., who passed away from cancer in October 2011, was a jerk. Perhaps this attitude could be expanded to include the factory workers in China who make Apple products? Life is a marathon, not a sprint.
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 28, 2016
The major misconceptions are that the incubator will help you form your founding team, will guarantee funding for the company and that they will directly invest in your company and possibly take a lot of equity away from the founders. But don’t fret. Xiao Wang is the general manager and chief fire starter at InnoSpring Silicon Valley.
David Teten
JANUARY 28, 2019
Strong Asian ties, especially to China — Yale has among the strongest ties to China of any major Western university, matriculating its first Chinese student in 1854. In 2011, Yale launched Yale-NUS, a sister university based in Singapore. Founder community. I wrote a blog post on this.
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