Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2022

His focus is on entrepreneurs in America, but what he says applies to every other country as well. Most of their new claims to innovation are acquired through mergers and acquisitions from the entrepreneurial pipeline. Existing technologies have been “commoditized” globally. Government bail-outs do not promote innovation.

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Artificial Inteligence Offshore Merger Technical Review 315

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

His focus is on entrepreneurs in America, but what he says applies to every other country as well. Most of their new claims to innovation are acquired through mergers and acquisitions from the entrepreneurial pipeline. Existing technologies have been “commoditized” globally. Government bail-outs do not promote innovation.

Engineer 219

Engineer Entrepreneur Offshore Merger 219

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

So was the global futurist at HP and over a number of years, as we were restructuring the firm, we had to figure out what are the things we know will happen over the next decade, over the 2020s. There are no contracts, no additional cost based in Latin America with incredible English, proficiency and business experience work better.

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Technical Review Networking United States Artificial Inteligence 61

Growthink Blog

JUNE 25, 2014

In the real world however, prices are determined by supply and demand. And a lot more of it comes from massive commodities-driven wealth in places like Russia, Africa, South America, and the Middle East. This, however, represents a theoretical view of pricing, one driven by the relationship between current and future cash flows.

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South America Marketing Private Equity Russia 81

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 27, 2019

Innovation not only impacts global economies and business models, but the quality of life of people. A sustaining innovation targets demanding, high-end customers with better performance than what was previously available. It augmented its research by building its brands, pipeline and profile through major acquisitions.

Technical Review 127

Technical Review Business Model Non-Compete Software Review 127

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 24, 2013

His focus is on America, but what he says applies to every other country as well. Most of their new claims to innovation are acquired through mergers and acquisitions from the entrepreneurial pipeline. Existing technologies have been “commoditized” globally. Single-node factories may be home-based with a global market.

Entrepreneur 263

Entrepreneur Offshore Merger Technical Review 263

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

His focus is on entrepreneurs in America, but what he says applies to every other country as well. Most of their new claims to innovation are acquired through mergers and acquisitions from the entrepreneurial pipeline. Existing technologies have been “commoditized” globally. Government bail-outs do not promote innovation.

Offshore 139

Offshore Merger Technical Review Distribution 139

View from Seed

AUGUST 30, 2016

I inquired about why the building was so “hidden,” as this was surprising to me, but the answer made sense: A few months prior, a Facebook user in Europe had flown to Dublin, arrived at the office, and demanded that he be given access to his ex-girlfriend’s account because she had cut him off after the two broke up.

Social Media 185

Social Media B2B North America Media 185

The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Innovation not only impacts global economies and business models, but the quality of life of people. Scholar and innovation expert Clayton Christensen explains it this way: A sustaining innovation targets demanding, high-end customers with better performance than what was previously available. Disruptive Innovation Defined.

Technical Review 113

Technical Review Business Model Non-Compete Software Review 113

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Nearly all of the ones who''d been successful went through a natural process of customer development—what we call the “empathy” stage—followed by a tight focus on stickiness, then virality, then paid acquisition, and finally scaling. We''ve done some work with the folks at Code for America. Alistair: There are plenty.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

His focus is on entrepreneurs in America, but what he says applies to every other country as well. Most of their new claims to innovation are acquired through mergers and acquisitions from the entrepreneurial pipeline. Existing technologies have been “commoditized” globally. Government bail-outs do not promote innovation.

Offshore 120

Offshore Startup Merger Technical Review 120

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 15, 2020

As a kid growing up in America in a middle class family it just seemed so remote. The customer acquisition costs are going down. Now is the time to do those things so that you come on the other side after the reset, in America 2.0, I remember as a kid, my parents were victims of the Holocaust and fought in the wars.

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Dallas Employee Government Social Media 68

David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

Prior to AxialMarket, Peter held positions in private equity at SFW Capital Partners and was part of the founding team at Gerson Lehrman Group, where he helped build the firm’s dominant global marketplace for on-demand business expertise. He was responsible for international M&A at Hill Samuel Bank, Close Bros.

Private Equity 68

Private Equity Merger IPO Equity 68

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Bernard is based in New York, was born in Berlin, has lived in and started companies in Asia and Europe as well as America; he is comfortable with globalization. The global economy is currently going through a " perfect storm" of change , so we can expect even more creative destruction than normal.

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Software Startup Architecture Bootstrapping 127

Reid Hoffman

MARCH 2, 2021

Khosrowshahi, who previously served as CEO of Expedia before taking the reins at Uber in 2017, sat down with Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman to discuss the past, present and future of the mobility and delivery business that now operates in 71 countries around the world and employs around 20,000 people globally. Iconversations [guest].

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Iran Technical Review Non-Compete Lean 39

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Only after reaching $1M in CMRR should you consider hiring European sales and services execs behind customer demand. Be prepared to cross the desert - SaaS requires R&D and sales expense up front for a multi-year stream of revenue, so it demands enough investment capital to fund 4+ years of runway. Cashflow is the other key metric.

Software Review 48

Software Review North America Europe Metrics 48

thenextweb.com

AUGUST 6, 2012

Latin America. While finishing his final two years of his PhD, helping take reddit to acquisition in late 2006 and moving to San Francisco to start a family, Chris had realised that academia was not the road for him. “I He is, indeed, demanding progress. But even with this acquisition, Loopt remains ahead of the curve.

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Cofounder San Francisco Programming Founder 70

Steve Blank

JANUARY 14, 2021

It called out China as a peer competitor to America, pursuing its goal of global dominance. The American people will need to demand more of their government and elected officials. But for the rest of you, here they are: The 2018 National Defense Strategy focused the DoD on Great Power competition.

Technology 410

Technology China Artificial Inteligence Acquisition 410

Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

Among others, I would quote the Bladelogic IPO, the acquisition of Postini by Google for $625m, the two largest SaaS deals in history signed by Cornerstone OnDemand (160k and 350k seats), Eloqua almost doubling its revenues and LinkedIn adding more than 10m users. Prove your business in North America first. Global Warning!

Software Review 48

Software Review South Korea IPO Portfolio 48

VC Cafe

JANUARY 31, 2011

Israeli startup acquisitions. A bit old but still very relevant – Questions asked about Groupon’s acquisition of Israel’s Grouper for an estimated $8 to $15 million. founding rounds raised by eToro, Covertix, Playcast Media and Omek Interactive, product launches by Tawkon, acquisition by Groupon and much more.

South America 90

South America Russia Acquisition 90

VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

3GVision is the global leader in mobile barcode services that use the camera phone to scan barcodes. IPgallery, a privately held US company, founded in 2000, is a leading global supplier of converged Legacy and Next Generation/IMS Value Added Services for Voice, Video, and Data. MailVision. Mer Telecom. -

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Mobile Securities and Exchange Commission Flash IP 103

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Central America. Site-centric analysis is primarily focused on looking at direct competitors, or adjacent ones, and learning from what is happening with Acquisition, Behavior and Outcomes on their website (desktop and/or mobile). Sadly, the same for perhaps the entire African continent. So let's start there. Recommend changes.

Metrics 60

Metrics Analytics Non-Compete Search 60

Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 13, 2021

You know, “I have profit loss statements and cost of customer acquisition and long-term value and cohort analysis and all of these things,” (all of which of course super important for understanding and valuing businesses appropriately), and what they’re growing to, and what the growth stage, and what is the future.

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Incubator IPO Networking Cofounder 36