Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 31, 2015

It all started with a small group of founders and product enthusiasts who self-aggregated into an online community. Prerna began her startup journey after leaving a job as a management consultant, and launched Yaari, a youth-oriented social network in India. She wants to disrupt Hollywood with the Lean Startup method.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2013

E-commerce is getting huge in India – according to industry watchers, the industry is expected to grow a compound annual growth rate of 57 per cent and is likely to reach US$34.2 billion by 2015.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 17, 2011

Adarsh Patil from Bangalore, India, presented ResortHunt. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant, she writes the blog Sramana Mitra On Strategy , and is author of the Entrepreneur Journeys book series and Vision India 2020. Ten people paying $37.50 ResortHunt. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes.

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Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

And with their capital and confidence, China and India are stretching their wings. goods and services, especially services, and they are expanding in aggregate at a rate that even 10% U.S. goods and services, especially services, and they are expanding in aggregate at a rate that even 10% U.S. Your India strategy? •

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 12, 2013

Canaan Partners - and Sequoia Capital -backed AdNear recently moved its global headquarters from India to Singapore to facilitate its expansion in this region. “As an established business hub, Singapore is the perfect launch pad for AdNear’s expansion into SEA markets,” says Anil Mathews, CEO of AdNear.

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Asia Advertising Mobile Malaysia 140

Growthink Blog

JUNE 6, 2011

He points to innovations like Amazon’s ongoing transformation of the ecommerce experience – none of which would be considered breakthrough technology, but which in their aggregate have brought unprecedented consumer productivity gains. Ridley takes the reader all the way back through human economic history.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 14, 2014

Average salaries around the world vary from a low of $30,208 in India to a high of $72,363 in Australia. With the exception of India, the salary ranges for startup founders around the world (see the charts at the end of this post) are remarkably similar.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 7, 2016

However, in India, any kind of government benefits are typically restricted to rural areas or towards liberal maternal leave policies. This degree of acceptance is a farfetched dream for India, but the good news is that for paternity leaves to become a norm seems imminent.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 31, 2012

accelerator and brought on two venture partners to help oversee its India investments. Startups in this class come from far and away, including Argentina, Austria, Australia, Brazil, Croatia, Denmark, India, Japan, Italy, Latvia & Estonia, Spain, and Taiwan. Iconfinder: site for icons. iDreamBooks: the Rotten Tomatoes for books.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 9, 2016

Amit Damani, cofounder of Vista Rooms , when not having quintessential talks on anything entrepreneurial, runs one of the fastest growing online aggregator for budget hotels in India.

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Cofounder India Aggregator Startup 100

Transformify

AUGUST 2, 2017

Many of the users of the forum are based in India or Asia in general which makes the form of choice for those interested in the specifics of the Asian labor market, local regulations, and HR practices. Blog Aggregators. If you are struggling to generate traffic to your blog, submit it to blog aggregators. Posts ~5x a week.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

These 6 KRIs are The CHICAGO MetricsR and are the result of an aggregation algorithm based on any number of tactical metrics. 17- India is quite an interesting name. And of course, India being an exotic destination to travel to the topic of where to go when to go India always came up. What a waste of time!

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 28, 2015

MasterCard’s Index – which covers Australia, New Zealand, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam, India, Bangladesh, and Myanmar – calculates an aggregate score for each country based on three components: basic money management, financial planning and investment.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 6, 2016

Amit Damani, cofounder of Vista Rooms , when not having quintessential talks on anything entrepreneurial, runs one of the fastest growing online aggregator for budget hotels in India. These learnings could go a long way in securing investments for your venture.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, India and some other countries have been privy to the on-demand bubble, so to speak. Samar is furthermore the founder of Jugnoo , India’s leading auto rickshaw aggregator with a user base of around 4 million, and is currently rendering its services in 40 cities of India.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Amit Damani, cofounder of Vista Rooms, when not having quintessential talks on anything entrepreneurial, runs one of the fastest growing online aggregator for budget hotels in India. Make your team focused on being frugal and innovative and take the red pill daily.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 12, 2010

While the group sentiment for 2010 did not improve significantly vs. November 2009, the projections for 2011 are now a lot more optimistic - 42% higher 2011 aggregated EBITDA announced in March 2010 vs. the November 09! mba india. Also, even if the productivity is increasing, it is still far from the 0.75-1.0 Amit said.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2012

Kevin Rose at TechCrunch , April 20, 2009: Digg founder Kevin Rose almost sold his wildly popular aggregator to Google in 2008, and subsequently turned his resources toward creating a much stronger independent business instead. Aneesha Raghunathan at Raising CEO Kids , Dec. Warren Buffett at Huffington Post/Yahoo!

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Growthink Blog

JULY 23, 2012

And with their capital and confidence, China and India are stretching their wings. goods and services, especially services, and they are expanding in aggregate at a rate that even 10% U.S. goods and services, especially services, and they are expanding in aggregate at a rate that even 10% U.S. Your India strategy? •

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www.peterdrew.net

OCTOBER 23, 2010

I personally use coders online from Asia, India and Russia. They will soon be able to generate a lot. and any time you have put into this person will be lost. Repeat the above as many times as needed to find that coder, who only codes and does nothing else. This post is about outsourcing coders. I have full time staff in my office aswell.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 2, 2020

India has been known for 1000’s of years for health and beauty routines/ideas like Ayurveda/Yoga, which have derived inspiration from Nature. I felt that we should be the brand to share this wealth of knowledge from India to the world. I wanted to be the first Indian beauty/wellness brand to go truly global.

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 1, 2021

It is crucial to acknowledge what’s hidden in the aggregated trend above: The impact on individual countries is variable. The variant identified in India, B.1.617.2, I grew up in India, R1.4 This chart, from NPR , illustrates some cause for optimism. It shows the 7-day average new cases per day across the world.

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A Crowded Space

AUGUST 11, 2014

Find aggregators. Find physical aggregators  There are various aggregators in the real world that provide really novel ways to hack liquidity. Find supply aggregators  Lets say you need a whole bunch of freelance developers. See: Github , OpenTable. See: Gigwalk.

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

It’s an India-based web design company. These companies, SageWorks, SizeUp, and there’s others, basically aggregate anonymously thousands and thousands of companies’ information. That information in aggregate tells a story that any small business should know about their own competitive landscape. Should we use them?

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

12 cloud IPOs in the past 2 years: One from Europe SaaS companies are thriving in the public markets, with their aggregated market cap grew 350% since 2011, and 12 cloud companies going public in the past 24 months. These 12 have performed well, with an aggregate $2.6 in the US, $2.6B in Europe and $0.9B

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

This was also the period when VC started expanding seriously in emerging markets like India and China, and many LPs put new capital into these OUS funds. a VC fund’s entire portfolio in aggregate, net of management fees and carried interest) a good return from an LP’s perspective would be 2.5-3.0x So at a fund level (e.g.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 19, 2010

Now when I do analysis of my performance (not just in aggregated but segmented by geo and campaign and source and…) I'll know if our results are good or bad or ugly. In aggregate almost all data is useless (like # of Visits). I'll look over my historical performance. You segment by dimensions and report by metrics.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

Using memcacheds multiget, which allows the fetching of many keys in parallel, I have written code to aggregate all the shard lookups for a given page and prefetch them, reducing the overhead even further. nice post April 2, 2009 11:00 PM web design India said. The actual directory itself is straightforward.

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VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2010

PeerTV was linux on DSP, which aggregated content from the Internet like Boxee and BeeTV. All the peripheral services are profitable, but there was no place that aggregated everything under one roof. we today aggregate 30,000 conferences on the site. You sell to Telco’s in India and they pay you in two years. It was hard.

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Brandanew

JANUARY 8, 2016

Come for our first 2016 digital marketing workshop on Jan 15 (3pm to 6pm) in Delhi, India. I have tested a lot of tools that do a great job of measuring aggregate data and spitting out a recap, but NUVI has a unique way of score influencers, color coding sentiment, and finding trends in real-time. Do share your favorites with us!

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Tony P great, though meebo’s place as a “successful&# start up is still open to debate – from consumer IM aggregator to white label IM, still not making big $$. Thus had to spend hard cash building a half way completed demo outsourced to India. link] SEO India Wonderful!! This is the blog post I needed to read.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Between the worse data aggregation method and the much higher amount of work Wesabe made you do, it was far easier to have a good experience on Mint , and that good experience came far more quickly. the hardware ecosystem in India) and internal reasons (e.g. I was about to become the first person in America to sell condom key chains.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

In most SaaS sub-markets, we find that Europe is roughly three years behind the US in adoption, and Asia is slightly behind Europe – although we have recently seen some interesting pockets of activity in Japan and India that may be accelerating. Look at which pages, features, and sub-components are getting the most active usage and why.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Aggregated, that’s a lot of money. based in emerging markets: Russia, China, India. But how many sites do you use on a regular basis? If you’re the average Internet user, probably 10-15. More advanced users probably use up to 30 sites regularly. com, qq.com, sina.com.cn).

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Russia Hosting Differentiation Social Network 68

Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Finding money online (principally online lending) has not seen the same level of explosive growth in the US, although in Europe and India there has been real growth in microlending (including “pay day loans”) from companies ranging from Wonga to SKS Finance.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

aggregation. India Israel. Advasense Technologies. Advent Venture Partners. advertising. Aerotel Medical Systems. AFCV Holdings. Afterdownload. Airbase Systems. Alan Patricof. Alex Osterwalder. Allon Bloch. Allot Communications. Alma Lasers. Alon Bloch. IM Creator. imagine communications. imlive.com. Incredimail. Index Ventures.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 19, 2020

According to her data, Montanes says impact tech VCs have yet to realize exits: around 100 startups have been acquired (and a few IPOs) with an aggregate value of around $90 billion (excluding $18 billion of Tesla’s IPO). Israel, a hub for Impact Tech?

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