Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2011

Since my background includes software development, I often get the question about when to build a solution in-house, versus outsourcing it to a local company, near-shore service, or off-shore organization in China, India, or Eastern Europe. For example, 90% of the software used in China and Vietnam today is pirated. Technology level.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

I’ve been meaning to write this post since September of last year when Brad Feld first wrote about the The Founders Visa Movement. TWTFelipe is the founder of TWTApps , who had developed some really cool add-on applications for Twitter to extend its functionality. He stated: “China is also courting trouble.

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David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

Managers of VC funds typically want to grow their business aggressively, just like the founders we back. Among the sites we have found most helpful with practical guides for founders: Biztree , First Search , Foundersuite , Goodwin Founders Workbench , Guides.co , Inc.com , and StartupRocket. .

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David Cohen

APRIL 3, 2013

Recently, I took my 11 year old (Andrew) to Beijing, China for 10 days. 30 minutes through border patrol and we are in china. tomorrow we will go to the Great Wall of china, and then have a tour of the school in the early evening. the school is an old factory that is a labor of love of the founder and principal.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 18, 2012

As a startup in Asia, the top 2 markets to start from are China , and India. However, they tend to be extremely difficult to navigate especially if you do not have a cofounder from and/or experience in that country. In this case, I urge founders to start in the US first (i.e. Indonesia from day one.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2010

Since my background includes software development, I often get the question about when to build a solution in-house, versus outsourcing it to a local company, near-shore service, or off-shore organization in China, India, or Eastern Europe. For example, 90% of the software used in China and Vietnam today is pirated. Technology level.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2016

We also look for a cultural fit with Upfront, which includes the gravitas to deal with executives and founders at the startups we back as well as the other board members. Having a great co-investor (in good times and bad times, till death do we part) can make all the difference in critical moments of a company’s trajectory.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 22, 2014

A bank wire is not always a convenient mode of payment, especially for customers in China who do not use internet banking. It is found that 70 per cent of exports from China are not bought on an open account. Offer multiple payment options. Complexity over the payment method was cited as a factor driving up DSO. Automated reminders.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 7, 2017

by Hannah Sieber, co-founder and COO of EcoFlow Tech. Before EcoFlow Tech, she led the San Francisco Center for Economic Development’s Southern China effort where she worked with Chinese companies across the Pearl River Delta on building and financing strategic projects in San Francisco.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

You can now get tooling and products built very quickly either in the US or in China, with delayed payment options. With do-it-yourself makerspaces such as TinkerMill , you can avoid expensive prototyping iterations. The need to build a new million-dollar factory for each new product is gone. Use freelance and work-at-home to reduce payroll.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2021

Jeff Decker is a co-instructor of the Hacking for Defense class and the Stanford program director. This emerging opportunity reflects the urgency of keeping pace with rivals like China and Russia, who are furiously integrating commercial technologies like AI, quantum computing, and unmanned systems into their armed forces.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

Friday, March 9 Attracting VC Funding Outside Silicon Valley Panel with HomeAway founder Brian Sharples & Capital Factory Director Gordon Daugherty We do a lot of things differently in Texas, including fundraising. Contrasting China via their Zhi-Xing (? ?, Gayle King is co-host of CBS This Morning. March 9, 2018 3:30PM?—?4:30PM

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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.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Most recently, he was named one of the 40 Under 40 Businessmen in China by Fortune magazine. In the past few years, AI technology has developed rapidly in China creating large-scale companies. The mission of Ling Technology’s founders was to create a “Ling” world with man and robot symbiosis. Tell us your story.

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 6, 2021

I’d exchanged DMs with Waze co-founder and CEO Noam Bardin a few weeks back to ask about learnings from his last few years inside Google. Looking back, this reminds me of the Western CEO and China. You will never be able to take the brand risks, the legal risks, or the partnerships risks that a true startup can.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

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. If they don’t, then the management team has simply become caretakers of the founders’ legacy. This never ends well.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Such was my recent meeting with Seth Sternberg, founder & CEO of Meebo. And I’d recommend them to any talented startup founders out there.&#. After Meebo launched, his friends helped him get the word out and soon they were getting coverage as far a China and India. And there you have it. Not a chance. I totally agree.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Jan Koum, one of WhatsApp’s founders, immigrated to the US from Communist Ukraine as a teenager. He worked at Yahoo, where he met his co-founder. If this acquisition, cited as the largest venture backed exit ever, doesn’t change that view, I’m not sure what will.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 9, 2021

Looking back, I believe that Jeff is one of most iconic, successful founders and CEOs of all time. Jeff is also one of the few founders I know of who sets OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) for his board members. What I say is only speculative, but hopefully helpful and insightful. You can listen to the entire podcast here.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2011

I turned around and there was StockTwits founder (and my favorite Tweeter) Howard Lindzon. And we’re here with Dan Martell , who like any great startup founder is wearing his company t-shirt for Flowtown. This time on mysterious party bus to nowhere but situated with the CTO & Cofounder of Living Social, Aaron Batalion.

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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]. Lean Marketing 101: Setting Goals – [link].

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David Teten

AUGUST 29, 2012

Coming from Japan and China, co-founders Rie and Jie plan to disrupt the fashion consignment industry on a global scale by creating the most personalized experience for fashion enthusiasts to shop and sell online. Material Wrld is an exclusive online fashion community for shoppable personal closets.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

Alibaba, today the counterpart in China to Amazon, Ebay, and Google here, has demonstrated leadership in this area, and provides guidance for all of us to learn from in a new book, “ Smart Business ,” by Ming Zeng. Only smart software can plow through the volume of live data, recognizing trends, customers, and match offerings to reality.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 12, 2019

On the opposite pole, we have China, one of the countries with the most polluted air. A heavily industrialized country, with high population density, China now struggle with severe air pollution. We think of it as a free commodity, but countries like India and China prove us wrong day after day. And start-ups are no exception.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

By: Ryan Terry, co-founder and president, BILDIT. Ryan has over 15 years of experience in digital retail including leading advertising growth, brand development, and mobile app creation for retailers and suppliers in the US, China, and Japan markets. So, what are you waiting for? . About the Author.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 29, 2013

This post was written by Sarah Milstein, co-host of The Lean Startup Conference. Often, in very young organizations, those people are simply the founders. Last year, the co -founders of B ack to the Roots talked about their innovation accounting and how they were ignoring sales metrics in order to grow.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 27, 2013

Shanghai, China-based SeedAsia was officially launched in mid May as Asia’s first online equity funding platform for Asia-based technology startups. based startup crowdfunding platforms SeedAsia aims to help matchmake quality startups in China and Southeast Asia seeking funding with qualified, accredited investors.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 16, 2013

We grab Epirot Ludvik Nekaj (pictured above), the founder And CEO Of Crowdsourcing Week , for a quick chat on where crowdsourcing is headed in the coming years for this part of the world. China has the most people using crowdsourcing, they even have their own term for it: Witkey (??).

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

female founders. founder friday. Lessons learned from female founders and women entrepreneurs. Startup Quote: Wendy Tan White on Building a Successful Startup » FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder. Tweet By Elizabeth Knopf (Co-Founder & CEO, Sorced). Conference 2012.

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Agile VC

MAY 9, 2014

One of the first things that caught my eye when I started reading the Alibaba Group S-1 was a section on page 7 of the filing regarding something called the “Alibaba Partnership” It quickly struck me that the Alibaba Group’s corporate governance in some ways mirrors China’s Politburo.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

10 Ways to Make Your Relationship With Your Co-Founder A Success – crowdspring.co/1sSi21Y. Notes From Behind the Firewall: The State of Web Design in China | Tuts+ Web Design – crowdspring.co/1yCnrPZ. Tony Robbins… The CEO Whisperer – crowdspring.co/1sSkuW5. – crowdspring.co/1sSpg62. 10L75tk.

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Scott Edward Walker

JULY 26, 2020

This week, we present Jack Ma , the co-founder and former executive chairman of Alibaba Group. As of July 24, 2020, Jack is the second-wealthiest person in China, with a net worth of $48.1 In this brief interview from a few years ago, Jack shares five solid tips for founders.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 31, 2022

As part of our Female Founder series , The Startup Magazine caught up with Claudia Freed, CEO of the Wheaton Illinois-based nonprofit EALgreen. The post Female Founder Interview – Claudia Freed, CEO of Non-Profit EALgreen appeared first on The Startup Magazine. As an immigrant student from Argentina, Ms. TSM: Fantastic!

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2020

In January of this year, he arrived in the US with his co-founders as part of the winter 2020 YCombinator batch. When the shelter in place orders began, Alpha found himself living in a tiny Airbnb with his other co-founders, Having just arrived from the UK to do the start up program, YCombinator. Alpha Lee : Right.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Prominent personalities such as Ho Kwon Ping, Founder and Executive Chairman of Banyan Tree Holdings Limited, Gary Wang, Founder and CEO of Tudou, the leading video portal of China and Patrick Lee, co-founder of Alive Not Dead and Rotten Tomatoes, will provide their insights to technopreneurs during a one-day get-together.

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Our Own Start-up

APRIL 9, 2020

Edutech companies in India are gaining lot and lot of popularity these days and such companies has seen an unprecedented growth in the recent days.The organization is run by four friends from Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) – Vamsi Krishna (Co-Founder, CEO), Pulkit Jain (Co-Founder, Head Product), Saurabh Saxena (Co-Founder, Head Academics) (..)

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

Very cool concept and I want to thank the founder Adil Mohammed for inviting me to take part in it. Everyone wants to sell to 1% of China… It’s hard to exactly know your niche in the beginning, so Pivot if you have to. I’ve learned this first hand from Mark Gerson, the founder of Gerson Lehrman Group.

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