Gust

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

As I’ve discussed elsewhere, Gust’s long-term goal is to serve as the infrastructure platform for the entire global, early stage finance industry. Instead, it is our eight years of indefatigable relationship and customer building with large segments of the world’s early stage finance industry.

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Belarus Kazakhstan Portugal Accredited Investor 107

Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

Meet the Locals Here are the most active early stage investors in town that you should meet while you’re here and do deals with. It’s a robust ecosystem so I’m only listing the ones we’ve done the most deals with here but Capital Factory is the most active early stage investor in Texas so this is a good sampling.

Silicon Valley 50

Silicon Valley Technical Review Texas Venture Capital 50

Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 22, 2019

When China banned cryptocurrency exchanges in 2017 and then went after Bitcoin mining in 2018, we saw short-term impacts on the price of Bitcoin, but no lasting effect despite the huge size of the Chinese market for the currency. Wave 4: Disruption of what a firm means (pre-product market fit).

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2021

Dozens of outreach programs across the military now offer quick revenue to early-stage companies. 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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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

China’s Age of Malaise [Evan Osnos/New Yorker] – A loooong read but essential stuff if you are interested in China from an sort of view (cultural, economic, geopolitical, startup). When I return to China these days, the feeling of ineluctable ascent has waned.

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Venture Capital China Government Early Stage 65

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 9, 2010

First up today was Jacqueline Floro-Pierre with ShopTranslated from China. Jacqueline and her partner Cortney are designing and manufacturing the line out of China and selling in the U.S. Malaysia, India, China, Italy, Argentina, wherever), you are better off raising money locally. Well, there are multiple nuances to the answer.

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David Teten

AUGUST 29, 2012

a pitch event featuring ten early stage tech startups, Tuesday night , September 4 at Microsoft’s midtown office at 1290 Avenue of the Americas. I’ll be a judge for IGNITE!, Presenting Companies. geekli.st. A place for geeks to share what they’ve done, who they did it with and connect with great companies and communities.

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Curation Japan Technical Review Artificial Inteligence 114

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

Take China-based AI startup SenseTime, for example. Venture capital fundraising can be divided into three stages: seed, early stage, and later stage. According to the same report by KPMG, the median deal size is the largest for later-stage funding, at $26 million. Allows startups to scale up easily.

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Venture Capital Asia Artificial Inteligence Later Stage 175

David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

This is a model used in at least one case by China’s third-largest private equity firm, China Science & Merchants Investment Management Group ($12 billion+ AUM), which funded in 2015 CSC Upshot, a $400m seed fund through AngelList. – Coinvest nearly exclusively, without leading rounds or taking board seats.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Cofounder 60

The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2020

Take China for example. With the support of a specialist solutions company, they can assist with everything from local recruitment, understanding China’s business and law regulations, to helping create a Sales Office in China. In certain countries, you can utilize a specialist solutions company which acts as a middleman.

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China Early Stage Business Model Matching 90

Scalable Startup

JANUARY 15, 2015

They keep you involved even from the early stages of the value chain including selecting the right engineers and taking direction and input on the future technical growth plan for those engineers. Jobs career early stage offshore Paris Software Development tom nora' The good thing is, you are using Skype and hangout.

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Offshore Web Development Europe Web 20

Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 5, 2010

I never expected to have my first book published in China, much less in Mandarin, but that goes to show how much the world continues to change. Venture Capital started in China in 1985, when the first government-sponsored venture capital firm was established. In 2006, China’s total venture capital investment reached $1.78

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Venture Capital China Technical Review Due Diligence 44

Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

Salon C American Innovators in China with Eisenhower Fellow Chelsea Collier Four US innovators share their unique experiences traveling through China to discover people, culture, business, and food surprises while the 2016 Presidential election and historic World Series take place back home. Contrasting China via their Zhi-Xing (? ?,

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Technical Review Silicon Valley Texas Austin 58

K9 Ventures

JUNE 5, 2015

I still wanted K9 to be the first institutional money in a company and work with “frighteningly early-stage” companies. Your early stage investment portfolio may no longer really be early stage. A lot of this capital is coming from non-traditional geographies like China, Russia, Middle East, India.

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Seed Stage Venture Capital Early Stage Valuation 48

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 17, 2010

Showcase Of Web Design In China: From Imitation To Innovation - [link]. An “earn in” proposal – Employee option allocations in early stage companies - [link]. The Amazing Art of Disabled Artists - [link]. 20 Worst Web Design and Development Trends - [link]. 50 Fantastic Favicons - [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 88

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2014

Events for enthusiasts, called Maker Faires, now stretch far outside California to places such as Detroit, New York and even Shenzhen, China. They come at the early stage while a startup has no revenue or valuation, so professional investors are hard to find. A recent California event packed in 100,000 people.

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Entrepreneur Detroit California Cofounder 246

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Singapore-based early-stage technology seed fund Golden Gate Ventures has announced investments into cloud-based inventory and sales management SaaS solutions provider TradeGecko , online grocer RedMart and mobile payment provider Coda Payments. This marks Golden Gate Ventures first investments since its founding in February this year.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2011

Today, the signs of the new bubble are the Linked-In initial public offering (IPO), Facebook’s stratospheric valuation and the rapid rise of early-stage startup valuation. In December 2010, Youku—the YouTube of China —went public, with a valuation of $4.4 billion at the end of the first day (on $58.9 billion (on $76.5

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Silicon Valley Stealth Valuation Mississippi 327

View from Seed

DECEMBER 6, 2018

But in geographic terms the unicorn list is now very much a global one with China leading the way. But as an early-stage VC investor I’m more impressed by a company that achieves a $500M enterprise value with <$25M of paid in capital than one that hits $1B with >$250M in funding.

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IPO Valuation San Francisco Silicon Valley 120

The Startup Magazine

MAY 15, 2018

The study mentioned above shows that 35% of unicorns were from China in 2017, while the number of the U.S. Not to mention that there are still numerous diversity problems, high salaries, and the lack of opportunities for early-stage businesses to hire experienced talent. in this field has plummeted. unicorns dropped from 61.1%

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 26, 2011

According to that document, the fund will continue the firm's focus on investment in early and growth stage technology companies in the U.S. and expand its investment efforts in those same sorts of early stage companies in China. Most recently, the firm invested $27.5 billion in yesterday's filing. Discuss.

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Securities and Exchange Commission Silicon Valley Michigan China 116

The Next Web

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

The key investors to keep tabs on are, for the most part, concentrated in four primary markets: China. With the strengthening Yuan , China is a great place to look for funding right now. Therefore, the big players in the market are being more inquisitive than normal and are now actually taking serious looks outside of China as well.

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Asia Silicon Valley India China 123

YoungUpstarts

MAY 31, 2011

He recently founded The Startup Centre , an India-based accelerator for early stage start-ups, and also a hub for initiatives related to tech, design and entrepreneurship. Much of that has changed – like the way it has changed in China. I do expect much of this to happen in the next five years in India.

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India Silicon Valley Early Stage Asia 185

NZ Entrepreneur

DECEMBER 5, 2019

There is nothing wrong with using unregistered trade marks to save costs during the early stages of a venture. Registering a trade mark also ensures freedom-to-use and is the best way to prevent trade mark hijacking in civil law countries such as China. This, in itself, is an expensive legal step.

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IP Non-disclosure Agreement Intellectual Property New Zealand 62

Reid Hoffman

MAY 21, 2020

Even as reports of a new viral outbreak in China started popping up during the first weeks of 2020, most people were slow to pay sufficient attention to the developing threat. On January 29th, the Gates Foundation pledged $10 million “to help frontline responders in China and Africa accelerate their efforts to contain the global spread.”.

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Non-Compete China Global Government 62

Austin Startup

JANUARY 2, 2021

They are coming from the East and West Coasts, from London and China and Tel Aviv. He was the first institutional investor in Facebook and also an early-stage investor in groundbreaking companies like Etsy, Spotify, C3.AI, Why does it feel different here than other cities? Why Jim Breyer?

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Silicon Valley Austin Texas Raleigh 100

Berkonomics

APRIL 25, 2019

Email readers continue here…] It is a rule that early stage managers should find, protect and grow the core business, finding resources wherever possible to service that core in the form of variable expense, to be added to or shed at will as the company finds its niche and establishes a pattern of growth.

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Philippines Vertical IP India 48

Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. In these series of 5 posts, I thought I’d share what I learned in China. The previous post described how China built its science and technology infrastructure. It has become China’s Silicon Valley.

Programming 278

Programming Technical Review SBIR China 278

View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2017

All things being equal, seed and early stage startups are not usually well suited to take strategic investments. Startups at this stage are still seeking PMF and scalable growth, so their long-run strategic fit with a corporate VC is often still in flux. 2) Is now the right time for us?

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Strategic Investors Post-Money Valuation Seed Stage Cofounder 120

This is going to be BIG.

JULY 13, 2023

It was that latter part—the “by any means necessary—where I became a bit of a bull in a china shop. Maybe a big team isn’t your thing or you don’t really want to do early stage. We had three other Principals waiting for perhaps one Partner slot to open up and so it was basically written in stone that I was moving on.

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Accredited Investor Non-Compete Early Stage Salary 78

The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 14, 2016

Whilst valuations in the UK at the very early stages at which Forward Partners invests haven’t moved much (yet) friends here who invest at later stages are telling me stories of companies slashing their expectations by 40-50%. That process started quietly after the summer last year.

Cloud 60

Cloud Valuation Venture Capital Later Stage 60

Berkonomics

MAY 17, 2012

It is a rule that early stage managers should find, protect and grow the core business, finding resources wherever possible to service that core in the form of variable expense, to be added to or shed at will as the company finds its niche and establishes a pattern of growth.

Philippines 67

Philippines Vertical India China 67

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

But ultimately great people drive the ideas and Highland Capital is proactive in reaching out to entrepreneurs even at early stages. Since 2006 they have added offices outside of Boston including Menlo Park, Europe, and China. The fund is organized into sectors and each VC forms forward looking themes within sub sectors.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 22, 2012

We hear a lot in the news about patent wars among the tech giants – Nokia vs. Google, Apple’s lawsuits in China, and Facebook vs. Yahoo! But what about smaller technology players and early stage start-ups that don’t have the resources to hire full-time, international law firms?

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Intellectual Property IP Europe Asia 150

thebarefootvc

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Gox imploded and China first shut down bitcoin exchanges in April 2014, when the price hovered around $400. Early in 2014, I launched FuturePerfect Ventures, an early stage venture fund, to invest in the infrastructure and early use cases around blockchain and other decentralized technology.

Venture Capital 49

Venture Capital China Global Early Stage 49

Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. In these series of 5 posts, I thought I’d share what I learned in China. The previous post described how China built its science and technology infrastructure. It has become China’s Silicon Valley.

Programming 170

Programming Technical Review SBIR China 170

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 24, 2015

So why invest in that period of uncertainty unless it’s early-stage and thus valuation matters less. If we leave interest rates it can be interpreted as a fear our economy will be weak and/or impacted by China. If the next 30 days stays calm then investment will pick up. So plan your start date accordingly.

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