ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 9, 2010

During this week's roundtable we had a group of entrepreneurs from the Pune Open Coffee Club gather at the offices of Persistent Systems to participate in the roundtable together. First up today was Jacqueline Floro-Pierre with ShopTranslated from China. First up today was Jacqueline Floro-Pierre with ShopTranslated from China.

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OnlyOnce

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The balance between protecting private property rights and allowing for entrepreneurs to fail and to disrupt incumbent leaders is what makes America unique, especially compared to the way European business culture has traditionally operated (consensus-oriented) and the way China operates (authoritarian).

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

Thus, more entrepreneurs can rise up to the challenge and innovate. Take China-based AI startup SenseTime, for example. In China, tech giants like Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent Holdings, are going global to build their in-house capabilities. Increases government support and legislation.

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Gust

AUGUST 22, 2012

How spoiled we are, taking for granted a system of government with relatively stable, transparent laws and regulations, consistently applied (at least in theory), and subject to judicial oversight with appellate review. What the heck was I doing in Egypt anyway?

Technical Review 172

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

2011 is going to be a great year for entrepreneurs – even better than 2010. The survey indicated that the VCs surveyed felt the best prospects were for entrepreneurs in emerging markets like China, Brazil, and India. But this investment will happen globally and the US may see a decline in VC-funded startups in 2011.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 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. I was only in China for a week so this a cursory view. We had a fireside chat with a room full of eager entrepreneurs.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 17, 2014

Many entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley believe that the financial services industry in the United States is “ripe for disruption. ” Consumers want faster, simpler, and cheaper transactions, and entrepreneurs want to give it to them. Interbank transfers all over China are also same day. The key questions are “ why? ”

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Seeing Both Sides

MARCH 27, 2014

Due to market forces and government regulations, banks abandoned the lower end of the consumer market. China''s Alipay reports that they processed $150 billion in mobile transactions in 2013 - nearly 6x the $27 billion PayPal reported (not including the Venmo acquisition, which is bound to accelerate growth in 2014).

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Growthink Blog

MARCH 21, 2010

For whatever reason my eye was caught by the fine-print label on one glove and its none too surprising "Made in China" imprint. Made in China. Made in China. Made in China. Made in China. Staring out lifelike from their boxes and Made in China. Made in China. Defending our freedoms and Made in China.

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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

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 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. I was only in China for a week so this a cursory view. We had a fireside chat with a room full of eager entrepreneurs.

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Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 164

David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

Everyone wanted to work in finance. Political science, government service, and law — Yale has the #1 rated law school in the US and a long history of alumni serving in government. For example, Yale could launch a center focused on applying political science thinking to the governance of major internet businesses (e.g.,

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

It is generally accepted that the novel coronavirus, COVID-19 , was first seen in Wuhan, China, during the last days of 2019. One of the many challenges facing the world’s governments is the fact that no one really knows how this virus behaves. Crisis versus opportunity: Setting the Scene. This virus is a zoonotic virus.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 28, 2010

government dataset compiled by the U.S. billion, followed by finance, 19 deals, and healthcare, 17 deals. The fact that Singapore, Brazil, India, China, Chile, the U.K., government policy ‘thenext big thing will not be invented here. government policy ‘thenext big thing will not be invented here.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Tim O’Reilly’s recent article, “ The fundamental problem with Silicon Valley’s favorite growth strategy ,” makes an impassioned argument that the ideas in our book, Blitzscaling , encourage entrepreneurs to behave in ways that are irresponsible or even dangerous in the pursuit of what he characterizes as “runaway growth.”

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www.businessweek.com

JUNE 18, 2012

Bloomberg Government. Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Markets & Finance. If your app was too popular, the costs would explode,” says entrepreneur Alexander Marktl, whose startup, Sonico Mobile, makes a foreign-language translation app. “As Jack Ma Is the Loneliest Billionaire in China. Bloomberg Law. Technology.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2011

Nothhaft has put together a challenging but small list of things we have to do to revitalize our innovation leadership, and I’m supportive: Liberate entrepreneurs from regulatory shackles. In most cases, no patent means no financing, no new products, no new jobs, and no new industries for tomorrow. Startups in the U.S.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. The 11 Harsh Realities Of Being An Entrepreneur - OnStartups , November 1, 2010 There's always talk about the end game in the form of an acquisition, funding announcement, or eventual flame out. Ralph Waldo Emerson. But I don’t think so.

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Technical Review Technology Product CTO Hire 175

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 11, 2020

6:56) A look at how many biotech companies and non-biotech entrepreneurs have pivoted to work exclusively on COVID-19. (7:35) Obviously, I think that in a time like this, this is when we should have a government response, but I don't think there's been enough of a government response focused on funding the things that can get us out of this.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Loading… Personal Finance. Personal Finance. Andreessen Horowitz is telling entrepreneurs it prefers situations where the founders have controlling stakes, reckoning that theyll be better able to resist outside distraction and focus on making great products. Welcome, Logout. Customer Center. My Journal. Edition Home.

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Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 1, 2008

A decline in federal and university financing for research has dried up new ideas, she said. When research does produce new technologies, entrepreneurs and the venture capitalists who back them have been too cautious to make big bets — especially after the costly failures of the dot-com bust. I hope not. to stay in the U.S.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 10, 2020

As an entrepreneur, Sal has always believed in thinking long-term. I think any entrepreneur has this delusional optimism that surely the world will recognize how valuable this is," he says. We need to wait for the government to fix it." But then by my second year, I had a real interest in finance. Eric Ries : Isn't it?

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California Silicon Valley Framework China 60

Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 29, 2009

And, secondly, NYC is where the big capital was - that is, after the company had matured past the VC financing stage. And like all good entrepreneurs (the bulk of our membership are CEOs of mid-sized and small young companies, not Fortune 1000), they were looking for insights and opportunities.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

If you are asking investors to invest into a foreign entity, get legal and tax experts to prepare the memos for them about the tax impact on their fund, governance of foreign corporation etc. Pitch to your advisors, to US entrepreneurs, to your colleagues, wife, what not. Several entrepreneurs tend to agree with that.

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Silicon Valley Startup Seed Stage Delaware 104

abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

By aggressively launching a free to use service, Alibaba’s Taobao quickly became the leading person-to-person trading site in China. They have helped 2,000 substitute teachers get in the classroom in 2018, including 400 educators who earned permits, which Swing willingly financed. As you can see, that can be a big mistake.

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Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 24, 2020

Hannu is one of those entrepreneurs who has put everything on hold to try to make a difference in a worldwide pandemic and we're grateful to him for that. Hannu has called for mass coordination between the government and the private sector to get to a vaccine faster, not a few months faster but dramatically faster.

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Founder Technical Review Leadership Software Review 60

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

中文-简体 (China). An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. Failure often is harder on entrepreneurs who lose money that theyve borrowed on credit cards or from friends and relatives than it is on those who raised venture capital. Deutschland.

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Venture Capital Software Review Rhode Island North Dakota 107

VC Cafe

APRIL 7, 2011

Its main customers include China’s Huawei Technologies, Israel’s Ceragon Networks and Sweden’s Ericsson. The Tel Aviv center will support Barclay’s international finance operations and expand the British bank’s equities and prime services among others.

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Java Database Argentina 79

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

The IPO market remained closed to IT startups, but there were big acquisitions like Google buying YouTube for $1.65B (Fall 2006) and late stage financing rounds for companies like Facebook (Microsoft round at $15B valuation in Fall 2007). Kevin Rose was on the cover of BusinessWeek.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

My advice to entrepreneurs was and is “ when the hors d’oeuvres tray is being passed take two ” (e.g. So I agreed to offer my current thinking on the economy and what it portends for the VC industry & fund raising for entrepreneurs. raise money now to weather any storms). We’d have to hit 2.5% Sound familiar?

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 5, 2022

We asked entrepreneurs and business owners their inspirational leaders and here’s what they had to say; #1- Bob Dole. His way of leading is a great example of how people should lead whatever organization they're in – government or business. I look up to him as a leader because he is a very successful entrepreneur.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Emerging markets are still struggling to climb to the top 50 spots: China is ranked 79th and India is at #134. The report didn’t take corruption and the state of the economy into account, but I can’t wait to see less red tape, more online government services and lower costs for Israeli entrepreneurs.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 11, 2022

VCs and entrepreneurs can play a role in addressing the challenge by shunning known sources of adversarial capital. By week 2 of the class students formed teams around a specific technology challenge facing a US government agency and worked throughout the course to develop their own proposals to help the U.S. Team Aurora. Team Catena.

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Technical Review Technology Taiwan Venture Capital 321

VC Cafe

JULY 7, 2010

In the business-efficiency category, Israel scored very high in availability of skilled labor, finance skills, entrepreneurship of managers and venture capital. Eureka was set up in 1985 as a legal framework allowing European companies to collaborate and receive government funding. INTEL CORP BUYS ISRAEL’S COMSYS.

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North America Brazil Argentina 68

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

passed the CHIPS and Science Act , one of the first pieces of national industrial policy – government planning and intervention in a specific industry — in the last 50 years, in this case for semiconductors. Today the United States is in great power competition with China. versus China. Last month the U.S. Unlike the U.S.,

China 363

China Venture Capital Government Artificial Inteligence 363

Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

Government and the enterprise are now followers rather than leaders. China has simply become the factory. Risk capital has emerged in China, India and other countries where risk taking, innovation and liquidity are encouraged, on a scale previously only seen in the U.S. or Euro-centric phenomenon.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

But before that, actually, there was this a couple of years break where, when Udemy did not work in Turkey, I met this Silicon Valley entrepreneur who wanted to build online, like speed dating, a video-based speed dating application. But yes, I migrated from Turkey to Silicon Valley in 2010 and started Udemy. ER : That's really interesting.

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