Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2014

Outsourcing is defined as contracting the work to another company, usually located in a developing country, like India, China, or Eastern Europe. For example, it is no secret that software pirating is still very common in China, Vietnam, and other cultures. The same applies to manufacturing and almost any process these days.

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View from Seed

MARCH 4, 2020

The biggest rise, unsurprisingly, was China, which enjoyed a huge surge in venture capital dollars over the past decade and enjoyed its fair share of blockbuster exits. Most of the remainder are funds that are less than 20 years old, such as General Catalyst, Lightspeed, Founders Fund, and A16Z.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2012

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.

Intellectual Property 222

Intellectual Property Non-disclosure Agreement Non-Compete Vietnam 222

Version One Ventures

MAY 3, 2023

But India is such a welcoming country that it only took a few weeks of preparation to fill a weeklong schedule with meetings – from a dinner arranged by Shiva with approximately 15 founders in Delhi to a talk about crypto at Builders Circle in Bangalore. group pic from meet-up w/ Delhi founders

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2016

Outsourcing is defined as contracting the work to another company, usually located in a developing country, like India, China, or Eastern Europe. For example, it is no secret that software pirating is still very common in China, Vietnam, and other cultures. The same applies to manufacturing and almost any process these days.

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 16, 2023

I’ve been heads down working with K9 portfolio companies and spending my time running HiHello as the co-founder and CEO of that company. After 10 years of building K9, my knowledge and advice to founders were becoming dated. Along the way, I’ve learned and am learning a LOT. Like a lot, a lot. HiHello has helped me do just that.

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Engineer Software Engineering Texas China 69

The Startup Magazine

MARCH 1, 2020

From the moment of the firm’s inception until now, the core objective of founder and managing partner Andrew Chung has remained the same: He wants to capitalize on any and all opportunities to bring nations closer together by finally acting as a bridge between the ingenuity of the West and the accelerating, survival-driven demands of the East.

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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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Intellectual Property Non-disclosure Agreement Non-Compete Vietnam 225

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

So I organized a team dinner with all four of my partners and all three of their founders. I also spent two weeks in China and vowed to make it back frequently. China is indelibly an important part of the future of the global technology system. 15 companies North of $1 billion exit.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

So I organized a team dinner with all four of my partners and all three of their founders. I also spent two weeks in China and vowed to make it back frequently. China is indelibly an important part of the future of the global technology system. 15 companies North of $1 billion exit.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2023

The last few months have been an unprecedented time for entrepreneurs and startup founders on the market. While the city is small in comparison to other major European destinations, many successful startup founders have ranked it among the likes of London or Paris.

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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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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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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Dan Young is the son of Chinese immigrant parents who fled China to escape communism. The post Dan Young, Founder Of PC Laptops, Xidax PCs, Storage Whale, $600,000,000 Million In Property Deals (VC EP14) appeared first on Yaro.Blog.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

China is the only nation that declined in national power and eventually recovered it – though it took half a millennium. The rise of the United States as a national power was incredibly steep, however its trend over the last two decades is not heading in the right direction and is about to intersect with the rise of China.

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thebarefootvc

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

Ironically, today, while Modi, leader of the world’s largest and most complex democracy, gave this speech, China violently cracked down on pro-democracy protestors in Hong Kong. For years, China has been the darling of the international investment community. In 2030, India is expected to surpass China in population.

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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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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

In the past few days there has been a lot of discussion on the topic of a Founders Visa. The credit for starting this fire goes to Paul Graham from Y Combinator , who wrote a great essay titled The Founders Visa in April 2009. As an immigrant founder, this is a topic that I can relate to and care about.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

China’s growth over the past few decades has been remarkable. Influenced by the rapid growth of the bike-sharing craze in China, a savvy Uber employee spun out to create Bird. And, this goes well beyond the current resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Frankly, the scale of it has snuck up on the U.S.

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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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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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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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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2021

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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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Beijing and China are great examples of how they will leapfrog Silicon Valley soon. 20 % of large companies in China have female CEOs, which is 14% more than the U.S. The long-term price is these tech communities will lose their dominance in attracting such talents. They have a track record of having female CEOs.

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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. Yves Sisteron, our founder and still a full-time and very active member of our partnership, has the opposite style.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

As a result, Latin America has emerged as a new hotspot for tech startups, alluring some of the top investors from the Silicon Valley and China. three entrepreneurs who are part of this vanguard of Latam founders. Yet female founders received only 2% of venture capital dollars in 2017. You can see a much larger list at the end.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 29, 2023

When it comes to launching a startup, most founders think they should reside in the United States, Silicon Valley, in particular, to have a successful business. Youth population, governmental support, and the US-China conflict are driving startup ecosystem transformation in Southeast Asia.

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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

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

China is the only nation that declined in national power and eventually recovered it – though it took half a millennium. The rise of the United States as a national power was incredibly steep, however its trend over the last two decades is not heading in the right direction and is about to intersect with the rise of China.

Technology 228

Technology China Russia Silicon Valley 228

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. Every Western CEO thinks she or he will be the first to be a successful Western brand in China and many try and launch a service there.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Many questioned whether it could survive under the fail whale, inevitable competition from Facebook, founder fighting, fights with 3rd-party developers let alone become a revolutionary business that could make money. When Fred Wilson funded Twitter I guarantee you it wasn’t obvious that it was a billion dollar idea. Far from it.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2021

Already popular in China, livestreaming commerce will be a new battleground for retailers and may bring community and entertainment to online shopping – elements it currently lacks “ (Disclaimer: we’re investors in Syte.ai , the visual search/image recognition tool for commerce).

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 18, 2012

As a startup in Asia, the top 2 markets to start from are China , and India. Hence, a Singaporean founder will find it easier to execute in the 3rd key market that is the MENASSEA region (Middle East, North Africa and South/Southeast Asia). In this case, I urge founders to start in the US first (i.e. Indonesia from day one.

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thebarefootvc

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

Ironically, today, while Modi, leader of the world’s largest and most complex democracy, gave this speech, China violently cracked down on pro-democracy protestors in Hong Kong. For years, China has been the darling of the international investment community. In 2030, India is expected to surpass China in population.

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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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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 (? ?, March 9, 2018 3:30PM?—?4:30PM 4:30PM Hilton?—?Salon March 9, 2018 5:00PM?—?6:00PM

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 22, 2013

China has one-fifth of the world’s population. The map above divides the world into five regions, each with the same population as China. A third of all venture backed companies that went public in the last six years had at least one immigrant founder – [link]. Puts things into perspective, doesn’t it?

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