Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2020

It has played almost no role in the emergence of current non-US bred startups, including Alibaba in China, Waze from Israel, Paytm in India, and many more. Even here, Elon Musk faced this issue with Tesla, needing a support ecosystem as well as new technology. In effect, Silicon Valley needs to take a more global perspective.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Inox India’s initial public offering ( IPO ) opened on Dec. 14th at Rs 627-Rs 660 ($7.52 – $7.92) per share and fully subscribed after the first day, reports India Today. The offering is not due to close until Dec. 18, with the IPO scheduled to be allotted on Dec. It will make its stock market listing debut on Dec.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 14, 2022

In this posts I review the potential risks for the Israeli tech ecosystem and the mitigating factors that counter some of them. According to the 2021 Tech Review report by IVC , Israeli tech startups attracted a record of $25.6 Israeli tech investments 2015-2021 (source: IVC ). China: $104.4

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 29, 2014

Judy Lee – a well coiffured Taiwanese lady with an “African soul”, who was more at home scaling the corporate ladder in Africa than navigating bureaucratic hurdles in China, and who found balance in Christianity. Transformational Leaders. Future Leadership Directions.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Hong Kong – there is an expectation that there will be a rise in British Overseas passport holders from Hong Kong moving to the UK due to conditions in Hong Kong and relations with mainland China. An exception to this rule is for Irish citizens.

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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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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Other social networking, online marketing, clean-tech and bio-tech companies have fallen out of favor with some investors, fueling speculation regarding the future of the US technology sector. A growing number of skeptics are openly talking of a ‘high tech bubble’. They are not alone. Global Demand.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 27, 2011

Asia – especially in countries such as India, China, Vietnam – is fast becoming the place where many entrepreneurs, whether locally born or lured back from Silicon Valley, are setting up shop.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 31, 2013

A startup may spark from a simple idea and quickly grow in momentum due to the ease of launching a product or service. Web technologies and software expedite the process of development. They are flexible due to their small size and unrestricted as to where they may operate. New York City. It’s easy to find anything in NYC.

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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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Intellectual Property Non-disclosure Agreement Software Review Technical Review 120

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Some localization tasks are technical — adapting date and number formatting, converting currency and measurement units. Another reason to work with localization agencies rather than freelancers is their big-picture view of the technicalities involved in localizing websites, mobile apps, and digital content.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 15, 2017

by David Nagrosst, head of sales for Cyxtera Technologies in Asia Pacific, Australia and Japan. Security-focused code reviews and rigorous penetration testing are also highly recommended. Of all the security threats mentioned here, this is probably the one that requires most due diligence and is the most difficult to identify.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

In 2005 he was graduated and took a job in South Carolina working for technology company while he started his own web design company on the side. He started another company on the side while he was working during the day at a technology company. As a technologist he felt the US was “ground zero&# for technology innovation.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 12, 2013

My company, Planet Retail , conducted a comprehensive consumer research into e-commerce in 10 key countries, covering mature and emerging markets including China, Japan, India and the USA. Let’s compare the US and China. Why such heavy mobile access in China? But just how can mobiles achieve this?

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The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

Slowly but surely, however, we have a quietly emerging ‘ecosystem’ (as it is often called in tech lingo). So is the Dutch tech startup story sold short? But hedonistic pleasures aside, The Netherlands actually has a great foundation for tech entrepreneurship. Not in my view. A top-notch infrastructure.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Periodically we do portfolio reviews to evaluate whether we have enough diversified risk across the fund. One such theme was “water conservation” and we morphed it into a broader theme of agriculture technology or “ag tech” for short. We look at stage, geography and of course sector. 6SensorLabs.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 20, 2019

While a good portion of this is due to the low labor costs in countries such as India or China, there are benefits to outsourcing that go beyond time and price. Outsourcing is the future of IT technology, and it allows you: The ability to upscale and downscale your team at will. Finding A Reliable Company. Conclusion.

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Brandanew

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

For all the allegations of being non tech savvy, 55-64 year olds are driving Twitter’s growth of late with their new found enthusiasm for hashtags. 46% people check social media for reviews and details while making a purchase. If it were a country, the Republic of Facebook will only be behind China and close to India.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2021

Asia Trade Hub, based in India, Tradekey, based in Saudi Arabia, and EC21, based in South Korea, are the only pan-Asia marketplaces. Alibaba and DHgate are both based and focused on mainland China. Go4WorldBusiness is a huge marketplace with a consolidated position in India. B2B Platforms in the United States.

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thebarefootvc

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

This past May, Modi was elected Prime Minister of India in a historic election. Today, he gave a speech to a crowd of 20,000 at Madision Square Garden, outlining steps he is taking to cut bureaucratic red tape and encourage the Indian diaspora to invest back into India. In 2030, India is expected to surpass China in population.

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India China Technical Review Africa 85

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

As an enthusiast of the entrepreneurial ecosystem, and in particular the financial sector, I decided to focus and look into the list, review the fintech companies selected one by one, and understand the business models behind this industry. China, Asia’s financial capital: the country is in 2 nd place in the fintech numbers list.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 18, 2014

Although relatively few Israeli startups are focused on India, the market dynamics driving its mobile sector are worth a closer look. From a modest $200 million in bi-lateral trade in 1992 (when diplomatic relations were established), India-Israeli trade surpassed $6 billion in 2012-13. India is actually fragmented.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Thomas Clayton has started and run numerous high-tech startups in Silicon Valley. However, this primarily applies to businesses within China and India, where these big firms reside, as they rarely invest in startups outside of those two countries. As I touched on before, China and India have the most mature VC communities.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2016

The show has become my best curator of which books to read (including my favorite of last year, The Accidental Superpower ) and my go to for understanding geopolitics of: Russia, Iran, Pakistan, China, India and of course the US. But they also take on issues in science, technology and management.

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Pakistan Technical Review Iran Russia 150

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 27, 2017

However, the vast majority of bankless adults live in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and India. In India, at least 50% of the 1.3 There are only 182,000 ATMs across India with only 15% of adults using an account to make or receive payments with 72% of bank accounts showing zero balance. What are mobile payments?

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India Mobile SMS Tanzania 100

Hearpreneur

JULY 24, 2020

Every waking day, we are having tremendous changes in regulations and technology which greatly affects the way businesses operate. 2- More due to uncertainty. Due to the pandemic a lot of people lost their jobs and because of that, people have been forced to look outside of the box — to go beyond of their comfort zone.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 16, 2015

When you’re involved with numerous different companies, this can often lead to delays in certain processes due to the occasional breakdown in communication. These users, living in fast-developing countries like China, India, and Indonesia, will soon start to develop their own spending power. Targeting Global Markets.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 12, 2016

However, the Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P are expected to shake up the market due to their advanced features, hardware as well as software. These Nexus phones already beat Apple to the 1 billion India market by a couple of weeks and its favorable pricing will likely enhance its appeal in a relatively low income market.

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Austin Startup

JULY 14, 2017

Today, Silicon Valley took the Great Equalizer and established a system of inequality where only white male faces are prominently displayed in “tech media”, VC firms exclude African-Americans and sexually harass women tech entrepreneurs and we also see Silicon Valley firms talking up some “lack of pipeline” bullcrap.

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Silicon Valley Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Africa 48

Up and Running

DECEMBER 19, 2014

His argument rests on the idea that despite their increased productivity, as middle income consumers lose purchasing power due to lower wages, demand for products and services goes down. If you’re a woman or person of color in the tech industry (or perhaps both), the work environment can be problematic.

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United Arab Emirates Technical Review Silicon Valley Oregon 97

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. This doesn’t mean just more technology stuff, though we’ll get that. Over the last half a century, Silicon Valley has grown into the leading technology and innovation cluster for the United States and the world.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 12, 2016

It’s a term most of you know as being somebody who is backward or uninterested in learning new technology. You can imagine that if you had spent a lifetime gaining a vocational skill and being a member of a protected industry guild that you wouldn’t be happy with technological change. And that somebody is China. And Russia.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Accenture opened massive operations in India & China and continued its industry dominance. Investment in training, adherence to process, global knowledge sharing systems, quality control / partner reviews and campus recruitment programs that attracted the right talent. The things that always differentiated Accenture?

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Turkey Differentiation IP Technical Review 302

thebarefootvc

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Block.one’s relatively small fine given its massive raise, in my view, is not too dissimilar from the small fines that tech giants Facebook, Google and others have paid due to privacy violations. Meanwhile, Libra, the cryptocurrency announced by Facebook back in June, is facing a tumultuous start.

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SEC Technical Review Germany France 56

thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

I overviewed demographic and economic trends globally and outlined the opportunity for technology companies to access growth in the emerging markets. While many early movers have retreated from India due to low price points, the attractiveness of this user base (and engagement of that user base) is undeniable at this point.

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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. Some examples include Flipkart and Redbus in India, and Freshdiet in the US. They are still very small, but have some validation.

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thebarefootvc

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

This past May, Modi was elected Prime Minister of India in a historic election. Today, he gave a speech to a crowd of 20,000 at Madision Square Garden, outlining steps he is taking to cut bureaucratic red tape and encourage the Indian diaspora to invest back into India. In 2030, India is expected to surpass China in population.

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