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. In the USA, “near-shore” is a euphemism for connected countries, like Mexico and Canada.

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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. If you are a typical startup operation, consisting of an unpaid founder and co-founder, both working part-time, outsourcing is not likely the solution to your resource constraints.

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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. university in math or science&# (Thomas Friedman).

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

You’ve got entrepreneurs and founders who are really – a lot of them are in the very early stage of their startup. Technical founder. It’s humbling to spend time in India. When you meet with founders, do you just see all across the board, like this guy you mentioned with the mortgage, or who wants a mortgage? [00:32:26]

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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. 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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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 7, 2015

by Mark McDonald, co-founder and co-CEO of Appster. Mark McDonald is the co-founder and co-CEO of Australia’s Leading App Development Company , Appster. With Offices in San Francisco, Melbourne and India, Appster is quickly becoming a worldwide leader in mobile application development.

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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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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 19, 2020

In an interview with THE HINDU, Dna11’s Co-founder Nazim Ahmed shares that “I was working for a California-based biotech company, and had some templates of DNA images. Story of DNA art in India. In India, the DNA art was brought up by Qadir Rangawala in September. Adrian thought they looked more like art.

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Our Own Start-up

JUNE 5, 2020

Antler aims to invest in up to 40 startups within its first year in India and to build more than 150 startups in the next four years. Rajiv Srivatsa, co-founder of Urban Ladder, is joining Antler as Partner and will lead the Indian operations.

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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. In the USA, “near-shore” is a euphemism for connected countries, like Mexico and Canada.

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

MAY 27, 2014

DevDigital has offices in Nashville, Tennessee and Baroda, India. DevDigital’s India team). DevDigital purchased a small Web site programming shop in India that was being sold by one of their customers. “My ENTREPRENEURIAL PROFILE : Peter Marcum: DevDigital.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

He is the co-founder of Boast.ai, where he leveraged the Community-Led Growth model to bootstrap the company. He is also the co-founder of Traction, a community empowering over 100k innovators through connections, content, and capital. He is the co-founder of Boast.ai This is John Jansen.

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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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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Even in seventh grade in my native India, ambition boiled in me. But admission to medical school in India is highly competitive and I missed the cutoff criteria by one-tenth of a point. Here are a few tips for those who long to shake loose from their current careers and venture into something that drives their passions: 1.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 13, 2012

For the uninitiated, IIT KGP is considered one of the top technology schools in India, and it is located in the Eastern part of the country, not far from the city of Kolkata. Today, at IIT KGP, we caught a glimpse of some of the budding heroes of 21 st century India.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 1, 2013

Considering that the co-founders wasn’t too sure in 2011 when the incubator started if they could get enough quality raw startups in the Southeast Asia region to make the program work, this number seems astonishing. Other nations made up less than 1% of applications each.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 31, 2016

Both me and my co-founder, Abhishek, met in first year of collage (IIT-Bombay). Currently we are only operational in Mumbai, India and focusing on cooking and baking classes in the city. Then I decided to return to India and visited a dentist for an enquiry. The cost estimated in India was 150-180 U.S.D

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 21, 2021

My co-founder, Paul Pirner and I were old friends and craft beer lovers who had each decided (independently of one another) to adopt an alcohol-free lifestyle. India has been known for 1000’s years for health and beauty routines/ideas like Ayurveda/Yoga, which have derived inspiration from Nature.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

But if he were to lose his job, the developer would face the prospect of being forced to return to his native India, relinquishing his toehold in the States. Aaron Abram, the co-founder and vice president of business development for the mobile research service OSURV , says we should be focusing on giving benefits to our citizens.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 17, 2011

Entrepreneurs from Latin and Central America were given first priority to pitch their businesses at today's roundtable co-hosted by Innova Tiquicia and Startup Weekend Costa Rica. Adarsh Patil from Bangalore, India, presented ResortHunt. Next week, the 1M/1M roundtable will be co-hosted with TiE Midwest. Ten people paying $37.50

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Virtual reality creates a digital environment that is a copy of the real world, called digital twin, and produces a 3D environment where physical and digital objects can be visualized co-existing and interacting in real time. The three founders of DigitalTwin Technology met during the EU ICT 2017 in Budapest, Hungary.

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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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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Esteemed guests from all over India, who have found success in their entrepreneurial journey, were invited to the event to share valuable insights on their disruption journey and the problems they faced on their way to becoming a successful entrepreneur. E-Cell, IIM Kashipur embodies the entrepreneurial spirit of IIM Kashipur.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 24, 2011

Our co-host for the program was TiE Midwest, based in Chicago. Next week, the 1M/1M roundtable will be co-hosted with TiE Chennai and TiE Mumbai. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant, she writes the blog Sramana Mitra On Strategy , and is author of the Entrepreneur Journeys book series and Vision India 2020.

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 14, 2020

My inclination was that “this is a team of scrappy founders, and I like how they think.”. Several months ago I was having a conversation with my friend and former co-worker @ HiHello, Leith Abdulla , about how I am frustrated with Slack and want a tool that removes the friction for communication with the remote team.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Sachin Bansal and his business partner, Binny Bansal, launched an e-commerce site in India in 2007. Peter is the founder of Bay Street Capital Partners. Guss is 28 years old and he is the co-founder of Octane Lending. Collison co-founded Auctomatic in 2007 when he was a teenager. Today, he is worth $1 billion.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 12, 2019

Being born and raised in a country where recycling and sustainability are at the core of the society, Johannes Herrmann, the co-founder at Airinum , knows exactly how valuable fresh and breathable air is. We think of it as a free commodity, but countries like India and China prove us wrong day after day.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

In India, two female journalists launched a mobile app to allow women to report harrassment and abuse, an issue in their hometown of Delhi and throughout the world. Kiva co-founder Jessica Jackley’s latest venture Profounder is one platform that could power these transactions.

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Haystack

JUNE 29, 2018

Whether it’s angling for multi-billion dollar franchises in faraway places like India, or competing for a small startup in Boston — the gloves are off and founders in the right position stand to benefit. While I don’t know TJ well, I am super happy for him, his cofounders, colleagues, and folks in the PillPack orbit.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

from a trip to India and spoke of places with pigs and cows roaming around and no plumbing. But I did write a letter to Indira Gandhi, then prime minister of India, in 1982 before my first trip there. And how much of it was based on luck, and how I could easily have been that child in an orphanage in India. Now, the present.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 7, 2016

by Ankita Sheth, co–founder of Vista Rooms. In November 2015, Facebook Founder & CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted his paternity leave plans. However, in India, any kind of government benefits are typically restricted to rural areas or towards liberal maternal leave policies. Image credit: Father and son from Shutterstock.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

According to Hugh Mason, co-founder and CEO at JFDI.Asia , around the world accelerator programs like theirs are evolving as a consistent way to direct innovation, teach entrepreneurship and manage the risks involved. DocTree , from Singapore and India, have software for medical practice management.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 9, 2016

by Amit Damani , cofounder of Vista Rooms. Amit Damani, cofounder of Vista Rooms , when not having quintessential talks on anything entrepreneurial, runs one of the fastest growing online aggregator for budget hotels in India. Can an entrepreneur just watch a movie without thinking of start-ups? Probably not.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 10, 2020

I am originally from India but have been away from the country for almost 16 years. As a result of cross-cultural integration, I could no longer identify myself with the traits of the Young Indian lad who left India at the age of 21. I was brainstorming names with my co-founders CTO Jesse Forrest and CMO Matt Reilly.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 9, 2013

India and the Philippines had the largest number of freelancers at 340,890 and 85,621 freelancers respectively. Clients in Singapore hired most freelancers from India, United States, Pakistan, United Kingdom and Philippines. Clients in Singapore hired most freelancers from India, United States, Pakistan, United Kingdom and Philippines.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 5, 2017

Mesopotamian entrepreneurs prospered by expanding their landlocked trade routes east to the Indus Valley (modern-day India) and west to Egypt and beyond. In 2000, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos established Blue Origin. Anderson, and Mike McDowell charged a wealthy Californian $20 million for eight days of space orbit. Named after Alan B.

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A Crowded Space

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Very shortly after I joined, Greg Gretsch (now my partner at Jackson Square Ventures) co-led oDesk’s Series A along with Venky Ganesan (partner at Menlo Ventures and lead investor in Rev.com). It was an absolute honor working with such talented founders Odysseas Tsatalos and Stratis Karamanlakis and CEOs Gary Swart and Stephane Kasriel.

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