ReadWriteStart

APRIL 14, 2011

a group of entrepreneurs from TiE Chennai gathered at the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M) Research Park campus, and we spent the next four hours discussing strategy and tactics of early-stage entrepreneurship. The product has won a national award from the president of India for its empowerment of people with disabilities.

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India Technical Review Entrepreneur Silicon Valley 126

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Now, e-commerce has had extremely slow penetration in India, one of the key reasons being the lack of reliability of the delivery and logistics chain. Another issue is that India has had no catalog shopping industry, so the consumer psyche is not used to buying products that would be delivered later. Photo by brokenarts.

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India Silicon Valley Incubator Bootstrapping 114

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Jacqueline asked an important question: how do you mitigate your working capital challenges in an e-commerce company at the very early stages without raising financing? Some examples include Flipkart and Redbus in India, and Freshdiet in the US. money for an early-stage venture catering to a foreign market is abysmally low.

Silicon Valley 117

Silicon Valley Malaysia India China 117

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

Over funding often produces bad behavior in early-stage companies. I added a dev team in India to spearhead new initiatives and design our future UI. You can’t get 5 years into one. That’s falling prey to the “ mythical man month &# line of thinking. I had built computer systems before.

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Development Team Review Technical Review Bulgaria Lean 374

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Next Badri Badrinarayanan V S, from Chennai, India, pitched DiaSof , a software-based solution for disease management of diabetes patients in India. Apparently, India has 50 million diabetic and another 40 million pre-diabetic patients. Jay does not have that yet. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant.

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Early Stage India Entrepreneur Silicon Valley 116

David Teten

AUGUST 15, 2013

The most common tactic we’ve seen from large corporations is providing a package of benefits for startups in order to build relationships with early-stage companies. This program “will help early-stage consumer health companies navigate the unique challenges of building successful growth companies.” 3) Freebies.

Startup 114

Startup Technical Support Venture Capital Balance Sheet 114

VC Cafe

DECEMBER 5, 2011

For example, you can save 7 trees in the rain forest in south america for £1, and in India you can get all you can eat curry…(see the presentation on the link below – 300 views in about 1 hour from posting!). Pound Around the World. View more presentations from Eze Vidra.

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South America Ruby India Early Stage 105

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Bottom line, early stage equity is very, very expensive. So at any point, if you are trying to raise money, and you are hearing from investors that you are too early and have too little validation, it may be a good thing. Then Liana Thompson pitched Trendy Loot , a very early stage deal site for low-end jewelry.

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Valuation Silicon Valley Pre-Money Valuation Bootstrapping 119

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Rajeev wants to build a BPO firm in a place called Bolpur in West Bengal, India. In 1M/1M, I teach the EJ Methodology which is based on my Entrepreneur Journeys research, and emphasize bootstrapping, idea validation, and crisp positioning as some of the core principles of building strong fundamentals in early stage ventures.

Cloud 117

Cloud Fractional CTO Entrepreneur Bandwidth 117

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

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Well, I have coached early stage entrepreneurs for a couple of years now - diligently, patiently - and have learned a few things. The first step is to develop some reference customers, something all early-stage startups should do. Telesales simply don't work without reference customers. Photo by tatlin.

Silicon Valley 114

Silicon Valley Technical Review Startup Early Stage 114

Scalable Startup

JANUARY 15, 2015

People in the Philippines or India or eastern europe are very low cost – $7-10/hour. 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. million dollar question. still have hope.

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Offshore Web Development Europe Web 20

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

“Early-stage business is becoming less of an art and more of a science,” he adds. The eight startups – covering the gamut of B2B, C2C, B2C and even B2B2C – are: AskAbt , from India, have a platform to manage real-time crowdsourced queries.

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Singapore New Zealand Malaysia Vietnam 157

A Crowded Space

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Early on, we would routinely get emails and chats from freelancers in Russia, Ukraine, India, Bangladesh, and the Philippines expressing tremendous thanks. Back in 2004 - 2010, he would routinely send me early stage companies to check out as part of his diligence process. Upwork had truly life-changing potential.

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San Francisco Bangladesh Ukraine Philippines 60

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 3, 2020

Vancouver executive Christopher Kape is an entrepreneur and venture capitalist who founded JAMCO Capital Partners , an early-stage investment and strategic advisory firm that focuses on a number of industries, including gaming, high-tech, food and wellness. Chris enjoys staying active and is an avid runner, biker and traveler.

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Partner Uganda Angel Investor Bulgaria 147

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

In 1M/1M, I teach the EJ Methodology which is based on my Entrepreneur Journeys research, and emphasize bootstrapping, idea validation, and crisp positioning as some of the core principles of building strong fundamentals in early stage ventures. You can pitch to be featured on my blog following these instructions. Photo by takatuka.

Cloud 115

Cloud Silicon Valley Incubator Finance 115

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.

Singapore 147

Singapore Asia China India 147

The Next Web

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

There are numerous VCs in Japan, but the landscape is still not nearly as built out as it is in India and China, and has nowhere near the level of Silicon Valley VC influence that those two countries have. In other words, you don’t see Silicon Valley bigwigs in Japan, but they’re all over India and China.

Asia 123

Asia Silicon Valley India China 123

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

So we’ve got scholarships for people who wouldn’t otherwise be able to attend—early-stage entrepreneurs, particularly those from beyond Silicon Valley; staff from small non-profits; and students. Early-stage entrepreneurs; people participating in startrup incubator or accelerator programs; and bootstrappers.

Lean 165

Lean Nebraska San Francisco Silicon Valley 165

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Gnosis India. Next Anuj Mishra with Gnosis India presented an idea of doing highly technical workshops (CAD, Robotics) for students all around India, including rural India. In today's India, people with high-end engineering skills are in high demand. I asked him to abandon this idea and find a better one.

Channel 115

Channel India Bootstrapping Silicon Valley 115

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.

Philippines 48

Philippines Vertical IP India 48

David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

VI: Revenue-based financing: The next step for private equity and early-stage investment. —– UP Fund is a rolling venture fund launched in Q4 2020, and part of global SaaS accelerator Upekkha, based in India. in idea-stage and side-hustle founders using a Convertible Income Share Agreement, or CISA.

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Equity Revenue Cofounder Colorado 78

David Teten

APRIL 6, 2015

Dr. Atul Gawande has a fascinating article on the BetterBirth Project, a rare successful effort to promote behavior change, in this case in reducing infant mortality in India. As he observes, behavior change (such as prevention) is possible, it’s just expensive.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Technical Review Non-Compete Philadelphia 60

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Leveling the playing field, companies like Uvik, a start-up in digital payments in India, are providing access and affordability to everyday entrepreneurs from every corner of the globe to build their dream. — Sajan Pillai is the CEO and Managing Partner of Season Two Ventures, an early-stage venture fund based in Southern California.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Global Technology 141

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

The premium lounge includes an online curriculum addressing the common topics specific to very early stage entrepreneurship; private roundtables that many of you have requested; customer, channel partners, and investor introductions; media and analyst access; and a variety of other value-added services to make our entrepreneurs successful.

Startup 113

Startup India Silicon Valley Incubator 113

ReadWriteStart

JULY 21, 2011

Today, Andrew Rachmell from Boca Raton, Florida, discussed peerbackers , a crowdsourced fund raising platform to help very early stage entrepreneurs raise small denomination funding ($50, $100) from friends, family, and peers to help finance the prototype development phase with about $25,000 in seed financing. peerbackers.

Affiliate 130

Affiliate San Francisco Entrepreneur India 130

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

thebarefootvc

JULY 3, 2016

New York City : NYC is growing as a startup hub; yet early stage (seed, small A rounds) institutional capital has not kept up with the local growth. This global reach is a new model of early stage venture, one that we believe we will see more of in the future. 2015EOY_FPV_v31.

North America 40

North America Early Stage New York City Portfolio 40

VC Cafe

JANUARY 14, 2022

The only countries that saw higher growth in tech investments were Germany (170%) and India (164%). India: $42 billion ??U.K.: Plenty of fresh powder in the market across stages. For the record, Startup Nation Central and Pitchbook share slightly higher numbers ($26.6 Part of a global trend. US: $330 billion ??China:

Technical Review 158

Technical Review Lock-up Period South Korea 158

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Next Laval Bhatt with Trinity Business Solutions discussed his fledgling consulting company in India offering business requirements analysis and a set of other services to IT consulting companies and a variety of other segments. Trinity Business Solutions. You can pitch to be featured on my blog following these instructions. Photo by wax115.

Bootstrapping 113

Bootstrapping IP India Silicon Valley 113

thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

New York City : NYC is growing as a startup hub; yet early stage (seed, small A rounds) institutional capital has not kept up with the local growth. This global reach is a new model of early stage venture, one that we believe we will see more of in the future.

North America 40

North America Early Stage New York City Portfolio 40

VC Cafe

JULY 21, 2020

GV (formerly Google Ventures) – Started in 2009, GV is Alphabet’s venture capital fund, focused primarily on early stage in diverse fields: from life sciences and healthcare to robotics and entereprise tech. Gradient Ventures – an early stage fund backed by Alphabet, investing exclusively in AI first companies.

Technical Review 131

Technical Review Startup Early Stage Cloud 131

Austin Startup

OCTOBER 10, 2017

For example, Naya Ventures is an early-stage VC focused mainly on US and India-based companies, with a $50m fund and reportedly working on the next. further serves to prevent promising early-stage firms and scrappy boot-strapped ventures from getting the full love and attention they may deserve.

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Dallas Austin Texas Cofounder 60

K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 12, 2015

This includes, but is not limited to money from China, India, Middle-East and also from “retail” investors (or otherwise unsophisticated investors who are attracted to a market simply because of the amount of press/media attention it gets). This means more noise in the system for seed stage investors.

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Venture Capital Seed Stage LP Valuation 48

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Then Amit Gurung pitched a business plan to create a distribution channel for product companies trying to cater to the rural base-of-the-pyramid (BPO) market in India. Distribution Channel for Product Companies. You can pitch to be featured on my blog following these instructions. Photo by designkryt.

India 115

India Silicon Valley Incubator Bootstrapping 115

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 28, 2010

In 1M/1M, I teach the EJ Methodology which is based on my Entrepreneur Journeys research, and emphasize bootstrapping, idea validation, and crisp positioning as some of the core principles of building strong fundamentals in early stage ventures. You can pitch to be featured on my blog following these instructions. Photo by mjamesno.

Partner 117

Partner Belgium Portugal Bootstrapping 117

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 6, 2011

This curriculum is based on the various questions entrepreneurs have asked me over these 64 sessions, spanning financing, positioning, customer acquisition, marketing, sales, channel, and various other early stage, startup-related issues. As usual, then, I worked with three entrepreneurs working on specific businesses. Mava Consulting.

Vertical 115

Vertical Web San Francisco Entrepreneur 115