The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Many Asian entrepreneurs tell me that they want to raise funds from Silicon Valley firms because they perceive the valuations to be higher. 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. Sequoia , Accel , NEA , etc.).

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 31, 2016

Being in love with your business, when you’re an entrepreneur, is even better. Although there are days when tossing in your hat seems like a viable option, remembering how much you love your “job” can quickly snap an entrepreneur out of that mentality. We asked some entrepreneurs “why they started their businesses.”

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Entrepreneur India Cofounder Technical Review 48

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. Marks thinks the bill would spur innovation and growth and encourage the retention of a very talented crop of foreign-born entrepreneurs. Howard Marks. “We need it badly.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Now, as for today's entrepreneurs, first up today was Hardika Shah presenting Mesoloan, a small enterprise loan program for Indian entrepreneurs in the $2,000-$20,000 loan size bracket. It turns out that in my Vision India 2020 book, I have a similar project called FDBI. million financing round for.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

Two weeks after Brad’s post I was at the 140 Conference in LA and I held open office hours for any entrepreneur who wanted to spend 15 minutes talking with a VC about their business. But it turns out I met a bunch of really interesting entrepreneurs. But TWTFelipe is an entrepreneur. Irony, hey?). He was fortunate.

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Technical Review Canada Green South Carolina 282

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. This hustle is familiar to entrepreneurs worldwide.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

This is a great initiative by UK government to digitize the construction industry. The government has compelled to all construction sites to be on BIM (Building Information Modeling) level 1 and soon to be on BIM level 2. The government here fully supports startups to grow and stay by providing funds and a stage to grow.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

MARCH 16, 2012

Ran across a facsinating article this morning in Mail Online India. The actual products are interesting, but what strikes me about this at a different level is that India might be a hotbed for new innovation. They have a grass roots innovation program that helps find and fund inventors and entrepreneurs.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 31, 2015

Entrepreneur Ryan Hoover transformed an email list experiment into a venture-funded startup community with tens of thousands of active members. Prerna began her startup journey after leaving a job as a management consultant, and launched Yaari, a youth-oriented social network in India. Here are some of our favorites: 1.

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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. Some examples include Flipkart and Redbus in India, and Freshdiet in the US. First up today was Jacqueline Floro-Pierre with ShopTranslated from China.

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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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Technical Review Venture Capital India Startup 93

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

If you’re an entrepreneur planning to start a business outside of the United States, you might be looking for assistance and resources that are available in your specific country. There are plenty of local resources and services available to help entrepreneurs in their local areas around the globe. It looked promising.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

We asked some entrepreneurs and business owners, why they started their businesses: #1 – I Have a Dream. I was the first social entrepreneur in the coffee world. I had taken photographs with film cameras as a child in India, but I never had any particularly good equipment. Image Credit: Enrico Bratta.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

2011 was finally the year when the media spotlight shone on how under-represented women are in almost all power structures in business, government, technology and media – and how crucial it is that we leverage the leadership skill set that they bring to the table to tackle the problems facing the world today.

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Technical Review India Mobile Hockey Stick 110

David Teten

AUGUST 15, 2013

Dell’s Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) Program offers “custom software and hardware integration, escalated 24/7 technical support, dedicated customer care agents, and complimentary access to local, pre-sale and enterprise consultants.”. 4) Accelerators. SAP also has a dedicated fund for startups using HANA.

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Startup Technical Support Venture Capital Balance Sheet 114

thebarefootvc

JANUARY 27, 2014

I think that later stage valuations are frothy (for reasons I explain below) while earlier stage valuations are starting to stabilize from previous highs (with the exception of the superstar serial entrepreneur) - turns out scaling in a sea of competition (both startup and entrenched) is not so easy.

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Technical Review Valuation Venture Capital Investment Bankers 63

Growthink Blog

JUNE 6, 2011

Ridley proves conclusively in this wonderful book, for all of this it is the entrepreneurs and the innovators that we have to thank. And thank your local, neighborhood entrepreneur. In an awe-inspiring tour de force of exposition, Mr. Ridley takes the reader all the way back through human economic history.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 7, 2016

Sweden is one of the few countries in the world, where fathers must take at least two months off before the child is 8 years old to receive the government benefits. However, in India, any kind of government benefits are typically restricted to rural areas or towards liberal maternal leave policies.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 2, 2020

In fact, many governments offer great incentives for those with a great idea, and you could be given a significant boost right from the start. As of 2019, the lowest labor costs currently stood in Vietnam, India, and Indonesia. Your overseas expansion business might be able to fit in perfectly! You might receive great incentives.

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OnlyOnce

JANUARY 2, 2011

But still, the subject doesn’t always translate as well to the average entrepreneur as microeconomics does – most business people have good intuitive understandings of supply, demand, and pricing. Fiscal Policy vs. Monetary Policy – Fiscal Policy is manipulating the economy through government taxing and spending.

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China Startup Offshore Silicon Valley 74

Campus Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Our friend Tom Friedman of the NYTimes.com highlights that it is morning in India , not America. While an observational piece from an opinion journalist, there is enough credible evidence elsewhere to support his take on India enthusiasm for work, growth… the future! India has flourished ever since. exporters.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Being an entrepreneur or business owner has its share of ups and downs. While the downs can be pretty low the ups always seem to triumph for a true entrepreneur at heart. Milestones are what entrepreneurs and business owners work towards. Running an eCom business in India, a developing nation is a bumpy ride.

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Entrepreneur Technical Review Africa Revenue 142

Hearpreneur

AUGUST 9, 2020

The move is not a stretch for Ella , who has spent her life as a social entrepreneur, philanthropist, and humanitarian. In our livelihoods work, we create initiatives that enhance earning potential for workers, micro-entrepreneurs, artisans, and farmers by collaborating with employers, worker collectives, and government agencies.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

During this week's roundtable, once again, we had an international group of entrepreneurs presenting from Buenos Aires, Argentina; Warsaw, Poland; Geneva, Switzerland; Sherbrooke, Canada; Oakland, California; and Austin, Texas. Please note, that I work exclusively with 1M/1M entrepreneurs. You can register to attend here.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Techstars, the worldwide network that helps entrepreneurs succeed, announced the 10 startups selected for the 2020 class of Techstars Austin. ABOUT TECHSTARS: The Techstars Worldwide Network helps entrepreneurs succeed. Large companies make connections with the best startups to future-proof their business. billion.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 11, 2018

The clients, competitors, providers, intermediaries — distributors — and other public (such as the government or the press), are known as the company’s micro-moments. Dishan Jayasinha is a Sri Lankan-born American, MD turned entrepreneur, creative mastermind and humanitarian. They have a direct relationship with the brand.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The move is not a stretch for Ella , who has spent her life as a social entrepreneur, philanthropist, and humanitarian. In our livelihoods work, we create initiatives that enhance earning potential for workers, micro-entrepreneurs, artisans, and farmers by collaborating with employers, worker collectives, and government agencies.

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Jordan Bangladesh India Mexico 62

Hearpreneur

AUGUST 2, 2020

We asked some entrepreneurs and business owners, why they started their businesses: #1- Replicate what I was doing for others. We saw that many food entrepreneurs had these same problems. India has been known for 1000’s of years for health and beauty routines/ideas like Ayurveda/Yoga, which have derived inspiration from Nature.

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Entrepreneur Technical Review South Korea United States 147

Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

The university found government contracts profitable as the government reimbursed their overhead charges (their indirect costs.) Over a hundred government contractors reviewed Stanford’s work on tubes and systems. The lab would repeat the conference the following week for government agencies doing military work.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

OrangeScape positions itself as an Application Platform As A Service (APaaS) provider, and has some marquee customers in India including Unilever, Citibank, Pfizer, AstraZeneca, and Sterlite. I have long been a champion of Indian product companies, urging the entrepreneurs to think beyond labor arbitrage and outsourcing.

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Entrepreneur India Silicon Valley Massachusetts 114

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 12, 2012

In Silicon Valley, foreign-born entrepreneurs have founded half the region’s startups in recent years - and kept the U.S. We will have thousands and thousands of entrepreneurs starting their companies in other countries when they could have been starting them here,” Wadhwa says. economy moving forward. We’re about to find out.

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Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Green India 152

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 11, 2011

As Nigeria’s former finance minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala understands how trade, aid, private investment and government support all impact an economy differently. Just because a video lasts less than five minutes, that doesn’t mean it has little to offer budding entrepreneurs. Try a few of these for starters!

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Government restrictions and fears of infection pushed companies that had previously held out to accept remote working, and many discovered that it’s more manageable than they had expected. Still, COVID-19 helped tip the balance towards a globally distributed model. Factors that are tipping the scales. Create a cohesive team.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, India and some other countries have been privy to the on-demand bubble, so to speak. While Uber has had several problems with both, governments and passenger based complaints, Grab decided to improve on both fronts. Co-operation and Synergy. It also equally focuses on improving their drivers’ lifestyles.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Prior to Sisu, Yarina founded a medical device non-profit working with rural mobile clinics in India. Governments are also investing heavily in health care to combat chronic and critical illnesses.” It was also a confidence boost that such an accomplished entrepreneur believed in our vision. and Indian companies.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 4, 2018

Unfortunately much of the press coverage missed the mark, with many headlines claiming that India was banning cryptocurrencies. Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, during annual budget conversations, reiterated that bitcoin was not legal tender, and that the government would be clamping down on illegal activity using cryptocurrencies.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 12, 2012

In Silicon Valley, foreign-born entrepreneurs have founded half the region’s startups in recent years - and kept the U.S. We will have thousands and thousands of entrepreneurs starting their companies in other countries when they could have been starting them here,” Wadhwa says. economy moving forward. We’re about to find out.

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