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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

thebarefootvc

Powered by cell phones and social networking platforms, we saw revolutions taking place, businesses being transformed and our daily lives made more convenient (if we could tear ourselves away from our Facebook and Twitter updates). As of year-end, Foursquare had over 15 million users, with an exponential growth rate globally.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Spotlight On IIT Kharagpur, India

ReadWriteStart

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. It gives me great satisfaction to observe this evolution, and play a small role in shepherding these young entrepreneurs along. Optimum Mobility Services.

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The New Order of Silicon Valley: Forget the Silicon Part

Diego Basch

Then social networks, and finally mobile computing. However, from the point of view of an investor or entrepreneur these are not the insane land grabs that we experienced in past decades. build an execution team wherever convenient (could be Asia, Europe, India, anywhere in the US, who knows).

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Five case studies you'll see at the Lean Startup Conference 2015

Startup Lessons Learned

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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Building a mobile app startup is about solving problems, not chasing ideas

The Next Web

Rahul Varshneya is the co-founder of Arkenea , a company committed to helping entrepreneurs and businesses build, market and monetize their mobile apps. Building a mobile app startup is the “I want to build an Internet startup” of the late 1990s. Think Linkedin – social networking concept adapted to the business industry.

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Seth Sternberg – Meebo

Both Sides of the Table

It became a theme in my keynote at Caltech on the future of social networking. He knew he was an entrepreneur because he couldn’t stop thinking about ideas. Mark then talked about Crittercism, a mobile feedback solution. What is your mobile strategy? We then captured this conversation again on camera.

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Millennials In Asia Are Ambitious And Entrepreneurial: VISA Study

YoungUpstarts

In the case of Indonesia, this is overwhelming – 83-percent of Indonesian Millennials say they see themselves as entrepreneurs of the future. Even more encouragingly, 8-percent of those surveyed were already entrepreneurs! Well, unsurprisingly, online social networking is huge with this lot.