Steve Blank
MARCH 31, 2014
Fast-forward to today—Apple is the most profitable Smartphone company in the world and in Spain Android commands a market share of more than 90%. Today billions of dollars that companies could have invested in innovation are sitting in the hands of private equity funds. Its worldwide market share of Smartphones has dwindled to 5%.
Austin Startup
NOVEMBER 13, 2019
Our imagination is bounded by our experience,” Hector shared, and diversity, equity, and inclusion are critical to being able to imagine things properly. For example, content that uses Castilian Spanish (used in Spain) isn’t well-received by Latin American audiences.
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Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 9, 2011
I show charts on housing, structural unemployment, home equity re-financings that we spent meaning less spending power post crash, new housing sales, debt-to-income ratios, public-sector job problems that will cause crises in cities and states across the US. And the equity in their house isn’t rising. And you don’t see it.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 28, 2010
Summit is a hugely respected firm in Silicon Valley and a long-term “institution&# but they’re better known as more of a “private equity&# investor meaning that they do later stage investments in much larger companies that are profitable. This round was led by Kevin Spain from Emergence. 4mm in Series A. OpenCandy.
crowdSPRING Blog
NOVEMBER 26, 2010
Employee Equity: How Much? crowdSPRING designer interview – 12 Questions: Meet Rod MacGregor (Spain) – [link]. “Most businesses… don’t need more cash, they need more brains.” – @mcuban , [link]. Products that are features are going away – [link]. Unconventional startup wisdom by @mlevchin – [link].
The Next Web
MARCH 2, 2014
This was reported as being untrue by British Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (BVCA) about a year ago. With huge unemployment rates in countries like Spain, Greece and Portugal, coupled with risk-averseness and impractical education this leads to a circle of hopelessness.
Cracking the Code
JULY 5, 2016
Among them was a small company of two people in Italy called PostoInAuto (at the time, BlaBlaCar had only launched in France and Spain). Most of the consideration for these deals was equity and options, so cash is not a requirement.
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