thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

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).

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

Today, the end of Communism in Eastern Europe seems so obvious, but in my home country of Romania, until the day Nicolae Ceausescu was shot dead, I thought he would rule forever. In 2012, most everyone takes the Internet for granted and believes its emergence to be a logical, evolutionary step. Final thought.

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Romania Software Review Cloud Mobile 77

The Startup Magazine

JULY 20, 2021

Betancourt Lopez put together a group of investors, including Félix Ruiz and Hugo Arévalo, who were the founders of Tuenti, a social networking app. He also knew that he needed a new approach to marketing the company that had been primarily an internet company. He invested heavily in Internet marketing, especially on Facebook.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 28, 2011

Un-Social Networking: Martin Lindstrom of Brand Sense says we are suffering a little from digital emptiness. There are 5 senses, and we still can’t experience 3 of them on the internet – so we must complete the connection / transaction off line…. The internet is trying to mimic the real world. It’s about being there.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

Today, the end of Communism in Eastern Europe seems so obvious, but in my home country of Romania, until the day Nicolae Ceausescu was shot dead, I thought he would rule forever. In 2012, most everyone takes the Internet for granted and believes its emergence to be a logical, evolutionary step. Final thought.

Romania 44

Romania Software Review Cloud Mobile 44

Austin Startup

JANUARY 31, 2018

But rather than being on a public text chat, the user has an option to “form a private room” and invite friends via a social network or a direct link. That’s a big fundamental change seeing that since the start of the internet and sites like broadcast.com and YouTube, we, the users, have always had a public text chat.

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

But what shaped their world was coming of age with the internet, mobiles devices, and social media. It’s still early, but social scientists predict that educational technology, social networks, and streaming services will frame their world. The last two were the internet and mobile phones.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

The internet can provide a whole host of innovative strategies for businesses of any size to break into foreign markets. Content which may be perfectly acceptable in the USA or Europe may cause offence in other parts of the world. The idea of selling overseas is attractive to many small and medium-sized businesses.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 20, 2011

trillion GDP of Europe in total. By 2015, 32% of the population will use a mobile phone to access the internet. However, there are also benefits for being in Europe – Hussein Kanji, Nick Halstead and others have answered this in the Quora question: Is Europe just for losers? 4) The concept of networking is new here.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 17, 2013

Many Internet marketplaces also have a rake or vig. Before discussing the merits of low rakes versus high rakes, let us first take a look at current examples of different rakes across the Internet. Booking.com was not always the online leader in Europe – in fact they were a disrupter stealing the flag from other large incumbents.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

It was 2002 – the “dog days&# of the Internet and we were running out of cash. Getting on the front cover of the most prominent VC magazine in Europe (was called Tornado Insider). It’s a very tough decision to walk away from a senior role at what I consider one of the most successful tech companies of Internet era.

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Entrepreneur Startup Salary Egypt 384

The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

We boast the world’s second highest fixed broadband Internet subscription rate only an inch behind Sweden. Ninety-four percent of households are equipped with a computer and have Internet access (the others are still playing 8-bit Nintendo). But if we’re honest, Amsterdam is currently outdone by several places in Europe.

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Netherlands Technical Review Stock Silicon Valley 143

Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2011

Ben and his partner Marc Andreessen (the founder of Netscape and author of the first commercial web browser on the Internet ) are the definition of Smart Money. Their firm, Andreessen/Horowtiz , has been prescient enough to invest in social networks, consumer and mobile applications and the cloud long before others.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 22, 2012

It’s already coming close to saturating the limits of world Internet usage. For example, there are five major markets where Facebook is not the top social network : China, Russia, South Korea, Japan, and Vietnam.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 13, 2012

Then Gaurav Dahake from IIT KGP pitched BUYHatke , a penny auction site that is considering three primary segments with a consumer-to-consumer e-commerce business model: net-savvy housewives, IT and BPO professionals, and college students with Internet access. Univect Education Solutions. Instead, he should turn his talents elsewhere.

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India Entrepreneur Asia Programming 117

gigaom.com

JUNE 18, 2012

Earlier in June, two former Facebook employees who help create the SQL-like Hive interface for Hadoop while at the social network launched Qubole, a hosted version of Hive that runs on Amazon’s cloud computing infrastructure. Social Networks. Previous 10 innovators changing the game for Internet infrastructure.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2022

With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. AngelList has featured over 3 million businesses for potential investors in a format that is, effectively, a social network for entrepreneurs and angels. But now to answer one of the most common questions I get “How do I find angel investors?”

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

It was 2002 – the “dog days&# of the Internet and we were running out of cash. Getting on the front cover of the most prominent VC magazine in Europe (was called Tornado Insider). It’s a very tough decision to walk away from a senior role at what I consider one of the most successful tech companies of Internet era.

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Entrepreneur Startup Salary Egypt 176

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

But if youre in the US for example, then your development cost will be anything from 5-10 times higher than offshoring to India or Eastern Europe. I am the co-founder of Underratedsites.com Posted by: Sarah | September 10, 2007 3:08 PM I dont see why owning your own server equipment makes much sense for perhaps 80%-90% of Internet companies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2019

With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. AngelList has featured over 3 million businesses for potential investors in a format that is, effectively, a social network for entrepreneurs and angels. But now to answer one of the most common questions I get “How do I find angel investors?”

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Burnt out and spent, Ferris decided to go on a two-week vacation in Europe and delegated his work to a team of virtual assistants. If I wanted to outsource back office operations to the Philippines, the cost would range from 7 to twelve dollars per hour, and this includes salaries, benefits, power, internet, rent, and contingencies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. Although relatively new, AngelList already has featured over 42,000 businesses and provided over 28,000 introductions to potential investors in a format that''s, effectively, a social network for entrepreneurs and Angels. Keiretsu Forum.

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North America Rhode Island Accredited Investor Angel Investor 289

www.ere.net

JULY 15, 2012

Social networking applications (SNAs). Networking. Sales and Guest Relations Manager for CIS, Eastern Europe & Greece. Direct contacts, competitor known. Indirect contacts, competitor known. No contacts, competitor known. Competitor unknown. Secondary sourcing. SIG posting. WWW search engines. Trade shows. Interview.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2017

With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. AngelList has featured over 3 million businesses for potential investors in a format that is, effectively, a social network for entrepreneurs and angels. But now to answer one of the most common questions I get “How do I find angel investors?”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2013

With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. The format is more social networking in nature, and they also will soon provide a recruiting portal for crowdfunding with unaccredited investors, now that the US JOBS Act has been passed. Here are the largest flocks: Gust (formerly AngelSoft).

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

There hasn’t been such a full list of Israeli startups coming to Europe since Barcelona’s World Mobile Congress. The UK is Israel’s second largest export market following the US, but Israeli startups often ‘forget Europe’ when it comes to Internationalizing their product. Conferences are social.

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Securities and Exchange Commission Technical Review Software Review 133

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2009

In the past 6 months we’ve heard from Dmitry Shapiro on the future of online video, Ian Rogers on the future music model, David Sacks on the future of social networking and Michael Crandell on where Cloud Computing is headed. Internet users in US – 225 million, mobile 260MM. All have been fascinating. slide 29).

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 29, 2014

They said: “Good training for the work environment in Europe.”. This all, of course, indicates that younger internet users. Gigya.com (Review plugin that uses social network login vs standard login. Very useful for practice!”. Almost a carbon copy for the real aptitude test.”. Simple enough, right? Nothing too flashy.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

Id been on the internet since I was playing MUDs as a kid, but by 1999 I felt Id already missed the boat. Could we have built the first college-based social network five years before Facebook ? Berislav - I'd be delighted to learn more; I'm planning to be in Europe this fall around that time, with any luck.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

However, step outside of that bubble into Europe, Africa and Asia and you’ll find that an almost-copycat service done in a local language is niche enough to make you a sweet business. Here’s an early example: Tuenti launched in Spain as the Spanish social network when Facebook was only just allowing 13-year-old school kids on in the USA.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Instead of spending 4 years at university, I spend 4 years starting 2 internet companies that failed. What is the first step in creating an internet-based business (After planning) ? I like to outsource from Eastern Europe – something about their code that just seems more throughout and requires less hand holding.

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Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

VC Cafe

JULY 2, 2012

The two companies have collaborated for a long time, with Facebook using Face.com’s technology to help users tag the faces of friends in pictures they upload on the social network with Face.com’s Photo Tagger service. FOUR ISRAELIS CHOSEN FOR “GIRLS IN TECH 100 IN EUROPE”. PRIMUS CAPITAL ACQUIRES AOD.

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Reid Hoffman

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Network effects occur when increased usage of a good or service leads to an increase in its value, which in turn makes it more attractive and this leads to further increases in usage. Social networks such as Facebook or LinkedIn are a clear example of the power of this long-term advantage, as are two-sided marketplaces such as Airbnb or eBay.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

After rapid international expansion across several continents, as the founding team brought Silicon Valley’s global ambition into Europe, and the extension of its offering to buses and multimodal transportation, BlaBlaCar is preparing for the travel rebound expected as the world reopens. I wanted to bring that level of ambition to Europe.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

owing to projected weakness in the economies of Israel’s main trading partners, the United States and Europe. PMC-Sierra, a premier Internet infrastructure semiconductor solution provider, is purchasing Wintegra Inc. , The Bank of Israel has also forecast 4% growth in 2010, though 2011 growth is seen slightly lower at 3.8%

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

In consumer internet, that usually means one front-end user-facing developer, one back-end server-side developer, and ultimately a business person (details will come in a later post). I see lots of great execution on the Internet and I hear lots of chatter that Ideas are dime a dozen but I don’t see many new or innovative Ideas.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Before I try gazing into my crystal ball to see what 2011 will bring for the consumer internet industry, let me first see how I did on last years predictions: 1. Social games overflow out of Facebook. Twitter continues to grow in usage, overtaking Myspace to become the third largest social network in the world.

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