ReadWriteStart

JULY 17, 2023

The acquisition will help Sheela Foam enter the fast-growing branded furniture market and expand its presence in the furniture industry. Furlenco is a Bengaluru-based furniture and appliance rental service that operates in more than a dozen cities across India. The deal is a win-win situation for both Furlenco and Sheela Foam.

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India Acquisition Merger Curation 104

ReadWriteStart

MAY 5, 2011

First up, Satya Choppadhandi from Bangalore, India, presented Evolutech Networks, a company that manufactures wireless energy monitoring devices for the smart home. The smart home business is still in the very early stages in India, and it will take some time before Evolutech ramps up. These resellers buy devices from the U.S.

Costa Rica 115

Costa Rica Incubator Silicon Valley India 115

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

He taught me, amongst other things, the benefit of “ top down thinking &# that changed the way I analyzed markets, companies and people. We worked together at Andersen Consulting between 1996-99 when the markets were booming. See, Mark, in a booming market you can never tell the winners from the losers.

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Turkey Differentiation IP Technical Review 302

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

First up was Brad Barrett presenting GrillGrate , a grill accessory with which Brad has built a year-to-date revenue of $400,000. I will work with him on his inventory financing strategy. Now, the Web self-service software market is very crowded with major players like RightNow already deeply entrenched. GrillGrate.

India 114

India Silicon Valley Incubator Bootstrapping 114

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 25, 2019

The question now is: what are the best markets for startups? Global economic growth is determined by powerful markets, which are becoming more and more sophisticated. These are the fastest-growing markets for aspiring entrepreneurs who are looking to make it. China is largely considered the most attractive market.

Russia 113

Russia China United Kingdom 113

David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

Thirty-four VC firms in OpenVC call themselves “early-stage” Yet, 30% of those don’t actually invest in pre-revenue startups. The modal VC thesis is: “We invest in great teams addressing large markets with disruptive solutions” Who invests in lousy teams addressing tiny markets with outdated solutions?

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Cofounder Venture Capital Deal Flow 78

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

In How To Defend Your Dream Against All Odds , Alex and I explore the company's journey to $200 Million in revenue, while their VCs wrote them off. Zoho is already over $100 million in revenue and is seeing tremendous traction. So, please don't get discouraged; there are many paths to success. Now, on to today's roundtable: Parallel6.

North Carolina 116

North Carolina San Diego Entrepreneur Balance Sheet 116

Life Beyond Code

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

One Million by One Million is a global initiative that aims to nurture a million entrepreneurs reach a million dollars each in annual revenue and beyond by 2020, thereby creating a trillion dollars in global GDP and ten million jobs. This, of course, doesn’t mean that we discourage entrepreneurs to seek financing.

Programming 116

Programming Silicon Valley Bootstrapping Technical Review 116

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Whether it is in the emerging markets or in the U.S., They already have several customers including some telcos, and are at about $350,000 in revenues. I call it drip-financing. In 1M/1M, our preferred financing strategy is customers. Because customer financing equals revenue, not equity. Kir Devries.

Cloud 115

Cloud Silicon Valley Incubator Finance 115

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 16, 2016

It was a way for us to stay creative and it also brought in some revenue. I always encourage entrepreneurs to get creative with sourcing finance. I applied this method to every single one of our hires and today our team consists of 22 people from United States, India, United Kingdom, Ukraine, Greece and the Philippines.

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Greece United Kingdom Ukraine Philippines 100

Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

I’ve seen the Valley grow from Sunnyvale to Santa Clara to today where it stretches from San Jose to South of Market in San Francisco. But in the 20 th century, dominated by hardware, software, and life sciences, technology swings inside an existing market happened slowly — taking years, not months. or Euro-centric phenomenon.

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Restful Silicon Valley Puerto Rico San Jose 243

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 27, 2011

For a more elaborate explanation of the deal, please read my blog post 1M/1M: Alternative Financing For Startups Using A Sales Channel Partner. I have discussed at length why revenue sharing channel deals may serve as perfectly fine alternatives to raising equity (or even complements) because of their non-dilutive nature. Safarclick.

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Dilution Revenue Finance Entrepreneur 114

Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

My finance career began with a long commute and a cramped cubicle. When I moved back to Australia I identified a gap in the market as these clear aligner businesses were not mainstream here. Hence, digital marketing sets the top rank in the minds of business owners, which is the best way to promote their brand in the new normal.

Entrepreneur 146

Entrepreneur Software Review LLC Web Development 146

Cracking the Code

APRIL 21, 2021

It was a difficult time of exploration and iteration, as many founders experience, and it took 10 long years to build the company from $0 to $1mm in revenue, a difficult phase. After going $0 to $1mm in their first 10 years, UiPath has now hockey-sticked to over $600mm in revenue in 2020, and the automation market is still in early innings.

Leadership 62

Leadership Hockey Stick North America Europe 62

thebarefootvc

JANUARY 27, 2014

A couple of days later, the Journal reported that Snapdeal, an Indian e-commerce site, was in talks to raise a round of financing (led by Credit Suisse) that would potentially value the company at $1 billion. Further, while the public markets are opening up to IPOs once again, companies take much longer to IPO than in previous cycles.

Technical Review 63

Technical Review Valuation Venture Capital Investment Bankers 63

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 7, 2010

That is debt financing that converts into equity at the Series A valuation once the price for that is set. (I First up was Siobhan O'Brien with OnTrack Imaging , a medical diagnostic imaging venture catering to the horse owners and trainers market. Sub-$2 million pre-money, it is better to bootstrap. Value Of Insight Consulting, Inc.

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Valuation Silicon Valley Pre-Money Valuation Bootstrapping 119

Hearpreneur

JULY 1, 2020

Several “experts” in marketing and advertising, and IP lawyers, tried to talk me into changing it. My journey building the software naturally led into starting a marketing consulting firm that helps SMEs rank on page 1 for their highest value keywords. The word is popular in South India. Buttercloth was born.

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Naming Entrepreneur New Hampshire LLC 147

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Sequoia has financed them. Rajeev wants to build a BPO firm in a place called Bolpur in West Bengal, India. Its mission is to help a million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond, build $1 trillion in sustainable global GDP, and create 10 million jobs. Next, Rajeev Pareek discussed his rural BPO idea.

Cloud 117

Cloud Fractional CTO Entrepreneur Bandwidth 117

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 24, 2011

The discussion today was around Social Media financing and go-to-market strategy. Additional work in figuring out the precise go-to-market consumer, academic institution, or enterprise - each is a different business), and consequent business model and pricing model will help enhance the company's valuation.

Illinois 114

Illinois Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Chicago 114

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

and the emergence of new industries, markets and customers. In the 1920’s companies moved from monolithic functional organizations (sales, marketing, manufacturing, purchasing, etc.) His insights about how large companies are using the Valley is the core of this series of four blog posts.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Venture Capital United States Technical Review 120

Cracking the Code

MARCH 12, 2010

Given the predictability of SaaS GAAP revenues on a quarterly basis, the fact that the 08/09 projections were unchanged is not a surprise. Given that the revenues are not growing very fast, this means that most of the companies have reduced their sales force and focused on productivity improvement. Labels: SaaS , sales and marketing.

Software Review 63

Software Review Technical Review Cloud Forecast 63

K9 Ventures

JUNE 5, 2015

In that presentation, I said that Seed is not the first round of financing any more and that K9’s investments were mostly “pre-seed”. So I mostly kept my opinion within a small closed group and let my LPs know that K9’s strategy was to *not* change our strategy despite the pressures of the market. Tech companies generate a lot of buzz.

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Seed Stage Venture Capital Early Stage Valuation 48

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 16, 2015

The company is also looking to add over 100 jobs over coming years to “meet the growing demand from its users, partners and advertisers” in Asia Pacific, signalling that it is hedging its bets that continued growth – in terms of users and revenue – is likely to come from this part of the world.

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Singapore Asia Design Japan 100

K9 Ventures

JULY 21, 2016

As a kid I used to trek down to the “electronics bazaar” in New Delhi, known as Lajpat Rai Market , and go store to store to try and find the components I needed for whatever I was building. Almost all the iconic startup hardware products that you see on the market are designed by professional industrial designers.

Software Review 48

Software Review Forecast Portfolio Distribution 48

Up and Running

MAY 16, 2016

In 2013, North America accounted for just over 40 percent of the global home health care revenue. While North America may be the current hotbed for home health care businesses, the fastest growing region is in Asia-Pacific, where the markets expect a compound annual growth rate of 9.7 Financing and cash flow. Rental expenses.

North America 95

North America United States Technical Review America 95

Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 3, 2010

The online video networks are doing terrific business, and even Yahoo is benefiting from increased brand spend, seeing revenue growth for the first time in a while. While the revenue numbers may not be huge in 2010, there is certainly promise to the business models that are developing on these platforms.

Internet 114

Internet eCommerce Advertising Flash 114

Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

12 cloud IPOs in the past 2 years: One from Europe SaaS companies are thriving in the public markets, with their aggregated market cap grew 350% since 2011, and 12 cloud companies going public in the past 24 months. billion in revenues (growing 39% year-on-year) and $25B of market cap. in the US, $2.6B

Europe 83

Europe Cloud API 83

Steve Blank

JUNE 10, 2010

At the end of 1980, IBM decided to compete in the rapidly growing personal computer market. They were smart enough to realize that IBM’s existing processes and procedures wouldn’t be agile enough to innovate in this new market. Success for this new division meant generating substantial revenue and profit for company.

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Silicon Valley Entrepreneur United States New York City 331

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 30, 2011

India and Israel pitch their businesses. First, Senthil Natchimuthu from Coimbatire, India, discussed directdialogs. Senthil is doing a small business marketing solution that combines loyalty programs with email marketing and campaign management. directdialogs. The site's unique visitors are at about 600,000 per month.

India 115

India Entrepreneur Silicon Valley 115

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

And while many of the people bringing you the great applications and infrastructure you now rely on are benevolent, there is of course an inbuilt incentive for these companies to use their scale advantages to continue to dominate the markets they’re in, making it harder for upstarts to compete. It’s Hobbesian economics 101.

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Government Distribution Stock United States 280

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 14, 2010

At today's roundtable we had some intensive discussions around market sizing and its impact on financing. You have heard, I am sure, that venture capitalists only invest in very large market opportunities - $500 million to $1 billion. Raymond is wondering why he cannot attract financing. Is that a $20 million market? $30

Bootstrapping 114

Bootstrapping Marketing Angel Investor Silicon Valley 114

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

The daily deal and group buying market has really heated up, with numerous sites offering variations on the basic value proposition. As a result, the expectation is that you have to figure out a way to get to some level of momentum on your own (by bootstrapping) or with small doses of angel money - "drip financing" so to speak.

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Channel India Bootstrapping Silicon Valley 115

ReadWriteStart

MAY 4, 2011

Pune has become a hotbed of product entrepreneurship in India, and I was curious to see what kinds of ventures are cooking there. Manoj has deep domain knowledge in the CCS market segment and has designed a solution that addresses the missing real-time data dashboard functionality of the industry.

India 116

India Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Massachusetts 116

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Nonetheless, in the last couple of years, the flow of first-time entrepreneurs who come out with the misconception that Entrepreneurship = Financing has not abated. Folks, please understand a simple point: Business schools, when they teach you entrepreneurship, teach you about financing. Eventbin.com. Jay does not have that yet.

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Early Stage India Entrepreneur Silicon Valley 116

Up and Running

AUGUST 23, 2017

We’ve learned a few things that might be helpful to other businesses that are looking to scale, especially for those eying international markets. and European markets. As an Indian startup, it was an uphill climb for us to gain credibility in foreign markets. Understanding the nuances of international marketing.

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Design Startup Social Media India 121

ReadWriteStart

JULY 21, 2011

Earlier, of course, we covered AngelList at length , also a crowd sourcing venture in the angel financing space, and this week, we have covered SecondMarket , which is powering Facebook's private market capital raising. When two out of four pitches in a session are from the same category, it most certainly makes me take notice.

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Affiliate San Francisco Entrepreneur India 130

ReadWriteStart

JULY 28, 2011

An ad-supported network, the company has achieved over $1 million in revenue and is profitable. It is currently evaluating options and strategies for growth and the possibility of additional financing. Healthcare e-Market. I like the idea, but to go from idea to financing, there is a long road for Adarsh to travel still.

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Incubator Silicon Valley Malaysia Entrepreneur 128