The Next Web

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

The Infosysian had unknowingly, in the comment, revealed a subtle fact about India’s technology sector that is hurting it from the inside—there are too many managers managing things. Enter India. He believes this is why India is at the top of the technology services space, but doesn’t seem to lead when it comes to creating products.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2020

Outsourcing is defined as contracting the work to another company, usually located in a developing country, like India, China, or Eastern Europe. If you are a typical startup operation, consisting of an unpaid founder and co-founder, both working part-time, outsourcing is not likely the solution to your resource constraints.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2009

We had 6 developers, 1 head of product management, 1 QA in India and me. I did almost every VC meeting myself save for when one of my co-founders, Tim Barker, was in town. I did all of the sales myself. I did our marketing and didn’t use any outsiders.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 1, 2011

I will be traveling in India in April, and doing live roundtables in three cities: Chennai (April 9) , Mumbai (April 16) , and Pune (April 17). Next Jigar Doshi, also from Chennai, India, pitched 3gSimplified , in effect, a comparative shopping solution for mobile plans, which are apparently quite complex in the Indian market.

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SiliconHills

JANUARY 22, 2024

In the latest Ideas to Invoices podcast episode, Nilima Achwal, founder of The Female Founders Lab, provides insights from her entrepreneurial journal. Previously, Achwal founded Iesha Learning, a technology education platform to teach sexual education to junior high school students in India.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

AUGUST 18, 2020

The post Lightspeed India raises $275 Million, to partner with bold founders building for India and from India for the world appeared first on Lightspeed Venture Partners.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Each engagement is personally undertaken by their founder and principal, Mitul. At the height of the pandemic, Mitul helped bring seamless/contactless passenger processing (using biometrics) to airports, airlines and border control agencies across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and India to help resume air travel.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 14, 2022

The only countries that saw higher growth in tech investments were Germany (170%) and India (164%). India: $42 billion ??U.K.: Anecdotally, one founder complained to me that this has shorten his runway by 30%. Several discussions on social media have founders asking if they should hedge their FOREX risk. China: $104.4

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

What makes an individual a great startup founder (versus an employee) has been something I had been thinking about since I retired. A Day in the Life of A Founder For those of you who’ve never started a company, let me assure you that it never happens like the pleasant articles you read in business magazines or in case studies.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Though, this article is not a reflection on the fundamentals of unicorns—rather, I am using them as a proxy for situations in which founders have executed on big ideas. 38 unicorns, or 1 in 4 (24%), have at least one MBA founder. 63 MBA founders are represented among the 157 unicorns. Key Insights. Shazam (GSB, Haas).

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2017

To confidently answer no, co-founder of Strategyzer Alex Osterwalder told our attendees, “What you really want to do is work more like Amazon. … You’re kind of looking for founders,” not friends, remarked Jeff. “If The reason Amazon [is invincible] is because they've put a system in place that allows them to continuously innovate.”

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

To list the best example, WhiteHouse.gov , Australia.gov.au , UN.org , Loreal India , Johnson and Johnson India , and Pfizer are just a few in the list who trust Drupal and its security. He is also the founder of VocabMonk, which is a simple and easy to use virtual assistant powered by AI.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

I'm a little surprised that CTO Founders with growth capital funding only have 15% of their companies. CTO Founders in India, have a very low equity stake. CTO Founders in UK, US Mid-Atlantic, US Pacific NW, US Northeast, France, Australia have a higher equity stake.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

I'm a little surprised that CTO Founders with growth capital funding only have 15% of their companies. CTO Founders in India, have a very low equity stake. CTO Founders in UK, US Mid-Atlantic, US Pacific NW, US Northeast, France, Australia have a higher equity stake.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2014

Outsourcing is defined as contracting the work to another company, usually located in a developing country, like India, China, or Eastern Europe. If you are a typical startup operation, consisting of an unpaid founder and co-founder, both working part-time, outsourcing is not likely the solution to your resource constraints.

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2015

My guests on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Errol Arkilic , former program director for the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (NSF I-Corps), now founder of M34 Capital. My sister was already here but I was having fun in India and I had no ambition (to come here.) So what did I do?

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Brandanew

AUGUST 14, 2016

Show Guest : Shikha Pahwa is the Founder & CEO of House This India , a home decor company based in New Delhi, India. Now this is a home decor company based out of Delhi in India. The Indian market has been evolving and if you trace back 5 years – India with the concept of ‘brands’ per se has only evolved recently.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

In the past few days there has been a lot of discussion on the topic of a Founders Visa. The credit for starting this fire goes to Paul Graham from Y Combinator , who wrote a great essay titled The Founders Visa in April 2009. As an immigrant founder, this is a topic that I can relate to and care about.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Founders face multiple challenges when they are in the initial faces of a startup. Convin was founded in 2020 in Bangalore, India. 90% of Indian startups fail within the first five years of inception. Gong helps enterprises uncover revenue intelligence by recording, transcribing, and analyzing sales conversations.

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VC Cafe

JULY 21, 2020

If you’re a startup founder, you’re probably looking at Google in some way, maybe in terms of partnership or acquisition, but maybe some level of suspicion and fear. A relationship with Google can take many forms, which I will detail in this post as a guide for founders exploring their relationship with big tech.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2012

Since my background includes software development, I often get the question about when to build a solution in-house, versus outsourcing it to a local company, near-shore service, or off-shore organization in China, India, or Eastern Europe. In the USA, “near-shore” is a euphemism for connected countries, like Mexico and Canada.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Successful founders have a laser-like focus and commitment; a keen understanding of customers’ needs; and a tenacious spirit, said the latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on Sirius XM Channel 111. Steve : … Team captain is a lot like the founder and CEO of a startup. Reetu Gupta. Mandela Schumacher-Hodge.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 17, 2017

The co-founder of Google wasn’t born in America nor was the co-founder of Sun Microsystems, WhatsApp, Yahoo! and the founder of eBay and many others. And what of our most revered tech founder — Steve Jobs? Our most famous current rocket entrepreneur — Elon Musk — was from South Africa. Yeah, he was born in San Francisco.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Jan Koum, one of WhatsApp’s founders, immigrated to the US from Communist Ukraine as a teenager. He worked at Yahoo, where he met his co-founder. While many early movers have retreated from India due to low price points, the attractiveness of this user base (and engagement of that user base) is undeniable at this point.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2011

Since my background includes software development, I often get the question about when to build a solution in-house, versus outsourcing it to a local company, near-shore service, or off-shore organization in China, India, or Eastern Europe. In the USA, “near-shore” is a euphemism for connected countries, like Mexico and Canada.

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Intellectual Property Non-disclosure Agreement Non-Compete Vietnam 225

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2016

Outsourcing is defined as contracting the work to another company, usually located in a developing country, like India, China, or Eastern Europe. If you are a typical startup operation, consisting of an unpaid founder and co-founder, both working part-time, outsourcing is not likely the solution to your resource constraints.

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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. In 2030, India is expected to surpass China in population.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 19, 2011

The hosts were Girish Joshi of Microsoft India and 1M/1M Ambassadors, Praveen Karoshi, Rajesh Nair and Thejas Gupta. As for the presenters, first up, Abinash Karana from Bangalore, India, presented Bizosys and his product 10screens , a specification capture technology for software development workflows.

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VC Cafe

MAY 4, 2021

Capuccino – an audio social network launched in July 2020 by French founders. Run live podcasts, townhalls, AMAs with your users to increase engagement and get feedback over audio chat without taking them to a different platform Leher – India based audio rooms social network. Bootstrapped. Open Source.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

During today's roundtable, we had four Microsoft BizSpark Startup India Challenge grant finalists present. Freshdesk First, Girish Mathrubootham from Chennai, India, pitched Freshdesk , a SaaS company that provides small and medium businesses with on-demand customer support software that offers multi-channel social support.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 19, 2020

In an interview with THE HINDU, Dna11’s Co-founder Nazim Ahmed shares that “I was working for a California-based biotech company, and had some templates of DNA images. Story of DNA art in India. In India, the DNA art was brought up by Qadir Rangawala in September. Adrian thought they looked more like art.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 12, 2014

by Deepak Chauhan, CEO and founder of VOCSO Web Studio. He is the CEO & Founder of VOCSO Web Studio , a website design & development agency based in Delhi/NCR, India. Deepak Chauhan loves to help his clients with his design strategies to attract, engage and convert.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

The founders were simply wrong about their assumptions about customer needs. It turns out the term “visionary founder” was usually a synonym for someone who was hallucinating. Founders Need to Run the Company Longer. So, almost like clockwork 20 th century startups fired the innovators/founders when they scaled.

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The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Nic gives us a history of the waves of venture capital since the early 2000s and explains how firms have evolved over time to better serve founders. He explains what it is and how it is having an impact on founders and companies. It was totally the wrong time of year to go to India. The benefits of mindfulness for founders.

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Our Own Start-up

JUNE 5, 2020

Antler aims to invest in up to 40 startups within its first year in India and to build more than 150 startups in the next four years. Rajiv Srivatsa, co-founder of Urban Ladder, is joining Antler as Partner and will lead the Indian operations.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

I was a founder and former CEO of Mustang Engineering, and from 2005 through 2014, Mustang opened several international offices. Within the next few years, Mustang added offices in Melbourne and Perth, Australia; Mumbai, India; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Bogota, Colombia; Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia; and Norway. I know this from experience.

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