The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Why stop at having a few people on payroll to help your portfolio companies succeed? That allows you to help your portfolio companies with many more things, offer better service, and that should see the companies go on to achieve greater results.”. “It It was totally the wrong time of year to go to India.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Because of a global donor blood shortage, particularly in emerging markets, clinicians and patients don’t have enough access to donor blood. Carolyn Yarina , Co-Founder and CEO of Sisu Global Health. Prior to Sisu, Yarina founded a medical device non-profit working with rural mobile clinics in India. and Indian companies.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

SailPoint doubled its customer base in 2010, adding 40 global companies. In 2010, SailPoint closed two strategic corporate transactions to broaden its product engineering and services teams and further expand its global footprint. SailPoint’s worldwide partner network saw dramatic growth in 2010.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2022

New entrepreneurs who want to survive, and optimize the growth of their startups, need to think globally, and act locally, from day one. This approach, popularly known as “ glocalization ,” means you have to design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market in which you operate.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 31, 2006

I had dinner tonight with a portfolio company CEO who has managed to shift most of his resources to India. Today the company has almost 100 employees in India, over 30 of whom have been with the company for 5+ years. development manager. Even more impressive is that the employee churn has been pretty low.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 12, 2010

This is a significant guidance revision, which shows the current focus and mindset of the management of these companies. mba india. Portfolio. (3). Global warming: a plague for humanity? Global Warning! A sign that the SaaS industry is already maturing or a reflection of the public investors expectations?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2019

New entrepreneurs who want to survive, and optimize the growth of their startups, need to think globally, and act locally, from day one. This approach, popularly known as “ glocalization ,” means you have to design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market in which you operate.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

With a portfolio that includes food, tech, and services, the fund is industry-agnostic and focused on the overlooked and underrepresented with high-margin business models. Of Indie.VC’s portfolio, 60% of investments are not in NY, CA, or MA. The INTRO tool is available to non-portfolio companies as well. Details here.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 3, 2016

We got to know stellar entrepreneurs in the space and backed them early – 50% of our portfolio is comprised of companies who are defining this computing paradigm, and FPV continues to be a go-to fund for entrepreneurs looking for sector expertise. When we launched, few had heard of blockchain, and bitcoin was a dirty word.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Antonio has a portfolio of Web-based business process management applications for small businesses with 10-100 employees. Then, she can start doing partnerships with fraud management system vendors and use their channels to sell, perhaps. At the end of the session, each left with specific action items. Photo by mjamesno.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

We got to know stellar entrepreneurs in the space and backed them early – 50% of our portfolio is comprised of companies who are defining this computing paradigm, and FPV continues to be a go-to fund for entrepreneurs looking for sector expertise. When we launched, few had heard of blockchain, and bitcoin was a dirty word.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 16, 2015

Bonus points for the fact that they partner with the social enterprise Vision Spring to facilitate training for optometrists and eye glass manufacturers in the same countries that they donate glasses to (India, Guatemala, and Bangladesh to name a few), so the communities also receive opportunities for sustainable income.

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

This is a post I’ve wanted to write for a long time, but I needed the time to digest all the other great posts on the topics by other investors, and to analyze specific portfolio data from Haystack over the last five years. Global and Local. Well, that time has finally come.

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BeyondVC

MAY 11, 2004

In our weekly partner’s meeting yesterday, we ended up in a discussion about the progression of offshore development in a variety of portfolio companies. For example, one portfolio company had 5 consultants from India trained for 3 months on the product. 6 months later only 2 are left. I am already seeing that happen.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

New entrepreneurs who want to survive, and optimize the growth of their startups, need to think globally, and act locally, from day one. This approach, popularly known as “ glocalization ,” means you have to design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market in which you operate.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

New entrepreneurs who want to survive, and optimize the growth of their startups, need to think globally, and act locally, from day one. This approach, popularly known as “glocalization,” means you have to design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market in which you operate. Find global sources now.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2011

New entrepreneurs who want to survive, and optimize the growth of their startups, need to think globally, and act locally, from day one. This approach, popularly known as “glocalization,” means you have to design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market in which you operate. Find global sources now.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 18, 2015

New entrepreneurs who want to survive, and optimize the growth of their startups, need to think globally, and act locally, from day one. This approach, popularly known as glocalization , means you have to design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market in which you operate. Find global sources now.

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Cracking the Code

JULY 5, 2016

For early stage companies, the stakes are even higher, and finding a great country manager is the single most important element of a successful launch. While it’s not possible to find strong acquisitions opportunities in every country (the launches in India and Turkey have been organic), it remains a key element of its fast global rollout.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2012

New entrepreneurs who want to survive, and optimize the growth of their startups, need to think globally, and act locally, from day one. This approach, popularly known as “glocalization,” means you have to design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market in which you operate. Find global sources now.

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Hippoland

JULY 16, 2018

I’m building a new social network that will bring people globally closer together – so that people in India can talk with people from Japan.“ non fund managers), it’s important to explicitly mention that you are raising money and that you want their help. BUT, you can get people excited about outcomes.

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Hippoland

JULY 16, 2018

I’m building a new social network that will bring people globally closer together – so that people in India can talk with people from Japan.“ non fund managers), it’s important to explicitly mention that you are raising money and that you want their help. BUT, you can get people excited about outcomes.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

As a registered user of The Wall Street Journal Online, you will be able to: Setup and manage your portfolio. Receive and manage newsletters. Mark Siegel, managing director at venture capital firm Menlo Ventures, which has managed more than $4 billion since 1976, said its a matter of supply and demand. My Journal.

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Sarah also points to the vast global wealth that has to get allocated somewhere as well as a small bump in long term average returns, now that the generally terrible performance of funds from the 2000-2002 time frame (after the tech bubble of the late 90s crashed) no longer factor in to 10 year returns.

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BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 10, 2003

A number of my portfolio companies outsource development to India and other locales. When offshoring it is important to think about what can and cannot be offshored, whether management can handle it, and whether or not you open your own office with your own infrastructure or outsource completely.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2010

Entrepreneurs who want to survive, and optimize the growth of their startups, need to think globally, and act locally, popularly known as “glocalization.” That means you have to design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market in which you operate. Find global sources now.

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Haystack

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

and China, managing billions of dollars and driving returns for their LPs in being early investors in companies like Wish, Buddy Media, OpenDoor in the U.S. Only a small handful of other venture firms have grown into such global powers, such as Sequoia and Accel. [ and Didi, Qunar, and countless others in China.

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Up and Running

JUNE 13, 2015

Then he goes to India, and he gets exposed to a whole different world. This is what Charles Handy calls, “The Portfolio life.” If you want to stay competitive, you need to have a diverse portfolio that is not only the work you do, but the life that you live. An accidental apprenticeship works like that. .”

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 10, 2020

My first job was a Product Manager at Oracle, then I worked at a tech startup called meVC. It was really myself and my boss, who was our portfolio manager. And then now you're faced with this global pandemic, which is immediately driving your costs up, immediately driving your impact up, immediately making new things possible.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

A recent example is Regalii (HOF portfolio company), a NYC startup founded by a Santo Domingo immigrant which has expanded rapidly to work financial services clients across the US and Latin America. In addition, HOF has backed 6 companies with roots in Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, India, and Russia. (In

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Management. He also combed the portfolios of VC firms and talked to people at start-ups, he says. How well a failed entrepreneur has managed his company, and how well he worked with his previous investors, makes a difference in his ability to persuade U.S. Globaloney: Globalization Challenged. América Latina.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

To learn more about the CAC ratio and CLTV, you can read Philippe Botteri’s white paper “CAC Ratio - One Number to Manage your SaaS S&M Spend” also available at www.bvp.com/saas. Together, CMRR, Cashflow, Churn, CAC, and CLTV make up the “5 C’s of SaaS Finance. Philippe Botteri.

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Transformify

JANUARY 21, 2020

continues to cut jobs, it comes as no surprise that the Global Freelance Platforms Market is growing at a fast pace. Apart from the veterans Upwork and Freelancer.com, there are new and emerging players entering the Global Freelance Platforms Market each year. Given that the gig economy is on the rise and Industry 4.0

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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. In Silicon Valley, the ambition is always global.

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BeyondVC

SEPTEMBER 20, 2006

I remember 2 years ago the brouhaha over globalization and how every startup needed to adapt or it would die. I truly am a fervent believer in globalization and how offshoring some development work can make a ton of sense from a cost and time advantage (24×7). for the U.S.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

If you want the site to translate ancient Arabic poetry to Spanish to increase global tolerance, just say, “Translate paragraphs from Arabic to Spanish.” Scoping the prpject down to something manageable is really hard. I am starting a big web project, and have been thinking about how to break it down into manageable chunks.

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online.wsj.com

MARCH 4, 2013

Loading… Management. Management. What countrys GDP is the size of the global app economy? Manage Email Preferences. Manage Email Preferences. This group will discuss (technology) innovation--how companies foster it, manage it and overcome internal barriers to innovation. MarketWatch. MarketWatch.

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