VC Cafe

MARCH 18, 2014

Although relatively few Israeli startups are focused on India, the market dynamics driving its mobile sector are worth a closer look. From a modest $200 million in bi-lateral trade in 1992 (when diplomatic relations were established), India-Israeli trade surpassed $6 billion in 2012-13. 250 million Internet users.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2022

I found some good lessons in this regard in a classic book, “ Becoming Facebook ,” by Mike Hoefflinger, the former Head of Global Business Marketing at Facebook. Too many choices confuse all customers, and make your job in marketing, distribution, and support much more difficult. Revenue and competitive position followed.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Scalable startups are on a trajectory for a billion dollar market cap. But if you want to build a scalable startup you need to be asking how you can you get enough customers/users/payers to build a business that can grow revenues past several $100M/year. has a large enough market that most U.S. Born Global or Die Local.

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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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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 30, 2020

In addition, we are using this site as a project to demonstrate our results as a digital marketing agency. Getting started with online marketing as a small business owner is difficult and expensive, but it doesn’t have to be that way. 10- Be the first Indian beauty/wellness brand to go truly global. Photo credit: Gigi J.

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Technical Review Entrepreneur Software Review SEO 143

The Startup Magazine

JUNE 23, 2020

The UK is a fantastic and lucrative market. Whether you’re looking to seize new eco-friendly business opportunities or establish a tried-and-tested formula like a marketing service, there are endless possibilities to grow and succeed as a UK startup. It’s the very basis on which our global economy is founded. .

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

They provide a hands-on transformation and revenue growth partner for B2B technology companies. Founded in 2021, the company focuses on transforming the go-to-market strategy and execution for businesses that are underperforming, in distress or seeking exponential growth. billion in market capital. Giving back to the community.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Sramana Mitra is the founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative, an educational, business development and incubation program that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond. on a global scale. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant.

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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. Now, the Web self-service software market is very crowded with major players like RightNow already deeply entrenched. an e-commerce storefront building software for the Indian market. GrillGrate.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

At today's roundtable, we had entrepreneurs presenting from Brazil, Israel and India. In fact, I was pleased to even see an entrepreneur from Kolkata, India, the city in which I was born and raised. He wants to penetrate the Indian market. Estate Lister. ServiceSutra. Overall, I saw several promising businesses.

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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.

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Costa Rica Incubator Silicon Valley India 115

Board Effect

DECEMBER 5, 2023

AI can also segment donor lists based on donor giving patterns, which makes it easier to target marketing efforts effectively. New donors now constitute a fourth of their total YouTube donation revenue. AI systems should account for user privacy to ensure the organization complies with global data privacy regulations.

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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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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 23, 2011

My advice was to keep doing the SharePoint solution development and consulting work the company does today and develop the store project as a side effort until the market is ready. Anupam Rajey from Lucknow, India, presented Acelerar Technologies , an outsourced accounting services BPO project from India.

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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.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Well, 1M/1M is focused on helping businesses generate $1M in annual revenue, whatever be the nature of the business. But our goal is to make sure that these businesses are sustainable, have customers, revenues, and profits. It turns out that in my Vision India 2020 book, I have a similar project called FDBI.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Today, at the roundtable, we had a discussion around the topic, especially in the context of specific geographies that were represented at the session: Dublin, Ireland, and Kolkata, India. Today, building Internet businesses, or businesses that are primarily marketed through the Internet, is viable for entrepreneurs all over the world.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

This was the year that the promise of technology to truly change the world and empower individuals (the reason I entered the tech world in 1994) reached global scale. In India, two female journalists launched a mobile app to allow women to report harrassment and abuse, an issue in their hometown of Delhi and throughout the world.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 14, 2011

First up, Girish Mathrubootham from Chennai, India, presented Freshdesk , a SaaS solution for multi-channel customer support including knowledge base and social CRM support. The go-to-market strategy has to be fine-tuned to make it more precise, but the basic premise of the business is validated. Interviewstreet.com. Quantum Arc.

India 126

India Technical Review Entrepreneur Silicon Valley 126

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.

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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. By April 2010, the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) global initiative had been formally named.

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Programming Silicon Valley Bootstrapping Technical Review 116

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Don’t we all hate email or SMS spam – those meaningless, time-wasting pieces of unsolicited digital miscommunication masquerading as marketing messages, for example. Global Ranking for Volume of Email Spam. About 40% of SMS in India is spam. they send less emails, but a large proportion of those can be spam).

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

When I moved back to Australia I identified a gap in the market as these clear aligner businesses were not mainstream here. If manufacturers can increase productivity , they can produce more without increasing costs, then they are more globally competitive. Thanks to Daniel Phung, Full Books Marketing ! #21-

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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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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 13, 2011

We discussed various segments for John's go-to-market strategy and pricing model options. Uma is a member of the 1M/1M premium program , and has already started validating his idea with several online classified players in India. The answer to that question, I believe, is the 1M/1M Premium Lounge.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Rajeev wants to build a BPO firm in a place called Bolpur in West Bengal, India. These roundtables are the cornerstone programming of a global initiative that I have started called One Million by One Million ( 1M/1M ). Next, Rajeev Pareek discussed his rural BPO idea. Photo by thesaint.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 17, 2011

As I said to an entrepreneur from Hong Kong at a previous roundtable: whether you are building a startup in Silicon Valley or Timbuktu, the methodology of bringing a product or service to market is not that much different. Adarsh Patil from Bangalore, India, presented ResortHunt. Words To Live By. Ten people paying $37.50 ResortHunt.

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Costa Rica America Silicon Valley Entrepreneur 114

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.

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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. Because customer financing equals revenue, not equity. That's why, I advised Gio to keep going with further execution on his business and build more revenue traction.

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Cloud Silicon Valley Incubator Finance 115

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2019

I found some good lessons in this regard in a classic book, “ Becoming Facebook ,” by Mike Hoefflinger, the former Head of Global Business Marketing at Facebook. Too many choices confuse all customers, and make your job in marketing, distribution, and support much more difficult. Revenue and competitive position followed.

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Social Media India Acquisition China 218

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 7, 2010

First up was Siobhan O'Brien with OnTrack Imaging , a medical diagnostic imaging venture catering to the horse owners and trainers market. The equine diagnostic equipment market adds up to over a billion dollars, and Siobhan wants a piece of it. I asked her to call up 50-100 from that list and ask for feedback from those customers.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 10, 2017

I’m originally from New Delhi, India and have lived in the US for 10+ years now. I found a niche in the children’s furniture market that I wanted to fill and so it was a no brainer for me to stop talking about this gap in the market and actually do something about it. 6 – Great Market Opportunity.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 10, 2011

First up, Nimesh Khiara from Mumbai, India, discussed StopWaitin , a restaurant reservation system that includes managing waiting lists and is similar in concept to OpenTable. Fortunately, there are numerous such companies in India. For this week's One Million by One Million roundtable, we teamed up with the Indian Angel Network (IAN).

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thebarefootvc

JANUARY 27, 2014

Last week, a chart in the Wall Street Journal listed private companies globally that have raised capital at $1 billion-plus valuations from venture capital firms. Globalization and resulting economic prosperity has created more wealth around the world. Suddenly, everyone’s worth a billion dollars. Or so it seems. Technology ubiquity.

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Technical Review Valuation Venture Capital Investment Bankers 63

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.) Address the global creation of innovation: Disruptive innovation is now created around the world by companies of any size, many of them startups.

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Silicon Valley Venture Capital United States Technical Review 120

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. I like these two strategies.

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Illinois Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Chicago 114

VC Cafe

DECEMBER 10, 2013

After peaking at $38 billion revenue more than a decade ago, the industry stabilized last year at $16.5 In fact, digital will drive growth this year in 10 of the 20 largest global music markets. billion, making it the world’s largest music market. Music is everyone’s favorite example of digital disruption done wrong.

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