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. India is actually fragmented.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 19, 2011

In my post Making Money With Blogs , I have articulated some of my thoughts on the subject and presented some possible models that would enable blogs and small media properties to sustain themselves with a proper revenue framework. One of them is the 1M/1M Affiliate Program we announced today at the roundtable. Photo by 7rains. Discuss.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 30, 2020

I realized that this was an opportunity to solve a huge problem for an entire generation of parents and their kids using technology. Thanks to Jen Ohlson, Interactive Health Technologies ! #5- 10- Be the first Indian beauty/wellness brand to go truly global. the golden era of technology. 3- Create a unique product.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

With his passion for technology coupled with his desire to help others, Mitul graduated with a First Class in BSc in Computer Information Systems and embarked on his journey to help organisations better serve their customers. They provide a hands-on transformation and revenue growth partner for B2B technology companies.

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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. Today’s world is full of metrics leading to business growth, including customer logins, revenue per customer, retention, and average solution price.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2014

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. China, Russia, Brazil, India, Indonesia all meet those criteria. One of the groups I spoke to was the Australian Sports Technology Network.

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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, e-commerce has had extremely slow penetration in India, one of the key reasons being the lack of reliability of the delivery and logistics chain. GrillGrate. Photo by brokenarts.

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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. Up last, Leandro Telles from Brazil, pitched ledface , a knowledge management technology company that still needs a business strategy.

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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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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

We’re standing 15 air miles away from the epicenter of technology innovation. I’ve been asked to talk today about the future of Innovation – typically that involves giving you a list of hot technologies to pay attention to – technologies like machine learning. In fact, it’s not about any specific new technologies.

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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

JUNE 23, 2011

Acelerar Technologies Daniel expects SharePoint's cloud based solution provider eco-system to develop over the next few years. Anupam Rajey from Lucknow, India, presented Acelerar Technologies , an outsourced accounting services BPO project from India. For now, it won't come in through the store. Discuss.

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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

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

It is particularly satisfying for me to work with these entrepreneurs because I have long believed that India needs to diversify out of pure labor arbitrage. Other discussions on India's need for product companies have also been equally controversial. I like this business very much, and believe it can be a large, and important company.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

The last 40 years have seen an explosive adoption of new technologies (social media, telecom, life sciences, etc.) Not only are the number of new technologies and entrants growing, but also increasing is the rate at which technology is disrupting existing companies. Figure 1 : Five technology revolutions source: Carlota Perez.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 14, 2011

a group of entrepreneurs from TiE Chennai gathered at the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M) Research Park campus, and we spent the next four hours discussing strategy and tactics of early-stage entrepreneurship. The product has won a national award from the president of India for its empowerment of people with disabilities.

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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. Statisco Economic Analytics. Discuss.

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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. In India, five of the seven major metros are seeing significant improvement in entrepreneurial energy. Let's look at today's presenters. Discuss.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Charge-back accounting solution for large enterprises deploying cloud technologies. Ric Telford, VP of cloud services, IBM pointed me to the rather significant move towards rolling out private clouds at large enterprises, a move that IBM is spearheading by providing full stacks of infrastructure technologies. Photo by thesaint.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Interestingly, research compiled from messaging threat protection service provider Cloudmark’s Global Threat Network actually places the United States as the top country in the world in terms of volume of email spam, followed by Brazil and France. Global Ranking for Volume of Email Spam. About 40% of SMS in India is spam.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 17, 2011

Overall, I like this notion of social shipping, since as we become a more global world, and as e-commerce takes off in more geographies, this could be a service not only applicable to Costa Rica, but much more broadly in many nations. Adarsh Patil from Bangalore, India, presented ResortHunt. Words To Live By. Ten people paying $37.50

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 13, 2011

Uma is a member of the 1M/1M premium program , and has already started validating his idea with several online classified players in India. Interesting technology, and I will be working with him to build a comprehensive go-to-market strategy as part of the premium program. Photo by duchesssa. Discuss.

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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. Some, such as Chinese mobile company Xiaomi, were founded less than five years ago while others such as Good Technology have been around for more than a decade.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

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. In 1M/1M, our preferred financing strategy is customers.

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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. Today’s world is full of metrics leading to business growth, including customer logins, revenue per customer, retention, and average solution price.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 7, 2010

A lot of money can be made with this product, and Rajan needs to build it without any outside capital - that is, with customer money - that is, with revenue - for a long while yet. These roundtables are the cornerstone programming of a global initiative that I have started called One Million by One Million ( 1M/1M ). Photo by lco.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 24, 2020

Every waking day, we are having tremendous changes in regulations and technology which greatly affects the way businesses operate. The cost of technology and the services needed to start and run a business has come down dramatically. Thanks to Bruno Pešec, Pesec Global ! #14- Photo Credit: Michael Zipurzky. Hope this helps.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 25, 2019

Startups in developing economies, for instance, are addressing their issues through ingenious technologies and solutions. Global economic growth is determined by powerful markets, which are becoming more and more sophisticated. The Chinese have a keen interest for technology and expertise. As a matter of fact, yes.

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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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Seeing Both Sides

MAY 19, 2019

This year, I added companies from India and China with the help of a number of friends from those communities?—?a a nod to the growing global importance of those two startup ecosystems. I’d also point folks to Stanford’s Andy Rachleff’s terrific list , which he publishes each fall with a similar theme.

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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. My professional experience is in the area of delivering technology solutions for major movie studios. air events global is a trusted community marketplace for people to list, discover and book event work, anywhere in the world. #5 But, who am I?

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 24, 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. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. Photo by nazreth. Discuss.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

What appears clear to me today is how fundamentally the Internet is changing business processes, and the advent of nifty social media tools and technologies that plug into core business processes like lead nurturing are a powerful force. The next event will be on Tuesday, November 22, 2011, at 8:00 AM (PDT), register to attend here.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

DECEMBER 9, 2010

It started out as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, and Design. people in India, 700k have cell phones with SMS, not smart phones, 66% of women do the work but receive 10% of income, 1% of property. For those of who you do not know what TED events are about.

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Cracking the Code

APRIL 21, 2021

UiPath was founded in Bucharest in 2005, selling computer vision technology to OEMs. 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. The Global Partners of Accel.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2017

I found some good lessons in this regard in a new book, “ Becoming Facebook ,” by Mike Hoefflinger, the former Head of Global Business Marketing at Facebook. Today’s world is full of metrics leading to business growth, including customer logins, revenue per customer, retention, and average solution price.

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