Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Mike Weider, my co-founder at Blaze, was a much more experienced, technology-minded business person than me, and much better connected to the VC world. So, while he was CEO, leading the company and helping to fundraise, I focused on building the technology and product. A complementary relationship is important.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 15, 2016

Applications are open for the second group of Colorado Global Entrepreneurs in Residence. The Global Entrepreneurs in Residence (GEIR) Program brings international entrepreneurial talent to the CU-Boulder campus and community. We currently have three Colorado Global EIRs. Hector Rodriguez (Spain).

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 22, 2014

Suppliers in the manufacturing, pharmaceutical, technology or professional services space, need to pay special attention, as these industries have above average DSO. On a macro level it has led some countries, like Italy, Spain and Portugal, into a vicious cycle, with billions of dollars tied up in overdue invoices. Anthony Coundouris.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Fast-forward to today—Apple is the most profitable Smartphone company in the world and in Spain Android commands a market share of more than 90%. Your time at ESADE has trained you to become a global business leader. In fact, it was only 7 years ago that Apple shipped its first iPhone and Google introduced its Android operating system.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

ARRIS, headquartered in Suwanee, Georgia, USA, specializes in the design, engineering and supply of technology supporting triple- and quad-play broadband services for residential and business customers around the world. Fifty of its manufacturing activities and 70% of its consolidated revenues derive from global operations.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 27, 2019

The maritime business is fully globalized, and a ship will often travel great distances. Other well-known shipyards are in Italy, Spain, and the United States. Aaron Wens , a marine engineer with 16 years’ experience, explains the life cycle of an ocean-going vessel. Shipbuilding Areas.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

12:50): How have you adapted TransPerfect to meet changing global trends? John (07:00): Well, and you were kind of pre-internet, a pre global economy mean, so you needed people all over the world, and they were not as easy to find as they are today. I mean, there was no technology. We created technology solutions. (14:27):

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Utilizing a recently developed innovative technology, BetterView leads a revolution in the content world. Cell Buddy’s patent pending Virtual SIM technology allows you to continue using your regular phone and your original number. Cell Buddy will be the world’s first Mobile Virtual Global Operator (MVGO).

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

Tap global design network – [link]. Tap global design network – [link]. crowdSPRING designer interview – 12 Questions: Meet Rod MacGregor (Spain) – [link]. Sure, it has eight bio-domes, space docks, a stadium, club and mall. But it’s not real! Need a logo? – [link]. Need a logo?

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

has held over 200 Founder Friday events in 30 global cities. First started in San Francisco, Founder Friday events draw an average of 350 attendees and take place the first Friday of every month, providing the opportunity for female entrepreneurs to interconnect while listening to valuable keynote speeches from local female founders.

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Transformify

AUGUST 15, 2018

Transformify Recruitment CRM helps companies hire the best talents and make sustainable growth in the global marketplace. She's also a professor at the Zigurat Business School in Barcelona, Spain. Lilia has come up with the idea that blockchain technology will change the landscape of the social media market. "In

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VC Cafe

APRIL 7, 2011

. “Provigent is a unique asset with world-class microwave backhaul technology and strong engineering talent developing innovative and highly integrated semiconductor solutions for the microwave segment.&# – Rajiv Ramaswami, executive VP at Broadcom. LEADING SECURITY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY MCAFEE ACQUIRES ISRAEL’S SENTRIGO.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

Most of the informed people I know are telling me that the sharp sell-off has more to do with European national debt (PIGS as it is called: Portugal, Italy, Greece & Spain) than the current US dilemma of a S&P downgrade of the US government debt. I’m long on payment technologies. We’re 2.5 What gives?

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 16, 2012

members in France ( www.covoiturage.fr ), the UK ( www.blablacar.com ) and Spain ( www.comuto.es ), this company is changing the way people travel on the old continent, becoming a very compelling alternative to trains and planes. Global warming: a plague for humanity? Best Venture and Technology Podcasts for 2007. Software 2.0:

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

2011 was the year where global economy shaped the life for companies everywhere. The global recession has also had a massive effect on technology and start-ups, but just as often as new opportunities rather than challenges. Global finance is being remade. Local will be the new global. What is your view?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 9, 2013

But as we now know 33% of the world’s population is now connected to the Internet, the majority of traffic to the major Internet properties is now global and at Benedict Evans pointed out in his recent report, more than 70% of the world’s literate population will have a smartphone within 4 years. Prices down. Network Up.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

billion in 2007, as investors worldwide tightened their belts in the wake of the global financial crisis. real GDP growth for Israel in 2010 in the absence of extraordinary developments, and Fischer has said the economy may grow more than that if the global recovery accelerates. Foreign direct investment in Israel reached $3.8

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 1, 2018

Branson, author of “ The Future of Tech Is Female: How to Achieve Gender Diversity “ Information technology (tech) is at the epicenter of the world’s economy. s progress on gender diversity issues has slipped below the global median. by Douglas M. Apple, Microsoft, and Google are the foremost companies in the world.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Artificial Intelligence, Robotics & Voice Artisense (Munich, Germany) Deepblocks (Miami, FL) Intvo (Ann Arbor, MI) Sonavi Labs (Baltimore, MD) Wunder (San Francisco, CA) Alternates for Artificial Intelligence, Robotics & Voice 3Space Makers (Conroe, TX) PIX Moving (Guiyang, China) UneeQ (Austin, TX) Augmented and Virtual Reality echoAR (New (..)

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VC Cafe

JUNE 20, 2011

Red Innova is a technology and entrepreneurship conference held in Madrid for the third year. A few numbers about Spain. To put things in context, Spain has a population of 45.3 million businesses registered in Spain, placing the country in the 8th place worldwide – not bad [ source ]. million people, a GDP of $1.47

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 27, 2016

by Raj Subramaniam, Executive Vice President, Global Marketing and Communications, FedEx Services. Today’s modern technology means that the growth potential of SMEs is not limited by the size of the communities around them. Globally, only 38% of SMEs currently export overseas, even to markets right next door.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Although knowledge about the new science of entrepreneurship has gone global, startup ecosystems are always local. Luis Rivera Gurrea-Nozaleda of Spain Lean Startup said, "Our community of entrepreneurs loved participating in last year’s event." These simulcasts are important community-building opportunities.

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ConversionXL

MAY 30, 2012

According to Google’s “ Our Mobile Planet: Global Smartphone Users ” study, 20% of smartphone users purchase on a daily basis, while 14% do so a weekly basis. In fact, a majority of smartphone shoppers across the 6 countries studied (US, UK, France, Germany, Spain, and Japan) purchase on their device at least monthly.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 25, 2011

I sometimes feel that the Silicon Valley culture and we as technologists more broadly can breed monoculture in our approach to entrepreneurship, problem solving, market analysis and technology solutions. It globalizes. She encouraged people to get out and travel, see the world, see how other people live and operate. As was Shel Israel.

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

I am in Madrid, Spain this week with a group of MBA students on a one week intensive study abroad. They started, grew to a global presence in the space market, and exited their venture all within a ten year period. Yesterday we visited an impressive company, Deimos Space , headquartered here in Madrid.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

And hiked or biked every day, and enjoyed two weeks in Spain. I was working with only my savings for a budget and still working full-time as a global director. It’s been down to the wire this summer on a new gardening product launch for New Leaf Technologies. And snagged a $40K assignment from a client. Image Credit: Lisa Chu.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Every startup faces multiple choices and decisions when it comes to technology. Ad Serving Technology. Technology & Marketing Law Blog. SVPG : They want to share senior level experience and best practices with technology companies. Hundreds of startups featured since 2005, will yours be next? Preloaders.net.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Technology. Personal Technology. TECHNOLOGY. Craig Walker, co-founder and CEO of Firespotter Labs, a technology incubator, said it feels unnatural to bestow so much voting power on one executive. This time around, technology entrepreneurs are being more assertive. WSJ Classroom. Ran gold Resources Ltd. My Journal.

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

With entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, attorneys, and investment bankers from over 18 countries represented - from places as far afield as Switzerland, Singapore, and Spain (and Santa Monica and Silicon Valley!) - it was a truly international gathering. And surely it will be so.

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VC Cafe

JULY 2, 2012

has acquired Israeli face recognition technology developer Face.com for $100 million. The two companies have collaborated for a long time, with Facebook using Face.com’s technology to help users tag the faces of friends in pictures they upload on the social network with Face.com’s Photo Tagger service. Global sales in 2011 were $2.76

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

(This post was originally published on TechCrunch and has been enriched with a few quotes from the Blablacar founders) International expansion is a challenge any globally ambitious company will face — some sooner than others. For example, in my experience, what works in France tends to also work well in Italy and Spain, but the U.K.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

We just happen to also be unapologetically dedicated to advocate-building communication, the future of web technologies and conversion oriented design. 12 – Global Level Strategies. They require a level of global thought, cooperation, and consideration. Thanks to Diana Santaguida, SEOcial. #2 2 – Secret Club.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Some people think… Actually this is Spain here, so this could be a satellite photo, or this could be a duck, or whatever, a bush. If you would be able to have a global uplift of conversion rate of 5% per year, at the end you would have a little bit more money. If I’m talking about 5% uplift, I mean, a global revenue uplift.

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www.businessweek.com

JUNE 18, 2012

Technology Solutions. Technology. Global Economics. Technology. In 2009, Nuance Communications ( NUAN ) , one of the largest players in voice recognition software, licensed its technology for use in a small mobile app. Globally, sales of voice recognition software for wireless devices should reach $21.3

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 6, 2019

Scott Young: This actually resulted in several years after that experience of trying to learn French actually went with a friend to do our own version of that project, which we called The Year Without English, where we went to four different countries, Spain, Brazil, China, and South Korea to learn Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Chinese, and Korean.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 24, 2016

Firstly I had been in start up mode with my own business previously, I then got involved with some big partners one with a private family office and the other with a global brand. Then – I have a burning passion to go live in Spain, I have Spanish blood in me. It was at this point things hit me. Like a help centre.

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Transformify

MARCH 28, 2020

(ii) be able to create temporary remote jobs for those living in the areas around the world that suffered the most like Bergamo and the red zone in Italy, Madrid in Spain, etc. We have the technology, expertise and experience to provide access to information, remote jobs and secure payment to those in need of a job.’’

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