Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2011

As we’ve discussed in this column before, Austin has a very robust mobile scene. And, of course, if you start counting non-US domestic hotbeds, you’ve got thriving mobile scenes in Western and Eastern EU countries, China, Japan, India, Korea, Brazil, etc. So, what distinguishes the Austin mobile scene?

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Mobile Differentiation Technical Review New York City 75

YoungUpstarts

JULY 23, 2020

These airbags open up and save the elderly or disabled people in case there is an accident on the road or in the home and make sure they have safe mobility if they are living alone. Zypp has more than 500, 000 users in India alone and the number is still growing.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

In the past week, Rakuten , a Japanese e-commerce company, bought Viber , a mobile messaging video app, for $900M; and Facebook bought WhatsApp , a mobile messaging app with 450M active monthly users globally (almost entirely outside of the US), for a deal that could be worth $19B after earnouts.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Held on January 15 to 17, 2012 in Mumbai, India, the event is designed to create a forum for some of the top marketing professionals to congregate and create a marketplace for ideas and services that will help Asian companies get the marketing edge.

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Asia India Mobile SEO 171

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 4, 2014

Are China and India still the “factory” and “outsourced service provider” of the world? They should also consider launching online B2C or B2B platforms incorporating mobile and social-commerce. How big is the market for Muslim-friendly products and services? A “China + 1″ Strategy.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 31, 2011

He recently founded The Startup Centre , an India-based accelerator for early stage start-ups, and also a hub for initiatives related to tech, design and entrepreneurship. We communicated with Anand who kindly shared with us his thoughts on the start-up scene in India. Could you share with us what’s the start-up culture like in India?

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 12, 2013

But just how can mobiles achieve this? My company, Planet Retail , conducted a comprehensive consumer research into e-commerce in 10 key countries, covering mature and emerging markets including China, Japan, India and the USA. Why such heavy mobile access in China? Mobiles are also being used to provide real-time feedback.

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Singapore Asia China Technical Review 173

thebarefootvc

JUNE 15, 2014

Thanks to the Web and mobile connectivity, more and more people have access to online resources for education and information – the combination of on-the-ground expertise and this access to global information is creating a revolution. Starbucks has also built successful retail mobile payment experience, albeit a closed loop one.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 27, 2011

Asia – especially in countries such as India, China, Vietnam – is fast becoming the place where many entrepreneurs, whether locally born or lured back from Silicon Valley, are setting up shop. The second part covers the various sectors that have seen the biggest growth in Asia.

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Asia Technical Review Vietnam Singapore 167

thebarefootvc

MARCH 3, 2020

India’s Supreme Court today announced a historic ruling: they overturned The Reserve Bank of India’s 2018 circular that effectively banned cryptocurrency trading, making it illegal for crypto exchanges to link to bank accounts. The post India: A Historic Crypto Ruling appeared first on The Barefoot VC.

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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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India Bootstrapping Non-Compete Entrepreneur 123

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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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

However, this primarily applies to businesses within China and India, where these big firms reside, as they rarely invest in startups outside of those two countries. As I touched on before, China and India have the most mature VC communities. Sequoia , Accel , NEA , etc.). Of course, there are exceptions, but they are minimal.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

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. Applications such as Xtify , Local Response , and Placecast provided turnkey mobile solutions for retailers to target consumers.

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Technical Review India Mobile Hockey Stick 110

The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Mobile phone technological advance. Beginning of 2009, Mitul designed and sold a solution that enables mobile operators across the globe to seamlessly exchange SMS, while taking care of billing, settlement, and routing. Transformation of Mobile Handset business. During that time, he had key successes.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 22, 2011

mig33 , one of the world’s largest mobile-first communities, earlier this week announced its new developer program, releasing a slew of resources for developers that want to build social games and apps for its 50 million registered users. “They also have an engaged community ready to embrace social gaming,&# he adds.

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Mobile Community Programming Developer 169

Brandanew

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

If it were a country, the Republic of Facebook will only be behind China and close to India. Close to 20 million Facebook users are mobile only. Probably they do not even own such big devices and use mobile as their sole device to access the internet. So, if there ever was an advertisement for mobile marketing, this is it!

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Social Media Media Technical Review China 100

YoungUpstarts

JULY 12, 2013

Singapore-headquartered location-aware mobile advertising platform AdNear earlier this week announced its foray into the Southeast Asian markets of Malaysia and Indonesia, opening up its platform for advertisers who are looking to enable precision advertising on consumer mobile devices in those countries.

Asia 140

Asia Advertising Mobile Malaysia 140

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. Upwardly mobile consumers, I am sure, would welcome a service like Delyver.

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Entrepreneur India Technical Review Los Angeles 118

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Tracking and payments will happen via the respective mobile apps. Serial entrepreneur Samar Singla is the founder of Click Labs , a technology solution provider with 5+ years of industry experience in developing enterprise grade solutions with focus on mobility. Scheduling. You can find Samar on Twitter and LinkedIn. .

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Demand Software Review Technical Review SMS 138

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 7, 2015

This will get you couple hundred sign ups from early adopters and mobile app enthusiasts. Many mobile entrepreneurs got their first customers through direct emailing. With Offices in San Francisco, Melbourne and India, Appster is quickly becoming a worldwide leader in mobile application development. or Startupli.st.

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San Francisco Cofounder Application Development India 100

YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2012

Singapore, as one of the most wired countries and a smartphone penetration rate at 70-percent, is uniquely positioned to embrace mobile commerce, asserts Elias Ghanem, managing director of PayPal Southeast Asia and India. Things are different for mobile commerce. billion by 2015. billion in 2010 to S$1.4 billion last year.

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Singapore Mobile Asia India 159

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 product has won a national award from the president of India for its empowerment of people with disabilities. Interviewstreet.com. Quantum Arc. ET Interactive.

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India Technical Review Entrepreneur Silicon Valley 126

Board Effect

DECEMBER 5, 2023

ARMMAN , a nonprofit based in India, built an AI-based predictive model that evaluated the risk of expectant mothers who were likely to drop out of telehealth outreach programs. The program identified women at risk and sent voicemails describing preventative care to the expectant mothers’ mobile phones.

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Artificial Inteligence Generative AI Government ChatGPT 52

VC Cafe

MAY 4, 2021

Started in 2016 by an agency called Mobile-Sphere , and seems to have no outside funding. 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. Spoon – audio live streaming.

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Audio Software Review Open Source Social Network 139

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 13, 2012

For the uninitiated, IIT KGP is considered one of the top technology schools in India, and it is located in the Eastern part of the country, not far from the city of Kolkata. Today, at IIT KGP, we caught a glimpse of some of the budding heroes of 21 st century India. Optimum Mobility Services.

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India Entrepreneur Asia Programming 117

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 12, 2016

These Nexus phones already beat Apple to the 1 billion India market by a couple of weeks and its favorable pricing will likely enhance its appeal in a relatively low income market. Thus, these phones help Google to maintain its grip on the mobile OS industry and this should push its stock price higher going forward. The Chromecast 2.0

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thebarefootvc

JUNE 15, 2014

Thanks to the Web and mobile connectivity, more and more people have access to online resources for education and information – the combination of on-the-ground expertise and this access to global information is creating a revolution. Starbucks has also built successful retail mobile payment experience, albeit a closed loop one.

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Africa India Bangladesh United States 40

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

He describes how the world is thought to have a theoretical maximum population of about 10 billion people but those estimates came from an assumption that China and India don’t reach Western standards of living, which of course they increasingly are. But deep down I personally yearn for bigger ideas and more profound products.

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Technical Review America Partner United States 362

Our Own Start-up

APRIL 6, 2020

Currently, there are about 300 million online gamers in India and the number is expected to grow by 46% to 440 million in two years.

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India Mobile Startup 52

Transformify

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Fintech businesses have been thriving in Brazil in the last 10 years as more and more people have access to internet and cheap smartphones that give them access to mobile payment apps. India positioned itself as an expanding economy in 1991 after enacting significant economic changes, including trade openness. on average.

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Global Brazil Russia Singapore 95

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Today James Hickey from San Diego, California, pitched Parallel6 , a company that does social media marketing services for brands and also has a white label mobile app that can be customized and branded for their clients' mobile and social marketing needs. Statisco Economic Analytics.

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North Carolina San Diego Entrepreneur Balance Sheet 116

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Class 3: Our guest speaker for session 3 was Anja Manuel , former State Department official, founding partner of Rice, Hadley, Gates and Manuel and author of This Brave New World : India, China and the United States. For example, in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor the U.S. knew how – and largely where – to respond.

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Technology Afghanistan Iraq Vietnam 397

The Next Web

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Rahul Varshneya is the co-founder of Arkenea , a company committed to helping entrepreneurs and businesses build, market and monetize their mobile apps. Building a mobile app startup is the “I want to build an Internet startup” of the late 1990s. For example, SnapDeal is a Groupon clone in India with localized content and features.

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Mobile Startup Singapore India 151

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 10, 2020

India, China, and many other countries are currently under lockdown. In countries such as India the central banks have not yet cautioned the public against using currency notes. These include the Ria website, the mobile web, as well as the Ria mobile app. The quarantining measures have also impacted remittances.

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Dominican Republic Nicaragua Armenia Morocco 147

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 24, 2012

The second category is composed of companies that have developed a unique IP locally and marketed it worldwide - typically in the gaming, software, security or mobile sectors. mobile phone per person for the Top 4 EE countries (vs. in GE, 1.3 in Brazil and 0.8 I will elaborate a bit on the first one – Big Data.

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Czech Republic Russia San Jose Europe 99

thebarefootvc

MAY 13, 2017

As I note in the talk, while we have 6 billion mobile phones in the world, only 29% of women in India are on the internet – connectivity has not solved everything. This time around we have connectivity, but vast underserved markets in services such as banking accounts and healthcare.

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Finance Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Internet 53