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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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

They don’t feel the need to do a deal in NYC today, India next week, SF the following. ” I have been spending a lot more time with existing portfolio companies as they all are trying to “ level up.” Markups do not equal success and sometimes equal zeroes for early investors. I can’t do every deal.

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Transformify

APRIL 29, 2018

Within the framework of enlarging our client base and increasing product penetration among our clients in India, the Sales representatives are responsible for sales of the Transformify's HR software portfolio.

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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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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Some examples include Flipkart and Redbus in India, and Freshdiet in the US. Malaysia, India, China, Italy, Argentina, wherever), you are better off raising money locally. Suresh has an Application Platform-as-a-Service (APaas) business that already has a number of multinational customers, albeit all acquired in India.

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 31, 2024

Since then, I’ve received 200+ inbound leads (and counting). Have backed close to 20 emerging GP's over the past 5 yrs & looking to add 3-4 more to the portfolio this year. Investing felt very easy during that time; investment pacing, portfolio construction and follow-on decisions didn’t seem to matter. DM's open.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 28, 2018

In fact, many of them will do the job just for a portfolio credit. Agencies in the Philippines, India, and other countries with a lower cost of living offer wide range of services, from web designing to content writing and marketing. Another cheaper option is to hire a student to get your website design done.

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 26, 2021

The rapid transition to remote work also triggered dramatic changes across our portfolio and startups everywhere, most notably by collapsing geographic boundaries. Many of our portfolio companies were able to recruit incredible talent that they never would have had access to previously. . The entire world becomes your talent pool.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Periodically we do portfolio reviews to evaluate whether we have enough diversified risk across the fund. If the negative comments begin to erode his conviction he might withdrawal the deal on his own volition. And I believe this process is very healthy even when it doesn’t feel good. We look at stage, geography and of course sector.

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Gust

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

As we end 2012, Gust is the official, exclusive platform of virtually every national federation of business angels in the world including the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Scotland, France, Portugal, Spain, Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, India, even China, all in their native languages.

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Start Up Blog

MAY 28, 2020

Even though Tesla makes terrific cars (and has a wider portfolio) – its valuation is seriously inflated. I’ve now done with Fortune 50 firms and Governments in the USA, India, China, Singapore & the UK. . – GM $ valuation per car = $5k. – Ford $ valuation per car sold = $17k. Keep thinking, Steve. .

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Transformify

JULY 4, 2018

In India, people are used to searching for jobs using popular job portals like Naukri.com, FreshersWorld, etc. Advantages: An established brand in India used by a number of job seekers and employers. The job seekers provide a link to their Linkedin profile, portfolio, etc. Naukri.com.

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Seeing Both Sides

MAY 19, 2019

I received fantastic input from angels, entrepreneurs, lawyers and VCs across the world, helping me pressure test and compile this list (note: Flybridge portfolio companies are in blue). This year, I added companies from India and China with the help of a number of friends from those communities?—?a

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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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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 18, 2011

He was a lead for distributed teams in India, Europe and the U.S., Seeing that Web developers take a lot of pride in their online portfolios and keep their LinkedIn profile up to date this just appears incredibly dated. Remote teams are a great thing if you do it right: a team in India, a team in the U.K. and a team in the U.S.

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Europe India Hiring Engineer 139

Where to Play

AUGUST 18, 2020

In 2000, they included tentage into their portfolio and since then they have established themself as a premium brand in marriage event management. A good indicator for this fact is the growing number of Chai-Startups in India. Their root lies in a small ice-cream manufacturing and sale unit which was established back in 1988.

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Pakistan Sales Cycle Marketing Technical Review 62

VC Cafe

APRIL 28, 2021

Examples include Benchmark-backed Popshop Live , or India’s SoftBank-backed unicorn Meesho. Creators are also increasingly becoming angel investors in B2C startups, similar to celebrity investments which are also on the rise, leveraging their profile to help their portfolio stand out. Finally, a small plug to Remagine Ventures.

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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. Even more impressive is that the employee churn has been pretty low. development manager.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2017

LESSON #1: Equip your business with a portfolio map and a 21st century org chart. To do the same, Alex recommends building two things: a business portfolio map that recognizes invention as necessary and an updated organization chart. So that gives us two different management structures for these two different portfolios.”

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Lean Startup CTO Hire Cofounder 245

K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

” The options were to either go back home to New Delhi, India, or, risk getting myself into an immigration nightmare. For anyone coming from India (like me) or China, this mean a protracted waiting period. I was within weeks/months of being “out of status.” They suggested I go back to being a student.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Sisu is currently expanding its product portfolio and geographic scale to develop additional cutting-edge, patented, clinically proven medical devices, and to create a system for medical device commercialization in emerging markets. Prior to Sisu, Yarina founded a medical device non-profit working with rural mobile clinics in India.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Techstars provides their accelerator portfolio companies with access to financial, human and intellectual capital to fuel the success of their business. Techstars’ accelerator portfolio includes more than 1,900 companies with a market cap of $24.7 For more information about the Techstars Austin accelerator program, see here.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

This supplement to our BVP VII fund will ensure that we can take advantage of future investment opportunities and that the companies within the Bessemer portfolio have continued access to capital." Labels: Portfolio , Venture Capital. Portfolio. (3). To learn more, visit [link]. 2009 Bessemer Venture Partners. at 11:26 AM.

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thebarefootvc

MAY 6, 2020

As investors try to navigate the COVID-19 world, they’re taking a hard look at their portfolios and solving for the new normal. In the midst of highly volatile traditional financial markets, savvy investors are searching for new avenues for not only higher returns, but the best risk-adjusted ones as well.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 28, 2018

The more you can diversify your business portfolio the better, which is why many global businesses became global. For example, computer technology is booming in India, and few countries can beat Japan for manufacturing. One product might fail miserably in the United States but fly off the shelves in Tokyo. International Talent.

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 14, 2020

It was an incredibly busy and stressful time as my father was critically ill and I had to urgently leave for India). But, I also know that it’s better not to assume, and so I made a mental note to check in with this team. (It

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 5, 2015

Your early stage investment portfolio may no longer really be early stage. A lot of this capital is coming from non-traditional geographies like China, Russia, Middle East, India. Reflect on what you’re doing and revisit your messaging to founders and to LPs accordingly. Implications for LPs. Tech companies generate a lot of buzz.

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Seed Stage Venture Capital Early Stage Valuation 48

Genuine VC

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Estonia & India) and even other cities here domestically (e.g. Along those lines, our portfolio companies GrabCAD, SalesCrunch, and even CustomMade empower individuals to create and offer services regardless of their location.) East Coast, but a number of them have a significant number of team members outside the country (e.g.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 24, 2012

You may have thought debt bondage was a problem only in rural India. They collect information from their portfolio companies and submit it to an independent audit committee, which then helps to determine the partners’ compensation. But it’s happening at a strip mall near you. They have to pay a fee,” Harris says.

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thebarefootvc

AUGUST 13, 2018

Meanwhile many citizens there, ignoring President Erdogan’s calls to exchange gold and foreign currencies to local currency, tapped into the crypto market: “ Bunyamin Yavuz, a cardiologist in Ankara, said he no longer trusts local banks and now buys XRP, monero, lumens, among other cryptocurrencies as part of his investment portfolio.

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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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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

OrangeScape positions itself as an Application Platform As A Service (APaaS) provider, and has some marquee customers in India including Unilever, Citibank, Pfizer, AstraZeneca, and Sterlite. So the first company I want to discuss today is OrangeScape, before I move on to today's presenters. One of the primary drivers of the switch is cost.

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David Teten

APRIL 6, 2015

At the American Society for Cell Biology Conference last month in Philadelphia, they described their approach as emulating venture capital by maximizing investigator productivity and investing in a portfolio of strong investigators. As he observes, behavior change (such as prevention) is possible, it’s just expensive.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Non-Compete Philadelphia 60

Genuine VC

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Estonia & India) and even other cities here domestically (e.g. Along those lines, our portfolio companies GrabCAD, SalesCrunch, and even CustomMade empower individuals to create and offer services regardless of their location.) East Coast, but a number of them have a significant number of team members outside the country (e.g.

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Estonia Startup Distribution Chicago 100

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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Offshore India Cost Belarus 60

thebarefootvc

MARCH 8, 2012

While the initial fund is $120M we will have access to ru-Net’s (the Russian LP) $700M of capital to support growth of portfolio companies and opportunistically invest at later stages where we can add value beyond capital. More importantly, building global networks is key in order to optimize exit opportunities for portfolio companies.

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Silicon Valley Ghana Venture Capital India 69

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

Clearstone currently invests out of a $200 million fund based in LA with offices in Menlo Park and in India. We also talked a lot about Geodelic , a portfolio company of Clearstone, who is trying to change the metaphor of how people discover location based information by partnering with large companies and brands.

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