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Observations from my trip to India

Version One Ventures

I just returned from a weeklong trip to India, having spent a few days each in Delhi and Bangalore to meet with local entrepreneurs and investors. Noah Smith recently wrote about why everyone should get excited about India’s prospects. I had only a few connections in India before this trip.

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I don’t miss the silicon valley (and you shouldn’t either)

The Startup Toolkit

25% during product development. 60% are for revenue generating companies with a sellable product. 10% goes to profitable companies ready to grow (this data is for the US & UK; the same chart for China & India is skewed way to the right). The vast majority of VC rounds go to revenue generating companies.

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Unintended Lessons

Steve Blank

And I remember staying in everything from little motels to big hotels and resorts, from National parks in Alaska to trips in India. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. She said, “Dad what I meant was that growing up we loved when we traveled. Now that I’m older, I’m starting to know what things cost.

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Transportation, On-Demand And The Asian Economy – Asian Horizons

YoungUpstarts

When we say on-demand, the glorious image of Silicon Valley and its technological environs pops up in the layman’s mind, and even that may be too imaginative. Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, India and some other countries have been privy to the on-demand bubble, so to speak. by Samar Singla, founder of Click Labs.

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Changing the narrative on distributed teams in Silicon Valley

Version One Ventures

The predominant narrative among Silicon Valley start-ups has been: don’t open a second office until you have reached 100+ employees. Among our Silicon Valley-based portfolio companies, not a single company past “A” does not have a distributed team. for customer service and in Eastern Europe and India for development.

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8 Keys To Real Innovation Outside of Silicon Valley

Startup Professionals Musings

In my experience, the Silicon Valley startup model, focused on disrupting established industries, has treated the USA well and created some great global businesses. In effect, Silicon Valley needs to take a more global perspective. Even Silicon Valley is running out of local markets large enough to sustain scale.

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SXSW Startups: AirPop Makes Healthy Air

Austin Startup

million daily active users, expand into India as a second home market and launch the second generation of our Halo Sensor that has significantly more sophisticated sensing capabilities. We’ll triple our user base in 2018, which is currently around 1.5 We built our company culture around the idea of “Blended Innovation.”