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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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The Next 10 Years Of Infocomm Technology

YoungUpstarts

Over the next few decades, this young cohort would comprise a rising proportion of citizens in Asia (31%-40% in Singapore, Korea, Hong Kong and Japan, and more than 51% in Malaysia, Philippines, India and Indonesia). Macro Trend 3: IT “Tuned” for Industry. 1990s to 2000: Infrastructure, Security, Management, etc.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Hemafuse

Austin Startup

Prior to Sisu, Yarina founded a medical device non-profit working with rural mobile clinics in India. In addition to entrepreneurship, she has a background in chemical engineering, supply chain management, biomedical engineering research, microbiology research, and new product development for U.S. and Indian companies.

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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 Has anyone on your team been to SXSW before? I attended in 2007.

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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. She said, “Dad what I meant was that growing up we loved when we traveled. And as kids we never had any idea which was cheap and which was expensive. Now that I’m older, I’m starting to know what things cost.

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Founders and dysfunctional families « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Next, you have to deal with the daily crisis of product development and acquiring early customers. And here’s where life gets really interesting, as the reality of product development and customer input collide, the facts change so rapidly that the original well-thought-out business plan becomes irrelevant.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

In this scheme, all of the data related to a specific feature of a product are stored on the same machines. For example, Friendster was famously vertically partitioned at one time in its growth curve. This type of vertical partitioning sharding scheme wont work in most cases. Key-based partitioning. to store it.