thebarefootvc

JUNE 15, 2014

Others, including OnDeck Capital, Lending Club and Kabbage, offer small businesseses small, shorter term loans, with less fees than traditional merchant advances and a streamlined approval process. Low cost medical devices: In 2009 in India, GE partnered with Wipro to launch low cost medical devices including a $500 portable ECG.

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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. The venture capital landscape in Asia is varied and complex, as most of the active firms on the continent are concentrated in just a few areas.

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Asia Silicon Valley India Term Sheet 132

The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

At the height of the pandemic, Mitul helped bring seamless/contactless passenger processing (using biometrics) to airports, airlines and border control agencies across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and India to help resume air travel. He was featured on CNBC and quoted in The Times for his work. How Citius Partners helps their clients.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

The past year saw startups on the rise, an increase in venture capital funding (both in real dollars and numbers of companies funded), a resurgence of IPOs, and the rise of David against Goliath, as best represented by Groupon’s spurning of a $6 billion offer from Google. Investors will be bullish on startups.

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David Teten

AUGUST 15, 2013

1) Corporate Venture Capital. Most VCs (including ff Venture Capital ) collect money from independent limited partners in order to form their fund. This is not a comprehensive list, but merely an attempt to highlight some of the most notable examples relevant for technology-enabled startups. 4) Accelerators.

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thebarefootvc

JANUARY 27, 2014

Last week, a chart in the Wall Street Journal listed private companies globally that have raised capital at $1 billion-plus valuations from venture capital firms. Economics Entrepreneurship Startups Technology Venture Capital bubble economics startups valuation' Suddenly, everyone’s worth a billion dollars.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 9, 2010

In fact, I just did a case study on Coastal Contacts , a $150 million e-commerce company that sells contact lenses online and has built itself up largely by using inventory financing as opposed to venture capital and equity financing. Some examples include Flipkart and Redbus in India, and Freshdiet in the US. Photo by [link].

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Our Own Start-up

JUNE 5, 2020

Antler aims to invest in up to 40 startups within its first year in India and to build more than 150 startups in the next four years. Initially, the plan will begin with Bangalore and, further will expand to other major cities in the next 3 to 5 years.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Finally, for those of you who need some additional infusion of courage, please study the story of Ryan Allis in North Carolina who bootstrapped his company iContact to $1 million in revenue and THEN raised venture capital to get to $40 million. So, please don't get discouraged; there are many paths to success.

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The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

We discussed a number of themes close to my heart, including the future of venture, Forward Partners culture and the power of mindfulness practice. The future of venture capital and the concept of “applied venture”. Embed here, and more detail of what we discussed below. Originally published on Product Hunt last week.).

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Venture Capital is a tricky industry. 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. Far from it.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2019

The startup is backed by Y Combinator, one of Silicon Valley’s premiere accelerators, as well as Nexus Venture Partners, a venture capital firm with offices in Silicon Valley and India. The venture capital firm oversees 1.5 billion dollars across its funds and was founded in 2006. According to Apollo.io

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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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K9 Ventures

JUNE 5, 2015

The Venture Capital industry as a whole does a terrible job of giving things the right name and so we end up keeping the same name, but changing the meaning out from under it. Scaling venture capital breaks it. Venture capital is, and should remain, a boutique industry (See The Venture Boutique , blog post from 2008).

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Transformify

MARCH 14, 2020

At the same time, the stock markets collapsed, and most businesses already report skyrocketing losses, unmet revenue targets and insufficient stock due to production slow down in China, India and the rest of the world. Over the last decade, a new trend emerged as tech talent was scarce where it was needed the most.

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A Crowded Space

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Early on, we would routinely get emails and chats from freelancers in Russia, Ukraine, India, Bangladesh, and the Philippines expressing tremendous thanks. Full Circle My time at oDesk / Upwork directly led to my current venture capital career. That lunch began my career in venture and my focus on marketplace investments.

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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). Doug and his co-founder Vivek Nair , were not planning on raising any venture capital money yet. 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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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

The previous post described the evolution of the Chinese Venture Capital system. In Beijing we hadn’t seen air so badly polluted since we had been in Agra in India in the winter where I swear there was a day you could wave your hand in front of you and see traces of it in the air (and their excuse was they burn dung for heat.).

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Yes, venture capital is very good for scaling businesses rapidly. I personally have nothing against venture capital. In that case, why bother wasting time trying to raise money right now? Why not go further, develop more valuation, customer experience, and really, deeply validate the business? Photo by takatuka.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

He grew up in Connecticut attended Yale undergrad and worked for IBM after graduation doing M&A, strategy and venture capital. After Meebo launched, his friends helped him get the word out and soon they were getting coverage as far a China and India. Background: Seth grew Meebo from 0 to 170 million uniques in five years.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Sachin Bansal and his business partner, Binny Bansal, launched an e-commerce site in India in 2007. Carlson founded Polychain Capital in 2016. Venture capital firms Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz among others put $15 million into it. Peter is the founder of Bay Street Capital Partners. Peter Gylfe.

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Cofounder Venture Capital India Valuation 144

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 29, 2023

According to Jungle Ventures, Southeast Asia’s technology startups had a combined valuation of $340 billion in 2020. Venture capital (VC) investment is the primary funding source for regional startups. And the kinds of goods produced need to be tailored for India, need to be tailored for Indonesia, and so forth.

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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. Rickshaw drivers in India have cell phones as do camel drivers in the remote Rajasthan desert. Farmers subscribed to daily updates via SMS on weather and crop prices.

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Technical Review India Mobile Hockey Stick 110

The Equity Kicker

DECEMBER 2, 2013

By 2060 they predict the Eurozone will be the fourth largest economy in the world after China, India and the USA. That’s inevitable given that China and India have very different ideas to the USA and Europe about what constitutes ‘fair’ trade. Startup general interest Venture Capital'

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India China Venture Capital Forecast 88

Reid Hoffman

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

During his long career in the venture capital industry, John, who invested in Amazon, Google, and Intuit, amongst others, became known for the emphasis he places on Objectives and Key Results, or OKRs, which he wrote about in depth in his 2017 best-seller, Measure What Matters. In John’s estimation, that means increasing the U.S.

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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. There were a sum total of three or four “venture capital” funds in Pittsburgh at the time, and none of them had done much with this new fangled thing called the Internet.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

New Capital Earmarked for Global High-Growth Investments LARCHMONT, N.Y., 26 Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP), the oldest venture capital practice in the United States, today announced the closing of a $350 million supplement to its current fund family, BVP VII, which closed in June 2007. 2009 Bessemer Venture Partners.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

The previous post described the evolution of the Chinese Venture Capital system. In Beijing we hadn’t seen air so badly polluted since we had been in Agra in India in the winter where I swear there was a day you could wave your hand in front of you and see traces of it in the air (and their excuse was they burn dung for heat.).

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Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 159

thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

from a trip to India and spoke of places with pigs and cows roaming around and no plumbing. But I did write a letter to Indira Gandhi, then prime minister of India, in 1982 before my first trip there. And how much of it was based on luck, and how I could easily have been that child in an orphanage in India.

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thebarefootvc

JUNE 15, 2014

Others, including OnDeck Capital, Lending Club and Kabbage, offer small businesseses small, shorter term loans, with less fees than traditional merchant advances and a streamlined approval process. Low cost medical devices: In 2009 in India, GE partnered with Wipro to launch low cost medical devices including a $500 portable ECG.

Africa 40

Africa India Bangladesh United States 40

Austin Startup

JULY 14, 2017

India continues to pour out more advanced talent and Latin America continue to emerge more modernized urban destinations. Fortunately, Europe and Asia as well as Africa are making great breakthroughs in technology such as mobile payments, blockchain and distributed ledgers and artificial intelligence as well as robotics.

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Silicon Valley Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Africa 48

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

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

So then when I wanted to go into venture capital, they said, “You can’t do that, you need to be in EIR.” So when I got into venture capital, I thought, “Well, what can I do that’s different?” It’s humbling to spend time in India. ” I said, “Why?”

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

V: Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? GCVF is pioneering the future of venture capital and high growth startups for all small communities. Upekkha works with SaaS founders of Indian origin that use the India advantage for creating capital efficient growth.

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Equity Revenue Cofounder Colorado 78

thebarefootvc

JULY 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 40

Cracking the Code

MARCH 12, 2010

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 8, 2015

Eating my own dogfood - I was obsessed with startups and venture capital… and I talked to a lot of people and picked up nuggets along the process. For me, VC Cafe is one of those things and being included in the Top 50 blogs in Venture Capital (#4!) ” the post was also picked up by Venturebeat.

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