Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
It was only a year ago that many in the Venture Capital industry were predicting that “winter was coming” and to be fair the author of this post was chief amongst them. While this it total FDI as opposed to just venture, it should give you an indication of the international trend. Baidu alone raised $3.2
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 22, 2011
In economics we call these “exogenous events&# and if they happen (Greek debt crisis, problems raising the US debt ceiling, trouble in Saudi Arabia) – you will not be shielded. It’s what I love about entrepreneurship and about venture capital.
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Feld Thoughts
MARCH 19, 2015
Since then I ended up at a venture capital firm in Dubai called BECO Capital. They then spent the next two hours answering questions that I had about Dubai, its history, entrepreneurship in the region, and the geopolitical dynamics with other UAE states, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Iran.
The Equity Kicker
SEPTEMBER 25, 2015
They drew on a contest run by American spies in the wake of the Iraq debacle: Begun in 2011, it posed hundreds of geopolitical questions (“Will Saudi Arabia agree to OPEC production cuts in November 2014?” By Philip Tetlock and Dan Gardner, which details the characteristics of people who are good at predicting the future.
Feld Thoughts
JULY 23, 2015
In December, 1985, Saudi Arabia flooded the market for oil and by the end of 1986 the price of a barrel of oil was around $10. I didn’t work at Petcom that summer. Their phones stopped ringing. Customers went out of business right and left.
VC Cafe
MARCH 20, 2011
Facebook’s collaboration with Snaptu at m.fb.snaptu.com/f enabled FB to power its users in emerging markets with low smartphone penetration including: Dialog (Sri Lanka) Life (Ukraine) Play (Poland) StarHub (Singapore) STC (Saudi Arabia) Three (Hong Kong) Tunisiana (Tunisia) Viva (Dominican Republic) Vodafone (Romania) Mobilicity (Canada) Reliance (..)
David Teten
NOVEMBER 30, 2020
Our ventures, in turn, have raised over $2 million in external funding.”. Takwin is a venture capital fund and incubator, making early-stage investments in hi-tech companies run by Arab entrepreneurs in Israel. How Do Israel’s Tech Firms Do Business in Saudi Arabia? Takwin Labs. Very Quietly.
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