ReadWriteStart

MARCH 17, 2011

Entrepreneurs from Latin and Central America were given first priority to pitch their businesses at today's roundtable co-hosted by Innova Tiquicia and Startup Weekend Costa Rica. Next week, the 1M/1M roundtable will be co-hosted with TiE Midwest. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

This was the year that the promise of technology to truly change the world and empower individuals (the reason I entered the tech world in 1994) reached global scale. As of year-end, Foursquare had over 15 million users, with an exponential growth rate globally.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 9, 2020

Now, the company and its CEO Ella Gudwin are taking that a step further—offering their resources and capabilities to assist in the manufacturing and distribution of PPE for essential workers on the front lines of the COVID-19 effort. As I watched, I felt our global bond become stronger than ever. . That’s how VisionSpring was born.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Now, the company and its CEO Ella Gudwin are taking that a step further—offering their resources and capabilities to assist in the manufacturing and distribution of PPE for essential workers on the front lines of the COVID-19 effort. As I watched, I felt our global bond become stronger than ever. . That’s how VisionSpring was born.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

This episode of This Week in Venture Capital featured Michael Montgomery, president of Montgomery & Co. If you don’t know Montgomery & Co it is one of the premier technology & media focused investment banks in the country (and as Michael corrected me they also have a strong Healthcare / Med tech practice).

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Founded in 2008, Shanghai-based CooTek is the company behind TouchPal X Keyboard and TouchPal Contacts , which lets you type contact names directly on your smartphone’s dial pad. Distribution and cashflow pose challenges in China. CooTek is Chinese but targeted Western consumers first. Being copied is a huge problem in China.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2018

We had a chance to interview Michael and asked about his story, how he started his business along with this co-founder and the future of MeisterTask. The idea behind MindMeister first came about when my co-founder, Till Vollmer, and I were working together at another tech company. Tell us your story.

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Hippoland

JULY 6, 2018

except for 2008-2009, which is another story) But, I think we’re in trouble, Silicon Valley. 1) Silicon Valley / San Francisco is too expensive With the high cost of living in the San Francisco Bay Area these days, a lot startup capital must now go towards founders’ rent. I went to college during the bust. Documentation?

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Hippoland

JULY 6, 2018

except for 2008-2009, which is another story) But, I think we’re in trouble, Silicon Valley. 1) Silicon Valley / San Francisco is too expensive With the high cost of living in the San Francisco Bay Area these days, a lot startup capital must now go towards founders’ rent. I went to college during the bust. Documentation?

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 2, 2020

We currently operate a large 17,000 square foot facility, 5 stores to sell products in, and a distribution business to sell the product to retailers. My co founder Jonathan Hill realised how important good food was due to his father passing away from eating poorly. 9- Desire to go global. Photo Credit: Ashwin Sokke.

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pandodaily.com

JULY 18, 2012

Co-founder and CEO Jason Goldberg said this was the first of several companies he’s started that was so intensely personal, he couldn’t imagine ever doing anything else. Sarah Lacy is the founder and editor-in-chief of PandoDaily. That aesthetic took decades to develop. “This one is just so much fun.”

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. With the launch of Airbnb in 2008 and Uber (*) in 2009, these two companies established a new category of marketplaces known as the “sharing economy.”

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Raymond has built a nice business through efficient distribution deals and will do about $250,000 in revenue this year. Bokér/1 Next David Sarna with Hendon, Stamford Hill & Co. I started doing my free Online Strategy Roundtables for entrepreneurs in the fall of 2008.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Raymond has built a nice business through efficient distribution deals and will do about $250,000 in revenue this year. Bokér/1 Next David Sarna with Hendon, Stamford Hill & Co. I started doing my free Online Strategy Roundtables for entrepreneurs in the fall of 2008.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 29, 2020

Generally, a new company can’t undercut the established players in terms of pricing or get wider distribution, but a new idea gives you an advantage that money can’t buy. Dylan Taylor co-founded Voyager Holdings in October 2019 in order to provide infrastructure and funding support for start-ups working in the space industry sector.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Israel’s ranking in the’s Global Competitiveness Report 2010-2011 increased to 24th place from 27th the year before. The Global Competitiveness Index is based on 12 pillars of competitiveness, which together provide a comprehensive picture of the competitiveness landscape in 139 economies around the world at all stages of development.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 6, 2019

So my co-founder, Amit Vij, and I built a new database from the ground up, centered around massive parallelization combining the power of the GPU (typically used to quickly process and generate graphics in video games) and CPU to explore and visualize streaming and historical data in space and time—an approach that we then patented.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Our tests suite takes nine minutes to run (distributed across 30-40 machines). You cant make these global efficiency improvements until you get clear about the goal of your development process. The high level of our process is dead simple: Continuously integrate (commit early and often). On commit automatically run all tests.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

I am founder on an unconventional online gallery, The Art and Craft Gallery. Surfers alway want to know the waves conditions in real-time and they want to stay connected with their local and global community. Ajay Prasad, the founder of GMR Web Team < [link] > #15) Take Advantage of an Opportunity.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

This post was co-authored with Omri Stern and originally appeared in Harvard Business Review. As a result, tech-sector employment has declined as a percent of the workforce, from 11% in 2006–2008 to 9% in 2013. Here's what the data say about Israeli startups: They’re Israeli-run but with global footprints.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 13, 2020

- This article was co-authored with my colleagues Varun Purandare and Candice du Fretay and published initially on Tech.eu. UiPath broke that milestone this summer, in just nine months, establishing Europe as a major global center for software innovation. This led me to launch the SaaS 13 Index in February 2008 while I was at Bessemer.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

And now all of a sudden you have got this global market of all these early adopters that have smartphones connected to the Internet, and they can just pick up their things and run with them. So these companies that are kind of for — in the sort of mechanical term, distributed workforces and outsource work being run online.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 22, 2010

Like other industries -- from publishing to automobiles -- entrepreneurship is in the process of being disrupted by globalization. The cost of creating new companies is falling rapidly, and access to markets, distribution, and information is within the reach of anyone with an Internet connection.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2010

In a forthcoming article Ive written advocating for the Startup Visa , I wrote this: Like other industries – from publishing to automobiles – entrepreneurship is in the process of being disrupted by globalization. On the whole, this is a good thing for America and for our civilization. Teaching at Berkeley (and beyond).

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VC Cafe

JUNE 30, 2022

The key global trends that are currently shaping the metaverse, blockchain gaming, and NFT space (Source: Newzoo). From my vantage point, today’s negative financial sentiment most closely resembles 2008. It’s going to take time for the technology to reach a stage that is 1) widely distributed 2) ready for prime time.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

“Founders don’t think their problems are due to trends. And in fact, overall trends are a second-order effect for founders.” “The real winners here are going to be the seed funds and early stage VCs that can write a $1 million to $2 million check,” says AngelList co-founder Naval Ravikant.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

He admitted no one would want to watch a seven-hour fight with his cofounders.”. In the real world, the montage is where ff Venture Capital and our founders live. Margin Call – impressive debut film about the 2008 financial crisis which accurately captures the culture of both Wall Street and large corporations in general.

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