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30 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

9- Desire to go global. I wanted to be the first Indian beauty/wellness brand to go truly global. The 5 years that I spent working in the US were majorly governed by 2 things: Work and Cooking. 20- Add value to the global human community. About a year strapped to this rollercoaster and I managed to have my best month yet.

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Denouement

View from Seed

2009-2011: Retrenchment. The world is experiencing a global economic crisis of a proportion most living people have never witnessed. Aggregate VC investment in 2009 hits a low of roughly $20B, a figure last seen in 2003 in the wake of the bursting of the dotcom and telecom bubble and 2001 recession.

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Denouement

Agile VC

2009-2011: Retrenchment. The world is experiencing a global economic crisis of a proportion most living people have never witnessed. Aggregate VC investment in 2009 hits a low of roughly $20B, a figure last seen in 2003 in the wake of the bursting of the dotcom and telecom bubble and 2001 recession.

IPO 100
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Invest in Israel Newsletter March 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

billion in 2007, as investors worldwide tightened their belts in the wake of the global financial crisis. real GDP growth for Israel in 2010 in the absence of extraordinary developments, and Fischer has said the economy may grow more than that if the global recovery accelerates. Foreign direct investment in Israel reached $3.8

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90 Things I've Learned From Founding 4 Technology Companies

betashop.com

As the questions came in, I realized that my 2010 list was great for what I had learned as of 2 years ago, but it also was in desperate need of an update to include what I’ve learned more recently, especially as we’ve pivoted from fabulis to Fab in 2011 and then scaled Fab to more than 7.5 So, here goes. But it should never be a surprise.

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Disrupting the Diploma

Reid Hoffman

Equipped with a diploma, a job-seeker broadcasts numerous positive attributes to potential employers: Perseverance, self-governance, competence in at least one area. Another key step will involve aggregating this data. Economists often speak of their “signalling” value. Employers, in turn, use diplomas as screening mechanisms.

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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

Cracking the Code

Almost all businesses will look to go global at some point if they continue to grow. But SaaS vendors face more barriers to globalization than traditional software companies because you can’t just localize the UI and ship a new CD to some remote country. The same can typically be said about a single global data center.