The Startup Magazine

JULY 18, 2018

France is one of the world’s leading global powers, but what is it like to conduct business there? France offers elements like its research tax credit (CIR) (in 2012 it was extended to over 20,441 companies) that is open to all companies. In 2017 the CIR was €6 billion. You can go to VAT Global to review them.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 4, 2017

When we established Ready4S back in 2012, the tech startup scene looked completely different than it does today. European cities like Berlin, Stockholm, or Amsterdam were on the list of the top locations for tech startups in the global Startup Ecosystem Report 2017.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 4, 2013

On the other hand, e-commerce and online publishing businesses are thriving in the US, with the former expecting a 52% projected revenue increase from 2012 to 2017 while the latter is forecasted with a 110% projected growth during the same period. Others Entrepreneurship failure infographic Staff.com startup startup failure'

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 21, 2021

In under 3 years we have been able to scale our business to 7+ figures, we started our food truck manufacturing company Dec of 2017, Trailer King Builders, and were on a mission to help entrepreneurs become financially independent with their foodtruck. 18- Desire to be the first Indian beauty/wellness brand to go truly global.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

KPMG’s Venture Pulse Q3 2017 reported that the Asian market has raised $12.3 billion across 283 deals in the first three quarters of 2017, nearly three times that of in 2012. In China, tech giants like Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent Holdings, are going global to build their in-house capabilities.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Airbnb ($31B valuation in 2017 Series F round). valuation in 2017 round). Evernote (reportedly cashflow positive but presumed valued less than $1B in 2012 Series D). But in geographic terms the unicorn list is now very much a global one with China leading the way. Dropbox ($9.2B IPO value, $10.0B mkt cap today).

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IPO Valuation San Francisco Silicon Valley 120

The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

The global financial crisis started in 2007 and it went on for much of 2008. By 2017, the fund was worth $250 million. He founded an apparel company in 2012 and it has been quite successful. Investments from capital markets to real estate plummeted. Ten years have passed since this crisis occurred. Source: Pexels. Sean Belnick.

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Cofounder Venture Capital India Valuation 140

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Compared to the median price of homes in San Francisco (which as of June 2017 was over 1.5 He began a venture fund in 2012, VTF Capital , which invests in other businesses interested in joining the Nevada scene. Chicago’s 1871, created in 2012 to support Chicago’s startup community, ranks 1st in the U.S. Las Vegas, NV.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 18, 2020

This year’s Global Entrepreneurship Week, which included Capital Factory’s Texas Startup Roadshow, included breakout sessions relevant to each city and showcased local promising startups. We went public in 2012.” The Texas startup Manifesto was written in 2017; hasn’t a lot changed since then? In a word, YES!

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Following Black Friday and Cyber Monday, there is Giving Tuesday on November 28, 2017, a day to help make up for all the consumerism that we take part in and to think about others who may be less fortunate. Giving Tuesday , which was started in 2012, is held each year following the big holiday spending days. In 2015, there was $1.77

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 26, 2023

500 Startups was looking to add someone with an enterprise background to their investing team, so I made the leap into venture at the start of 2017. For example, we had a hybrid work schedule starting in 2012. After DataHero was acquired, I felt like it was time to try something new. We didn’t overthink things. M/W/F in the office.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

Compared to the median price of homes in San Francisco (which as of June 2017 was over 1.5 He began a venture fund in 2012, VTF Capital , which invests in other businesses interested in joining the Nevada scene. Chicago’s 1871, created in 2012 to support Chicago’s startup community, ranks 1st in the U.S.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 19, 2016

billion smartphone users in 2012. billion, and by 2017, nearly half of global mobile users are likely to own a smartphone. billion smartphone users in 2012. It’s certainly true for computers, as smartphones are progressively overtaking their larger counterparts. According to Dazeinfo research , there were about 1.13

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 9, 2017

Enter 2017. With such effective and reliable technology available at our disposal in 2017, we are wise to take advantage. John Oechsle joined Swiftpage in July 2012 and currently serves as president and chief executive officer. The year was 1987, a time when technology was advancing at a tremendous pace.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Global revenue from mobile advertising increased by 92 percent from 2012 to 2013, growing from $10.1 billion by 2017, more than doubling the $18 billion spending projection for 2014. New data on mobile ad spending confirms that more advertisers are incorporating the medium in their advertising budgets. billion to $19.3

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Meet some of the incredible female entrepreneurs who have volunteered to work with the girls in Latinitas by serving as mentors, career presenters, and judges at our 2017 Startup Chica Conference. In 2017, Rocheli Patisserie received Austin Woman Magazine’s 2017 Business Way Award for Rising Stars.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

Compared to the median price of homes in San Francisco (which as of June 2017 was over 1.5 He began a venture fund in 2012, VTF Capital , which invests in other businesses interested in joining the Nevada scene. Chicago’s 1871, created in 2012 to support Chicago’s startup community, ranks 1st in the U.S.

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United States Las Vegas San Francisco Denver 48

Up and Running

JANUARY 5, 2018

Driven by Lore, Walmart acquired e-commerce platform Shoebuy in January 2017, followed by outdoor apparel retailer Moosejaw in February, womenswear site Modcloth in March, direct-to-consumer premium menswear brand Bonobos in June, and last-mile delivery startup Parcel in September. Increase in-store efficiency. Disclosed funding: $27.4M.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 21, 2017

The same article noted, “the report indicates that when unicorn deals are taken out of the equation, deal count is down to 1,117, its lowest since early 2012. Instead, they’re planning to invest even more in 2017, but with a more strategic focus on startups of any size that can demonstrate “financial discipline” and “unit economics.”.

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Silicon Valley Venture Capital Valuation Later Stage 86

VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2020

This week saw several of them get global recognition. Founded in 2017 by Didier Toubia. Most-recent deal: $15M, 7 March 2017 Seebo – Helping manufacturers increase capacity and prevent losses using artificial intelligence. Founded in 2012 by Lior Akavia.

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Artificial Inteligence Global Startup Algorithm 144

Jeff Hilimire

DECEMBER 11, 2018

I called the organization MATCH (Marketers Aspiring to Change Humanity), officially starting it in 2012, and over a few years we had 17 teams helping over 40 nonprofits. Our big idea was born: put on 48 events, in 48 cities, on the same weekend…globally…by the year 2025.

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Austin Startup

JULY 7, 2019

I knew the stats, those annoying stats that keep getting bombarded at us, like how 17% of venture-backed companies are female founded, globally. You know what that percentage was in 2012? Yep, it was 17%.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

According to a study by CB Insights (2017), a software that gathers essential data from investors, companies and industries, more than 70% of startups do not exceed the first stage of venture capital investment. These results were obtained after the following rounds of financing of more than 1000 technology companies in the United States.

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Venture Capital Cofounder Finance United States 77

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2018

Since debuting in 2012, Hubspot’s Inbound has grown in leaps and bounds to become the world’s premier inbound marketing conference. The 2017 edition boasted over 21,000 attendees and more than 250 educational sessions. Affiliate Summit is another conference that’s global in scope, with outposts in Singapore and Las Vegas.

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Las Vegas Software Review Affiliate Cofounder 124

Transformify

AUGUST 16, 2020

Founded in the year 2012 by Manoj Agarwal, Abhishek Kumar, Sumit Khandelwal and Kushal Agrawal, Xoxoday offers a powerful platform for organizations to align their users with motivation triggers – both extrinsic and intrinsic – and achieve tangible business outcomes. About Xoxoday. of India’, FT top 100 tech companies 2020.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 25, 2013

Mobile Payments Market Predicted To Reach $90B By 2017, Up From $12.8B In 2012 | TechCrunch – [link]. 12 big brands & celebrities that crowdsourced in 2012 | The Next Web – [link]. 133 of the Best Photoshop Tutorials Created in 2012 – [link]. Best Book Covers Of 2012 For Inspiration – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 108

View from Seed

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The world is experiencing a global economic crisis of a proportion most living people have never witnessed. 2012-2016: The Era of Blitzscaling. Facebook goes public in 2012 and Twitter in 2013. 2017-2018: Rediscovery of Unit Economics. Snapchat goes public in 2017 and Spotify succeeds with a direct listing in 2018.

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IPO Early Stage Cofounder B2C 202

abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In 2017, the company reported sales of over $500 million. We estimate that the global GMV for ride sharing was over $100B in 2018 (including Uber, Didi, Grab, Lyft, Yandex, etc) and still growing handsomely. Benchmark is an investor in Rover through a merger with DogVacay in 2017). Julie Wainwright founded The Real Real in 2011.

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Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

The Future of Startups 2013-2017, beginning of a series. 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. And I think businesses are going to figure out more and more how to do that as well.

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Software Review Startup Venture Capital Stock 22

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The world is experiencing a global economic crisis of a proportion most living people have never witnessed. 2012-2016: The Era of Blitzscaling. Facebook goes public in 2012 and Twitter in 2013. 2017-2018: Rediscovery of Unit Economics. Snapchat goes public in 2017 and Spotify succeeds with a direct listing in 2018.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2013

In 2012, Gartner formalized their Big Data definition as a “3V” framework - high Volume, high Velocity, and high Variety information asset, requiring new forms of processing to enable enhanced decision making, insight discovery and process optimization. Global personal location tracking. Global manufacturing.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 5, 2017

Facebook is one of the leading practitioners of the strengths-oriented approach, a strategy that figures significantly in its position as the top employer in technology, according to the anonymous job-survey site Glassdoor’s “Best Places to Work in 2017.”. He struck quickly to acquire Instagram when it had a mere 30 million users in 2012.

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Silicon Valley IPO Metrics Global 150

Haystack

DECEMBER 17, 2019

As a little tradition on this blog, I’ve singled out companies starting in 2012 with Stripe ; there was Snap back in 2013; Slack in 2014 (after prematurely saying there wasn’t one); took a break in 2015-16, as I wasn’t inspired to select one then; in 2017 it was Coinbase ; and last year, 2018, it was Airtable.

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Cap Table Finance Database Software 113

David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

While fundraising of US VCs has dropped slowly as a percentage of global limited partner allocations over the last decade, non-US startups are receiving a more rapidly increasing percentage of that money. As of 2017, 421 companies have passed through the program in 6 U.S. Source: NVCA, Pitchbook. Companies founded by immigrants.

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United States Silicon Valley Canada Offshore 60

David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

While fundraising of US VCs has dropped slowly as a percentage of global limited partner allocations over the last decade, non-US startups are receiving a more rapidly increasing percentage of that money. As of 2017, 421 companies have passed through the program in 6 U.S. Source: NVCA, Pitchbook. Companies founded by immigrants.

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United States Silicon Valley Canada Offshore 60

Transformify

JANUARY 17, 2017

billion to the UK economy (according to 2012 Small Business Survey, 2013) and they employ almost a million people. They make their money from selling goods and services, but they reinvest their profits back into the business or the local community. And, thus, when they profit, society profits. There are many sorts of social enterprises.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

2012-2015 were boom times in tech startups as prices were always moving up leading to FOMO leading to higher than normal multiples driven by a massive entry of new investors in the market. And my guess is the market will normalize throughout 2016 and by 2017 much of the shake out will have taken place.

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