Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Scale Horizontally (or “scale out”): Add more nodes to a system, such as adding a new computer to a distributed software application. My entire world functions as a large and wide distributed network. Think of vertical scaling as building a bigger monolithic machine and horizontal scaling as add more machines to the system.

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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. 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.

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Up and Running

JULY 19, 2014

The show premiered in 2013 to critical acclaim, and in June 2014 Netflix released all 13 episodes of its second season. Specifically, much of the plot revolved around their competing ventures in smuggling and distributing illegal contraband to other prison inmates. Lock down a distribution strategy.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 10, 2013

In fact, digital will drive growth this year in 10 of the 20 largest global music markets. 2014 will be the year in which internet radio leads the music industry’s growth. Some of the prominent streaming music players that will drive growth in 2014. AKB48 in Japan…Is this the future of music? Examples of Digital Music Services.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 2, 2013

How to Honor Your Most Important Relationships written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing One of the things that technology has surely enabled is the ability to build a truly global network. photo credit: weeviraporn via photopin cc. Call your mom today!).

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VC Cafe

MARCH 18, 2014

Deepika Padukone, Best Bollywood actress of 2014. Apple has a very limited market presence in India, due to high price and limited distribution. Rapid Transition to Data Services : India’s mobile services market is more than US $30 billion per year, placing it in the Top 10 globally.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

For the market size, he states, “For my base case valuation, I’m going to assume that the primary market Uber is targeting is the global taxi and car-service market.” He then goes on to calculate a global estimate for the historical taxi and limousine market. The global market would obviously be much larger. New Use Cases.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

as a “17 Women to Watch in 2017,” by Entrepreneur Magazine as a 2016 “Woman to Watch,” and was selected to participate in the United Nations Foundation Global Accelerator. Founded in 2014, the fund has built the most recognized brand focused on leading female-run opportunities in internet and software startups.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 6, 2019

That’s right they are working with The Chemours Company, a global leader in fluorochemicals and refrigerant technology, to produce and distribute a new refrigerant to North America. The infamous company claims that the new gas has a lower Global Warming Potential.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 5, 2014

” As international sales for global eCommerce is projected to reach $1.5 Trillion dollars in 2014 , and is only expected to grow in coming years, delivering results that use the visitor’s “local language” will become increasingly important. Conclusion.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Join others who code to change the world for the better and explore distributed computing, examine the confluence between businesses and technology, and debate the power of technology on urban development. Hopefully we will see you there! FutureStack. Approach the future from different angles at the FutureStack Conference.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 10, 2019

In 2014, Pledge1% Global launched as a joint effort between Foundry Group, The Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado , The Salesforce Foundation and The Atlassian Foundation which we helped seed financially and continue to support. Pledge 1% Colorado has now distributed over $8 million back to various organizations in our community.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 10, 2019

It is a company that is proud of their efficiency, transparency, and clarity that has helped them become a company that is trusted globally. The company has been issued with a license to supply prepaid payment cards and debit card, Contactless programs (also referred to as PayPass) and virtual cards globally.

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The Equity Kicker

APRIL 4, 2016

We are now a global society and wealth inequality is now a phenomenon best understood globally. The problem is that our governments are still national, and national governments can’t control global capital. At that point we get riots and bad things start to happen, particularly when social mobility is also limited.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

The supply and demand for healthcare goods is increasingly global, driven by emerging economies, longer life expectancy and technological advancements. [2]. billion people) of the global middle class by 2030, up from just under one-third in 2009 [6]. Megatrends driving the growth in healthcare sector.

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Start Up Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2014

Every screen can deliver the same data, on the same day, globally. And yet, in 2014, decades into this shift, the powers that be, sorry the powers that ‘were’, are still avoiding their potential revenue. They’d say the cinema chains would cry foul and stop distributing their films. No doubt I’m not alone.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 12, 2014

The catalyst was Coca Cola which last year held its global marketing pow-wow at CES, the first time ever outside of Atlanta. Publicis Groupe, whose CEO Maurice Levy made a Keynote presentation, hosted more than 100 clients for floor tours, speed dating and an unofficial start of the 2014 selling season. Create Communities that Share.

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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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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Decades ago, the thesis of Yossi Vardi , a prolific technology entrepreneur who has invested in 75 Israeli startups, was that Israeli entrepreneurs should seek quick exit opportunities through global corporations interested in buying a window into Israeli talent and technology. In 2014, for example, 18 IPOs raised a record-breaking $9.8

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Create a Video Distribution and Delivery Strategy. Building your business via video outreach is an awesome goal, but without a defined video distribution strategy, your efforts may all be for naught. From Vimeo to VidMe and DailyMotion, today’s video marketer have plenty of distribution options.

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 21, 2025

The COVID-19 pandemic led to the rise of remote and distributed teams, a trend that continues today as companies seek cost savings and access to global talent. However, as our focus has evolved, so has the geographic distribution of value creation. Take the first wave we rode: Vertical SaaS between 2012 and 2014.

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thebarefootvc

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The growing NFT infrastructure allowed those that were not able to find markets for their art before to monetize their work through online global communities. When I launched FuturePerfect Ventures in 2014, it was on the thesis that new business models would be created from blockchain and cryptoeconomics.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

Who does X-Biomedical partner with to distribute the surgical visualization technologies to low-income and under-resourced countries? What are your company’s projections for the amount of time it will take to distribute Portable Surgical Visualization Systems to the majority of states in need?

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Finally, and importantly, society is better off because Amazon makes the system for distributing books (and other products) vastly more productive, freeing up resources for other value-creating investments. Thanks to the internet and other globalizing technologies, the entire world has entered the Networked Age. It’s a great business.

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thebarefootvc

MARCH 5, 2017

Consider this quote from a NY Times article from 2014: Dr. Abbott collaborates with scientists at Columbia and elsewhere, trying to build computer models of how the brain might work. Single neurons, he said, are fairly well understood, as are small circuits of neurons. I expect many more to come in the next few years.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 30, 2015

Are Paid Content Distribution Platforms Cost Effective? Paid Content Platforms: A Distribution Alternative? Not unlike creating a sponsored post on Facebook, a range of content distribution platforms have emerged over the last few years, aiming to automate the challenge of finding an audience for your content. CPC: $0.25–$0.30.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 16, 2015

Denmark’s Novo Nordisk is ranked 7th on the Global 100 most sustainable businesses list, which is compiled by the organization Corporate Knights Capital and unveiled at the World Economic Forum each January. Andela gives African programmers a fair shake in the global market. Global inclusion and new approaches.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Your time at ESADE has trained you to become a global business leader. Just look at the disruptive challenges that businesses face today– globalization, China as a manufacturer, China as a consumer, the Internet, and a steady stream of new startups. Congratulations class of 2014: Embrace change and lead the way.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Influencer collaborations: Clients will contract an influencer to leverage their social expertise in creating a piece of content but will also have them distribute it to their organic following. May 2014 – InstaElite gets accepted to Ryerson University’s DMZ incubator (#1 in North America). Influencers do not post the content.

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Growthink Blog

JANUARY 7, 2015

In addition to the massive flows of capital and wealth created and distributed by the top tech. And the soon to be in 2014 numbers will show another record year. In so many of the growth industries of the 21st century - Mobile, BioTech, HealthcareIT, Robotics, Social Media, Internet of Things - U.S. companies continue to lead the way.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

It’s been quite a journey getting here and there’s still a way to go as cryptocurrencies integrate with our global financial system. He shared his tips for building a global business, hiring, what he’d do differently and more… The Chainalysis journey ? How did you initially think about going global from a sales perspective?

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 30, 2014

Annual global spending on heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning systems is estimated at $80 billion.). Data and hardware, productivity and play: The lessons learned from Techstars are an affirmation of the direction the technology industry is taking in 2014. ” —FCC chairman Tom Wheeler on net neutrality regulation.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 5, 2017

Consider this quote from a NY Times article from 2014: Dr. Abbott collaborates with scientists at Columbia and elsewhere, trying to build computer models of how the brain might work. Single neurons, he said, are fairly well understood, as are small circuits of neurons. I expect many more to come in the next few years.

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Artificial Inteligence Algorithm Valuation Aggregator 40

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Blockchain is a distributed ledger technology (DLT) wherein all network participants can have separate copies of the entire record of transactions on the network. Another fund preparing to launch, Global Public Offering Fund, in a piece from CNBC.com last month boldly proclaimed that “the U.S. In 2014 Granger, a Ph.D.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

In blue is how much time we spent in 2010 and in blue the time spent in 2014. was the dramatic shift between 2010 to 2014 to mobile content consumption. They use different technologies of course, and different distribution mechanisms. Surely you are not surprised that digital finally beats TV. You have to solve for all of them.

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Brandanew

MAY 14, 2015

Brandanew: In terms of content distribution, do you think social is the single biggest channel out there? Ken Herron : Social is by far the biggest channel for free/low-cost content distribution. Or do you think with so much social media out there, direct mailers and company onsite content stand a better chance?

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 6, 2019

It’s a repeatable model that we’ve been able to apply globally to everything from autonomous vehicles to drug discovery. I sold the spa in 2014 (age of 37) and I have never looked back, not once. I launched my first business in 2014 and 5 years later, I’m still in the game. Was is easy when I got started?

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