Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

According to a recent Ernst & Young global report , the first half of 2017 was the most active first half by global number of IPOs since 2007. Most just don’t enjoy all the challenges of communicating to analysts, placating demanding stockholders, and keeping up with legal reporting requirement.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 4, 2018

We just announced a few more things.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

It’s a $1T+ global industry undergoing tectonic shifts. We are currently seeing the most rapid collapse of retail since the Great Recession, due to the internet changing consumer demand and purchasing patterns. In 2017 alone, we’ve seen widespread store closures or bankruptcies from apparel retailers, including: True Religion.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

Technology is, like water, flowing and seeping into nearly every sector and eventually into most of the global economy. In 2017, Softbank rounds caught folks’ attention. 4/ Global Trade Wars Are For Real. The shift in consumer behavior and the intensity of the Scooter demand was undeniable.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 14, 2017

Fast forward to 2017 and a lack of diversity in the workplace remains an issue. demographics continue to change alongside a rapidly evolving global economy, the business argument for diversity has never been stronger, and that is especially true in the sales industry. The good news is that the time has finally come.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 20, 2016

A 2012 study done by IBISWorld revealed that VDRs experienced a steady growth of about 17 percent annually as a result of technological advancements as well as the growth of global demand for these storage services. trillion between 2012 and 2017 respectively. In the year 2015, global companies spent over $4.2 Accounting.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 15, 2020

If you want to feel bullish on how Lightning can be used as global payments rails, read this comprehensive essay by Nicolas Burtey of Galoy. TL;DR: The best analogue for Bitcoin itself is a global settlement layer like Fedwire (run by the Federal Reserve for interbank settlements with an average transaction size of $2 million).

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The top 20 tech billionaires globally have lost $480 billion on paper in the past year. This is largely due to several major stock market crashes and global economic uncertainties. That means that investors are contractually demanding to get 2-5x their investment, before other share classes get paid.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 9, 2018

Statista predicts that global e-commerce sales will reach $4.87 Given that Google has demanded that all websites should have a mobile-friendly version to offer smartphone and tablet visitors, it should be reason enough to make sure that your e-commerce website design is fully responsive. So, you want to build an e-commerce website?

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Many academic labs are less interested in market trends and largely ignore competitive landscape and market demands. Translational research made an indelible mark in 2017 when Dr. Hanna attended the Institute for Biomedical Entrepreneurship (IBE) conference. Lammasu Pharma Born from Innovation and Global Necessity.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

exabytes per month (or 134 exabytes annually) by 2017, according to he Cisco® Visual Networking Index Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast for 2012 to 2017. In fact, during the forecast period Cisco anticipates that global mobile data traffic will outgrow global fixed data traffic by three times. Mbps) to 2017 (3.9

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

This massive data creation and the potential for new data insights has driven explosive demands for systems that perform at both scale and speed. The founders are committed to the global distributed computing community and engage fully by offering and sustaining a free community versio n for life.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 20, 2019

While it doesn’t publish prices publicly, an interview with the Demandbase CEO in 2017 claimed that the average revenue per customer per month was $20,000. As the Forrester report notes, “Jabmo is best for marketers targeting global industrial/manufacturing accounts.” Demandbase. Then it may be the better choice.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 16, 2018

With an aging baby boomer generation and statistics that place 55% of the RN workforce at retirement age, the nursing industry is ripe for a new incentive to fill the growing global nurse shortage. Where do you see your business in the next 3-5 years? Any advice you would give to entrepreneurs and business owners?

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

As Ethereum took off in 2017, we began taking Ethereum profits and investing in more speculative crypto protocols. We held our first close on August 1, 2017. Our investment thesis is simple: Blockchains will impact trillions of dollars of economic activity across many industries globally.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 13, 2017

Initially, it was estimated that TV would be on top until 2017 but surprisingly social channels overtook the tv numbers very early this year. More importantly, the page like advertising demands a targeted audience, not the cheapest likes. To build an offer advertisement, Facebook demands a minimum of 50 likes on your page.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 9, 2018

The global beauty market is predicted to grow from $432.7 Amalie Beauty is now an in-demand, six-figure beauty business. — ColourPop Cosmetics (@ColourPopCo) April 27, 2017. In 2017 it put a call out for a name for a new, yet-to-be-released concealer and within seconds had dozens of replies. The future is upon us.

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View from Seed

JUNE 30, 2022

AB: The global meat market could be worth as much as $2.7T To meet this growing demand, the industry must provide alternatives to the traditionally sourced animal meat. Anita has a background in bioprocess engineering and has been actively involved with the alternative protein space since 2017.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 25, 2020

Today The Global Startup Ecosystem Report 2020 by Startup Genome was released, ranking the top 30 and 10 runner up global startup ecosystems, with a data-driven approach based on talent availability, connectedness (density), VC activity, etc. The top 30 global startup ecosystems ranked. And, I do like stats.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 13, 2017

WPP and Kantar Millward Brown just released their latest BrandZ report on the most valuable global brands. The 2017 Brandz Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands report offers important branding lessons for startups and small business. Startups are better at detecting and unlocking emerging and latent demand.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The report Microneedling Market – Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends, and Forecast 2018-2026 indicates that the market is expected to enjoy steady growth over the next five years on a global level. from 2918 to 2025. Pulsed Dye Laser for Broken Blood Vessels. Photo by Joeyy Lee on Unsplash ].

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

Global social media analytics and optimization company Socialbakers has announced the opening of its new Asia-Pacific headquarters based in Singapore. ”By 2017, Asia-Pacific will have the largest social network population worldwide. ”By 2017, Asia-Pacific will have the largest social network population worldwide.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 21, 2018

While 2017 was truly the “Wild West”, the growth of the sector (and its reluctance to self regulate) has led to the 2018 being the year of reckoning and increased scrutiny…. Binance and Huobi Global did not reply (Huobi’s US subsidiary did), while Kraken responded in opposition to the inquiry.

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thebarefootvc

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

While 2017 was truly the “Wild West”, the growth of the sector (and its reluctance to self regulate) has led to the 2018 being the year of reckoning and increased scrutiny… Bitmain, the world’s largest crypto mining company, filed for its IPO on the Hong Kong stock exchange.

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thebarefootvc

OCTOBER 29, 2018

While 2017 was truly the “Wild West”, the growth of the sector (and its reluctance to self regulate) has led to the 2018 being the year of reckoning and increased scrutiny… The nerve system and the hypothalamus in the brain, if the male is too tired.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

JUNE 13, 2017

Gregg Fraley and Karen Kirby, copyright 2017. The demands of digital leadership and the enterprises of the future could dramatically accelerate that rate in the next few years. We constantly witness the global reach and influence of social media. Does Any CEO Have the Luxury to Ignore Digital Transformation and Innovation?

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Legal cannabis generated $16 billion in total economic output in the United States in 2017, and research indicates it will increase 150 percent by 2021, according to a report from cannabis industry analysts Arcview Market Research , in partnership with BDS Analytics. The global market for CBD oils is expanding due to their medical efficacy.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Some companies like Niantic, creators of Pokemon Go , generated over a billion downloads, despite seeing some drop in players in 2017. Talent – Demand for AR engineers soars. The market is seeing a huge surge in demand for AR developers. It also drove $249 million in tourism revenue in 2019 with its walking events.

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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 May, the Indonesian on-demand motorbike startup Go-Jek managed to raise $1.2 Drives development in technology.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

He has served as a teacher for the Stanford ME310 Global New Product Design Innovation Program and has also been recognized as one of the top 30 Designers Under 30 in 2015 by Forbes magazine. AI consumer productization places higher demands on human-computer interaction, which can also empower artificial intelligence products.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 10, 2018

trillion in 2017 according to e-Marketer, and hitting the US$3 trillion by 2021. Interestingly cross-border transactions are surging with Forrester Research projecting that cross-border sales will constitute 20% of e-commerce sales globally by 2022 with Asia Pacific the largest region. Global and robust infrastructure.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

—– UP Fund is a rolling venture fund launched in Q4 2020, and part of global SaaS accelerator Upekkha, based in India. As of summer 2017, about one third of their investments were with the Indie.VC Region: Global with focus on Europe and US . More on Reformation and their insights can be found on their Medium blog.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Tim Friedman, Founder, PE Stack , said, “If I could offer one piece of advice to today’s managers, it would be to take the time to understand the demands of the modern institutional LP. As of the beginning of 2017, ffVC spun out Totem into a separate business. 3) Raise capital. VisibleVC helps companies to provide data-driven updates.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 7, 2017

How would you describe your primary business objective in 2017?”. To put a finer point on it, we have found that when you adhere to the following three demand-based priorities companies can drive growth while saving 20% or more of total costs – costs that are often completely overlooked through traditional cost-savings mechanisms.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 19, 2016

billion, and by 2017, nearly half of global mobile users are likely to own a smartphone. This is where using a Demand-Side Platform (DSP) — inventory across a variety of ad exchanges, networks, and publishers– becomes incredibly useful. According to Dazeinfo research , there were about 1.13 in 2013 to 1.43

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Similar companies more focused on later-stage investors include Avention , Bureau Van Dijk , Dow Jones , FactSet , Genesis , S&P S&P Global Market Intelligence , DueDil , Core 2 Group , D&B Hoovers , InsideView , LexisNexis , Pitchbook , Preqin , PrivCo , Thomson Reuters , and Unquote.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 30, 2017

According to a 2017 small business marketing trends report , one in five small business owners surveyed said they weren’t planning to use any digital marketing tactics this year. One that can be tuned down to target local customers or opened up to achieve a global reach. Think you’re too busy to learn a thing or two about marketing?

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