Start Up Blog

AUGUST 16, 2018

Number of Australian subscribers at August 2018 (and % change vs last year): Netflix 9.8m (+30%). And sport won’t save Foxtel either, as we can expect these two things to happen: Tech firms like Amazon and Facebook to start hoovering up rights to major global sporting properties. Foxtel 5.4m (-3%). Stan 2.0m (+40%).

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Cleargraph (Distributed Systems) joined Coinbase to continue their work on human-friendly decentralized identity. Blockstack is currently hosting a global speaker series, Decentralizing the World , where thought leaders discuss and present on key topics related to decentralization, the new internet, censorship, token economies and more.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

The market for our product was global, and we had unique advantages in terms of our product and how we distributed it to customers. She is also an elite member of the Forbes 30 Under 30 list and was nominated as a World Economic Forum Davos 2018 Young Global Leader. But I also faced some significant hurdles.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 22, 2019

But you only have to talk to people from high inflation countries like Argentina or Venezuela to understand the appeal of a globally-accessible and permissionless digital currency. In the past year, we learned that Bitcoin probably has a large enough worldwide distribution that it’s hard to stop.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 26, 2022

We may be waiting for 5G in the UK, but China has been studying G6 since 2018 and started properly testing it with the support of its big national telecommunications companies in 2020, according to editors at inc.com. Thanks to Kevin Burke, Extension PR ! #7- 7- 6G will rule. Photo Credit: Anjelica Rivera. 12- Company culture a priority.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2019

Hence one segment of the opportunity is the need for new database technologies, like Hadoop , a distributed file system originally designed for indexing the Web. Global personal location tracking. Global manufacturing. Every day, we create 2.5 The Human Genome Project, which took 13 years, could now be completed in hours.

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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 21, 2019

We argued extensively in our book, Blitzscaling , that these strategies and tactics describe why Silicon Valley Bay Area – which has a population of less than 4 million – generates such a massively disproportionate number of global technology companies. Distribution. Distribution. What makes a company Blitzscale-able?

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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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Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

Some businesses can service all four cities with a single distribution hub in one of the cities, making it a unique market for launching new businesses. This number will double by the end of 2018 as we invite new mentors from Dallas, Houston and San Antonio. Texas is part of a global ecosystem No city lives in isolation anymore.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 5, 2018 SXSW has announced 50 finalists for the SXSW Accelerator Pitch Event. What does Pawame hope to accomplish in 2018? What kinds of people is your team looking to meet at SXSW 2018? Half of these startups will demo their talents on Saturday, March 10, and the remaining 25 on Sunday, March 11.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

But the reality is that “global warming” massively blunted the effects of winter and my prognosis for VC fundings of entrepreneurs in 2017–2018 is now very sunny indeed. GLOBAL seems here to stay unless something stupid Trump’s it. Global “WARMING” But “global” isn’t the only story, warning is at least half of the equation.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

We spoke to James Dinsdale at Trade Finance Global about what a trade war is, why they arise, and the arguments around their effectiveness. Moreover, tariffs are distributional; some producers gain, and some lose. What is a trade war? This means its consumers pay comparatively higher prices or receive comparatively lower quality goods.

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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]. trillion by 2018 [3] as major demographic and technological trends drive future growth. trillion by 2018 [3] as major demographic and technological trends drive future growth.

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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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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

A Nielsen survey from 2018 shows that U.S The large investment flows into entertainment fuel advanced in technology to produce, to distribute and monetise content that educates us, relax us, entertains us, and so on. In 2018, CVC investments surged dramatically, surpassing traditional VC investment in the US ( see VC Cafe post ).

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

If you live in a major hub of VC - e.g., Bay Area, Boston, NYC, LA - it’s easier to tap into your local resources to help augment your understanding, but there are a lot of smart people with great ideas in other parts of this country and globally for whom access to information is just not as available. but globally.

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Start Up Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Fast forward to 2018 and nostalgia is ironically, very now. The reason nostalgia can make such a big comeback (pun intended) is that we have the tools at our disposal to promote something, we can outsource manufacturing and a connected world means that the niche can often survive with thin, yet global distribution.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 20, 2018

The General Protection Regulation introduced new measures to secure online data across the EU in May 2018. The EU’s Data Protection Regulation – GDPR – has been set up to better control the way personal data is stored and distributed online. by Emily Cocker, Senior Digital Strategist at London SEO Agency. What is GDPR?

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Lindsay Guion, the Founder, CEO, and Global Chairman of Guion Partners , describes the current state of sports entertainment and offers a glimpse of what the future may hold. Companies that distribute sports content to the public currently commit 15 percent of their total budget to their streaming and mobile divisions.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

As the chart below displays, the cryptocurrency market was in the middle of its second major correction of 2018, and began a recovery process after the hearings. Similarly, I believe that ‘do no harm’ is the right overarching approach for distributed ledger technology. I think this distributed ledger technology has enormous potential.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

2018 set yet another all-time record for the number of paper books sold in the United States, as has been repeatedly true during the era of Amazon. Thanks to the internet and other globalizing technologies, the entire world has entered the Networked Age. Publishers and authors (like O’Reilly and us) also benefit from Amazon’s success.

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Austin Startup

MAY 31, 2019

The Problem Like most media companies, independent TV distributor Parade Media relies on a multi-channel distribution strategy to engage those audiences that just don’t watch traditional linear TV anymore. How Parade Media used AdInMo to get their TV products in front of elusive audiences.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 2, 2018

In his fireside chat with Silver Lake co-founder Glenn Hutchins, SEC Chairman Jay Clayton started his remarks talking about the promise of distributed ledger technology (aka blockchain). We are also able to benefit from the global nature of this sector with regulatory “experimentation” in different jurisdictions around the world.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 2, 2021

COVID-19 has caused global acceleration of many trends that were already happening before the pandemic and the immigration to Texas and especially Austin are no exception. When anyone can work from anywhere, they don’t evenly distribute across the country.

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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. In 2018 my wife and i drove from London to Cape Town along the west coast of Africa. First, we built relationships with 10+ colleges, getting distribution rights to their students.

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thebarefootvc

MARCH 19, 2018

Ahead of more regulatory concerns, cryptocurrencies entered a bear market (with Bitcoin down to $7200 and Ether near $500) this past week before recovering earlier today on a statement that the FSB did not see cryptocurrencies as a risk to the global financial system. The post Lightning Strikes the Sector appeared first on The Barefoot VC.

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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. In 2018, Taobao GMV (Gross Merchandise Value) was a staggering RMB2,689 billion, which equates to $428 billion in US dollars.

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thebarefootvc

JANUARY 20, 2015

Towards the end of the 20th century, we began to see movement towards more distributed networks. We also began to see more distributed server networks including grid computing (the use of several computers in a network to solve one problem simultaneously) and virtualization which helped mitigate risk in the event of central failure.

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thebarefootvc

JANUARY 20, 2015

Towards the end of the 20th century, we began to see movement towards more distributed networks. We also began to see more distributed server networks including grid computing (the use of several computers in a network to solve one problem simultaneously) and virtualization which helped mitigate risk in the event of central failure.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 19, 2018

THE IMPORTANCE OF GENDER PARTNERSHIP ‘The future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed.’ It combined the thrill of problem solving for some of top global companies with the even bigger thrill of always being part of a high performing team that tackled those problems shoulder to shoulder. WOMEN’S STORIES OF MALE ALLIES?—?THE

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Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

on a global stage) and specifically the Bay Area (within the U.S.) TechCrunch’s Kate Clark has done a round-up of the largest “private VC” rounds of 2018, and there’s a whole other list for just $100M+ financings led by Softbank’s Vision Fund. I am expecting a downturn at some point.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

could reach $66 billion by the end of 2018; globally, it is expected to reach $170 billion by 2020. While October has now come and gone, cyber security remains an extremely important topic and will continue as such through the foreseeable future. According to Forbes , spending on cybersecurity in the U.S.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 11, 2020

That potential continues to attract more B2B marketers, with 66% active on Instagram in 2019, up from 57% in 2018. Grey Group is a global advertising and marketing agency that has offices in 96 countries. Will Instagram soon be a primary channel for most B2B companies? So should you bother? micro-influencers).

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Hippoland

JULY 6, 2018

At this point in time in 2018, I think what makes the most sense is for a startup to start where he/she wants to be. Many startups these days are using a distributed model successfully. 5) What the future holds I think that an increasing global trend is that a number of cities will (and already are) emerging as startup hubs.

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Hippoland

JULY 6, 2018

At this point in time in 2018, I think what makes the most sense is for a startup to start where he/she wants to be. Many startups these days are using a distributed model successfully. 5) What the future holds I think that an increasing global trend is that a number of cities will (and already are) emerging as startup hubs.

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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. January 2015 – #paid opens the doors to all SMBs globally. Influencers do not post the content.

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