Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

In 20 years we will look back at the first few elections of the global Internet age the way we remember the smoky backrooms of elections past. And the rising powers of our age, the Brazils, the Indias, the Chinas, fight not with tanks and guns but with bits and bytes and rent-a-coder and hard work and hustle. Idealistic, you say?

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

Three trends which started in 2010 should continue into 2011 and should accelerate as the year goes on: VC funding will continue to accelerate fueled by the global growth in entrepreneurship; job creation will see gains, fueled by startups and small business; initial public offerings will see a comeback. Investors will be bullish on startups.

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Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Pursue Global Markets 2. Pursue Global Markets. If you don’t have a business that can scale globally, then either don’t bother or just content yourself with staying small. In that same time frame, United States IPO volume declined 75% in real terms and now accounts for less than 11% of the global total. In the U.S.

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

To the first question, I would point to three main factors –payback for the 80’s and 90’s, globalization, and governmental intervention. As for globalization, in this context it is the idea that wealth in the last 11 years has not so much been destroyed as it has simply moved from the U.S. For the U.S. So what to do?

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VC Cafe

APRIL 7, 2011

Broadcom Corporation, a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, is acquiring Provigent, an Israeli company which develops system-on-a-chip products that enable wireless system vendors to deliver broadband wireless backhaul systems to network operators.

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

To the first question, I would point to three main factors –payback for the 80’s and 90’s, globalization, and governmental intervention. As for globalization, in this context it is the idea that wealth in the last 11 years has not so much been destroyed as it has simply moved from the U.S. For the U.S.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 27, 2016

by Raj Subramaniam, Executive Vice President, Global Marketing and Communications, FedEx Services. Globally, only 38% of SMEs currently export overseas, even to markets right next door. Globally, SMEs that sell overseas generate average revenues of US$1.5 Could it be that exporting overseas is simply not worthwhile?

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Startups are aiming for a global, not local market. It was surprising many startups are aiming for a global, not local market. The internet has no barriers when it comes to reaching an international user base and these startups are capitalizing on being able to have a global reach. Governments supportive of technology.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 20, 2011

1) There’s a growing buzz around entrepreneurship - several people mentioned that in the past, students that graduated from college hurried to find a job in big company and in the case of Brazil also the government. Funding comes largely from angel investors and government grants. But that is now changing.

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Growthink Blog

JULY 30, 2012

To the first question, I would point to three main factors – continued payback for the 80’s and 90’s, globalization, and governmental intervention. As for globalization, in this context it is the idea that wealth growth in this period has not so much been paused as it has simply moved from the U.S. For the U.S. Just keep it simple.

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VC Cafe

JULY 7, 2010

The Bank of Israel played an important role guarding the Israeli economy from the effects of the global financial crisis. Eureka was set up in 1985 as a legal framework allowing European companies to collaborate and receive government funding. INTEL CORP BUYS ISRAEL’S COMSYS. citations per paper.

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Bryce Dot VC

JUNE 26, 2013

Countless voices have taken to the airwaves and tubes to weigh in on where lines should be drawn and whether those rules should be different depending on the intent of those prying eyes- be they corporate or government for ad targeting or target practice. We are watching.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

Surfers alway want to know the waves conditions in real-time and they want to stay connected with their local and global community. After more than a year of growing the goFlow global surf community, we realized that this need to know the conditions in real time doesn’t only apply for surfers. Thanks to Roni Eshel, goFlow ! .”

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 10, 2011

Tsunamis, Middle East crises, government shutdown threats and a looming budget deficit are all dampers on the market. Remember, it wasn’t a straight line between 1995 and 2000 – there were a series of macroeconomic crises on the domestic front, such as a near government shutdown (sound familiar?)

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VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

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. BRAZIL GIVES FINAL APPROVAL FOR ISRAEL-MERCOSUR FTA.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Most outcomes analysis you will do in identifying your macro and micro conversions (for profit or non profit sites, government or ecommerce) will happen inside other tools mentioned in this blog post. I know of no other way to achieve one's global maxima on the web. Outcomes Analysis Tools [The "How Much"].

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 25, 2011

In addition to the investor-entrepreneur socializing, the government of Israel was able to score two key contracts with two foreign nations. Investors from all over the world were present from Germany, France, Brazil, Switzerland, Australia, Canada, and the Netherlands; even a news reporter from New Zealand appeared for the event.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

New York checked in at Number 5 in the Ecosystem Index but it’s the global capital of female tech entrepreneurship. Startup Chile is a government-sponsored effort to attract and support entrepreneurs from inside and outside Chile with cash and services. Sao Paulo, Brazil. ” Women Love New York. Seattle, Washington.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 6, 2018

The only people who get anywhere near the action are people who have a UN Grounds Pass or who can afford to go to the Clinton Global Initiative. I’m speaking this summer at the Social Good Brazil event – which is larger than ours in New York City. It's very opaque in terms of how it's governed and how the algorithms work.

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Seeing Both Sides

OCTOBER 3, 2011

What this means is that any economic development effort must be framed in the context of the following central question: how can the government help more young companies be formed, grow faster and achieve long-term success? Fortunately, there is a constructive policy conversation in this area on both sides of the political spectrum.

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Transformify

AUGUST 6, 2015

According to Nepali government officials, it will cost over $6.6bn and at least five years to reconstruct and rebuild the country. Women represent two-thirds of all illiterate adults globally. The investor’s business activities are governed by the applicable law in the country of domiciliation. Source: Aljazeera).

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

With population reaching 7B, food shortages around the world, deforestation accelerating global warming — there simply is no way we can continue to increase the carbon foot print and sustain the human species in the next 100-200 years. In my homeland, Brazil, it was largely used, and I grew up with many people taking. “Why?”

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