Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2016

Outsourcing is defined as contracting the work to another company, usually located in a developing country, like India, China, or Eastern Europe. For example, it is no secret that software pirating is still very common in China, Vietnam, and other cultures. The same applies to manufacturing and almost any process these days.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 15, 2017

by David Nagrosst, head of sales for Cyxtera Technologies in Asia Pacific, Australia and Japan. As the cloud becomes increasingly common and the data deluge shows no signs of slowing down, the good old firewall is simply no longer sufficient for protecting the highly distributed assets of the enterprise. The onset of death.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 26, 2023

More and more, people are experimenting with these new technologies that enable anyone to write better, brainstorm, invent, craft and get inspired with text, images, video, voice, music and more. Every day, we hear about new products and services that are meant to enhance human creativity and productivity.

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View from Seed

MARCH 4, 2020

There is always some debate about the methodology and accuracy of the list, but I think it’s a pretty interesting data set that reflects some of the things that have been happening in tech and VC over time. Innovation is Becoming More Broadly Distributed. Firm Persistence.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 30, 2020

First, our dependence on one single nation (China in this instance) for essential products must change. I think it is safe to say that most people didn’t think about global supply chains , manufacturing, and distribution before COVID-19.

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Gust

AUGUST 22, 2012

How spoiled we are, taking for granted a system of government with relatively stable, transparent laws and regulations, consistently applied (at least in theory), and subject to judicial oversight with appellate review. Distributed teams can work across multiple countries in ways that make the most efficient use of human capital.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

By the time Silicon Valley white privilege culture, tech magazines that promote only white faces, Ethereum/Bitcoin fanboys, sellout black tech wannabees and globalists promoting their blockchain consortium get a hold of this article, it’s already too late and the game already ended a while ago.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 26, 2022

Press releases are becoming less successful, partly due to the difficulty of obtaining earned media. 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. 7- 6G will rule.

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VC Cafe

JULY 29, 2016

of imports and $900 million of exports) a paltry fraction of Israel’s $45 billion bi-lateral trade with the United States or $15 billion with China. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, keen to reassert Japan as a leading global player, and fearful of an ascendant China, is encouraging stronger ties with Israel. Billion ($1.6

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 16, 2011

The Sleeping Dragon Awakes in China. During the Forum, Cloud Computing was highlighted as the number one technology priority for companies in 2012. Our CloudSSL is an SSL distribution service available via API and is designed specifically to help web services operate securely in the Cloud.

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Austin Startup

JULY 14, 2017

Today, Silicon Valley took the Great Equalizer and established a system of inequality where only white male faces are prominently displayed in “tech media”, VC firms exclude African-Americans and sexually harass women tech entrepreneurs and we also see Silicon Valley firms talking up some “lack of pipeline” bullcrap.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2021

That could be a standard sale contract, i.e. buy and sell single items or batches, or a partnership agreement, i.e. contract manufacturing, sales agency, or distribution agreement. Alibaba and DHgate are both based and focused on mainland China. B2B Marketplaces in Asia. Not all businesses like that. B2B Websites in Europe.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 26, 2019

I frequently see promising startups with a great product and strong initial economics hit a wall due to the piling up of problems relating to these questions, or what I like to call the ‘DTC death by a thousand cuts’. Bloggers are especially valuable in the early days when consumers are looking for actual reviews that are searchable.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 22, 2019

In the past year, we learned that Bitcoin probably has a large enough worldwide distribution that it’s hard to stop. It’s becoming increasingly clear that decentralized technology is still very early and a lot of heavy lifting is needed for projects that require true scalability. .

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Transformify

MARCH 14, 2020

These days, due to coronavirus outbreak, many businesses have asked their employees to work from home. At the same time, the stock markets collapsed, and most businesses already report skyrocketing losses, unmet revenue targets and insufficient stock due to production slow down in China, India and the rest of the world.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

But as impressive as its technology is, the Apple’s smartwatch has been a product looking for a solution. Large tech companies like Google, Amazon, Apple recognize that the multi- trillion dollar health care market is ripe for disruption and have poured billions of dollars into the space. Healthcare on Your Wrist.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 18, 2014

Despite the momentum with India, Israel-China (including Hong Kong) trade is on-track to hit $10 billion this year, representing 13% of total Israeli exports (Bank of Israel). Youthful Demographic : India’s high birth rate, in contrast to China’s one child policy, means a young demographic.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

But with changing consumer trends and the benefit of technology, some startups are beginning to look at ways of innovating the grocery shopping experience for the better. Europe and China, it wasn’t quite so in Singapore. Lee couldn’t find a Singapore-based solution he would use, and so he set out creating his own.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

BigBand Networks, which has more than 200 customers in North America, Asia and Europe, provides broadband service providers with digital video networking solutions designed to make it easier to distribute, manage and monetize video. ISRAELI AIR FORCE TECHNOLOGY HELPS IMPROVE SPORT PERFORMANCE.

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Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. You can learn as much from these cautionary tales as you can from the enduring successes, plus studying a broad sample of firms helps avoid drawing false conclusions due to survivorship bias. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. How To Think About The Future. July 11, 2012.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

The last 40 years have seen an explosive adoption of new technologies (social media, telecom, life sciences, etc.) Not only are the number of new technologies and entrants growing, but also increasing is the rate at which technology is disrupting existing companies. Figure 1 : Five technology revolutions source: Carlota Perez.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

Published on: July 13, 2011 Posted By Angie Tags: Elizabeth Knopf , Finding A Co-Founder , FounderDating , Sorced , Technical Co-Founder , Tips & Tricks. Consequently, I either needed a tech co-founder or to pay someone to develop the product. Thus, I embarked on the journey to find a technical co-founder.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 17, 2013

The distribution techniques are completely new. Due to the design complexity outlined above, many developers attempt to short-cut the system by blending elements of the desktop or mobile web world into their applications (or will argue to simply wrap HTML in a container and call that a mobile app). HTML5 is a head-fake.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Technology. This service is temporary unavailable due to system maintenance. Loading… Tech. Personal Technology. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. TECHNOLOGY.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

That was actually my first foray out of where I started, which was sports media and into tech and marketing. I came out of the marketing tech world. They were taking the playbook that was proven and trying to apply it with incremental changes to fit each new market and that had worked except in China. Jay Acunzo: Yeah.

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Scalable Startup

JANUARY 15, 2015

I’m a startup growth consultant who started a digital marketing + web development agency due to such high demand from my startup clients. Hire them 8 hours at a time and review daily by skype, g hangout. Our strategy was to move to a distributed model where the entire scrum team works together offshore. still have hope.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

They use different technologies of course, and different distribution mechanisms. According to Pew, while cell phones are nearly ubiquitous around the world (95% China, 91% Chile, 82% Kenya), penetration of smartphones are still getting there (37% China, 39% Chile, 19% Kenya). You have to solve for all of them.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2020

When he realized that the technology the company had built could potentially be used to test for COVID-19, he jumped in feet first. Fred Turner was building a biotech company here in the Bay Area working on sepsis detection when he realized that the technology that he was building could potentially be used to test for COVID-19.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2018

Example: wechat in China. In an A/A test the distribution of p-values is random. The reasons were all technical (bugs). Tech helping us monitor behavior. Challenge data silos (metrics split out by different devices) by reviewing your metrics. Messenger will become the biggest channel over the near years.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 11, 2020

29:24) We talk about the social and economic impact of all the technology we've all been using to make our lives possible these last weeks. (35:09) Sam was one of the first people I saw in the tech world jumping up and taking the leadership position related to COVID-19. There's a good enough vaccine to get the virality rate below one.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 24, 2020

His main scientific goal, whether it's addressing cancer, SARS-CoV-2, or something else, is "to bridge this gap between all the new really exciting technologies that I could see emerging and the actual practical applications of treating patients." And then co-founded Helix Nano Technologies, or HelixNano, which I am now the CEO of.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Interesting to watch Google’s approach to its digital distribution model – compared to Apple’s – [link]. Why China should fear the Egyptian revolution – [link]. – [link]. Apple’s 30% subscription policy looks rough for publishers. Is Apple a bit too greedy? – [link].

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David Cohen

APRIL 1, 2018

Like when I did this in China in 2013 with Andrew , who is now 16, I wrote a daily email home and am just posting them all here chronologically with a few photos. We got an upgrade on that second flight due to my status, so had first class. Move that to there and evenly distribute it so the land is flat. 3 hour second flight.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

This post was co-authored with Omri Stern and originally appeared in Harvard Business Review. of the world’s population — has more companies listed on the NASDAQ than any country in the world save the United States and China. Israel has been branded the “startup nation.” That’s disappointing for a country with so much potential.

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www.pakman.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

To build the online media giants of tomorrow, companies need models where the costs of both content and distribution are near zero. Things like business white-papers or product reviews are perfect examples of informational traffic. There is no “Facebook of China.” 26 September 2012. 20 Comments. Jeff Richards.

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Transformify

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Managing distributed workforce and remote teams was not something totally new for them. As the epidemic started in China, its economy suffered a lot and it’s still too early to predict the total losses. Most flights from and to China have been cancelled and it will definitely take time for the tourism industry to recover.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 4, 2020

Max Henderson : distributed around the country and the world. And my family there had to essentially drive through a border control that technically wasn't letting anybody across state lines, right? Because we can outsmart the virus, we have the tools and the technology and the science. And this is not just tech.

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