thebarefootvc

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

This past May, Modi was elected Prime Minister of India in a historic election. Today, he gave a speech to a crowd of 20,000 at Madision Square Garden, outlining steps he is taking to cut bureaucratic red tape and encourage the Indian diaspora to invest back into India. In 2030, India is expected to surpass China in population.

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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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Austin Startup

JULY 14, 2017

Silicon Valley — another American racist/sexist shithole just like the Segregated South When the Internet first came around in the mid-1990s, it was herald as “The Great Equalizer” where anybody with a keyboard can start an e-commerce shop, publish their works and reach the world to millions who are also attached to the Internet.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. In these series of 5 posts, I thought I’d share what I learned in China. I was only in China for a week so this a cursory view. All the usual caveats apply. Entrepreneurship in Beijing.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 24, 2012

I would categorize these champions in two camps: the “Local Champions” and the “Global Champions”. The first category includes companies that have a dominant position in their national market and are often internet or ecommerce companies. mobile phone per person for the Top 4 EE countries (vs. in GE, 1.3 in Brazil and 0.8 in GE, 1.3

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2014

How important is the Internet to the world’s economy? Consider this: the Internet accounts for 3.4% And it’s growing rapidly too – global internet use is increasing, which also leads to increased GDP and thus creating jobs and wealth. Others economy infographic Internet'

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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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ReadWriteStart

JULY 23, 2012

Every online startup has a global presence, whether that’s its goal or not. With headquarters in both San Francisco and Bangalore, India, Sheth says the decision to go global was a no-brainer: “Since there is no physical product shipping, we decided to be open to the world. Lead image courtesy of Shutterstock.

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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. Sequoia Capital recently made headlines with the NASDAQ IPO of Mecox Lane, a Chinese Internet retailer and the seventh IPO by a Chinese company backed by Sequoia in the last 18 months.

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Growthink Blog

AUGUST 29, 2010

Since the great “financial crisis” of 2008-2009, the firm’s clientele – really without us even trying – has becoming increasingly global. In the last 6 months, we have advised clients and investors, in no particular order, from Kenya, India, Italy, South Africa, Germany, China, Brazil, Mexico, Switzerland, the U.A.E.,

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 23, 2012

Every online startup has a global presence, whether that’s its goal or not. With headquarters in both San Francisco and Bangalore, India, Sheth says the decision to go global was a no-brainer: “Since there is no physical product shipping, we decided to be open to the world. Lead image courtesy of Shutterstock.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. In these series of 5 posts, I thought I’d share what I learned in China. I was only in China for a week so this a cursory view. All the usual caveats apply. Entrepreneurship in Beijing.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Obviously, none of us can accurately determine what the future will hold, but thanks to globalization, rapid advances in the scientific and technological sectors, and a very connected online world ( among other things ), change is happening faster than ever before. And in the 21st century, it will take China and India just 15 years.

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thebarefootvc

OCTOBER 17, 2011

I overviewed the growth of the global internet and penetration, noting that the future of the Web was going to be driven by emerging countries, as mobile connectivity continues to be more ubiquitous and the West is largely penetrated. Globalization of the Internet. conference in NYC, in September 2010.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 23, 2012

Every online startup has a global presence, whether that’s its goal or not. With headquarters in both San Francisco and Bangalore, India, Sheth says the decision to go global was a no-brainer: “Since there is no physical product shipping, we decided to be open to the world. Lead image courtesy of Shutterstock.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 16, 2013

Rather than fading away anytime soon, what we see is that crowdsourcing has transferred to the Internet. The Internet provides a particularly good venue for crowdsourcing since individuals tend to be more open in web-based projects where they are not being physically judged or scrutinized and thus can feel more comfortable sharing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2022

New entrepreneurs who want to survive, and optimize the growth of their startups, need to think globally, and act locally, from day one. This approach, popularly known as “ glocalization ,” means you have to design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market in which you operate.

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Up and Running

MAY 16, 2016

To date, North America has dominated the home health care global marketplace due mainly to a more sophisticated health care infrastructure and more resources committed to research and development. In 2013, North America accounted for just over 40 percent of the global home health care revenue. percent from 2014 to 2020.

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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 It appears to be the latter. million from those exports each year.

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 13, 2010

BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India and China) are the buzz word in business for good reason. The internet has made it possible to have a global work force from launch date, and the same cost advantages that multinationals have had since they started exporting labour to China and other parts of Asia since the 1960’s.

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Growthink Blog

JULY 23, 2012

Well, for starters they a) pursue global Markets b) place company culture above all else and c) They embrace the Black Swan within and without. They Pursue Global Markets. 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. Your India strategy? •

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2019

New entrepreneurs who want to survive, and optimize the growth of their startups, need to think globally, and act locally, from day one. This approach, popularly known as “ glocalization ,” means you have to design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market in which you operate.

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 23, 2013

Thank you, Internet! The New Global Economy. It’s not because the US produces all the worlds stuff (China does, mostly), it’s because we buy all the world’s stuff. As the US slowly is decreasing its consumption (relative to other countries), Russia, Brazil, China, India and other are on an incline.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 1, 2017

Sushi – a food that has reached its tentacles around the world and is now served in over 20,000 restaurants outside Japan, can be considered a truly successful global product. The advent of the Internet means that geographical and social boundaries no longer inhibit business and we are now living in an era of interconnection.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2018

million daily active users, expand into India as a second home market and launch the second generation of our Halo Sensor that has significantly more sophisticated sensing capabilities. Bruce Sterling’s closing keynote/rant where he talked about the internet in 2007 as “folk” technology. Has anyone on your team been to SXSW before?

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thebarefootvc

MARCH 8, 2012

A Global Platform: That being said, I wanted to leverage my global network from years of investing in Silicon Valley, Europe, Asia and Latin America to build a venture platform that adds value beyond NYC borders. Startups are not immune to globalization and can accelerate growth if thinking globally from launch.

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Cracking the Code

APRIL 15, 2014

market globally. Mobile represents 15% of internet traffic, growing at 150% per year but users spend 87% of their time on mobile on applications (vs. mobile internet), so this underestimates the actual penetration. India is following with companies like Flipkart which grew its revenues 5x last year.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2023

In my experience, the Silicon Valley startup model, focused on disrupting established industries, has treated the USA well and created some great global businesses. In effect, Silicon Valley needs to take a more global perspective. Target a global market rather than a local from day one.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Public market holdings aren't dominated by internet companies with questionable business models the way they were in the late 90's. On March 20, 2000, Barron's wrote, "America's 371 publicly traded Internet companies have grown to the point that they are collectively valued at $1.3 trillion, which amounts to about 8% of the entire U.S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2022

I found some good lessons in this regard in a classic book, “ Becoming Facebook ,” by Mike Hoefflinger, the former Head of Global Business Marketing at Facebook. For others, including Facebook, it is penetrating China despite political constraints, and India, where only thirty percent of the population is on the Internet.

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Reid Hoffman

APRIL 14, 2014

billion people in China, India, and other developing countries will join the global middle class. As the global middle class expands, there will massive opportunities for entrepreneurs to create more efficient industries and more productive business ecosystems. Over the next decade and a half, 2.5

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Increasingly it became difficult to tell any system integration company apart and there was a whole new breed of competitors in the market helping companies build Internet businesses. Andersen had lost its long-time CEO, George Shaheen, was hemorrhaging staff and wasn’t exactly known as being an Internet pioneer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

New entrepreneurs who want to survive, and optimize the growth of their startups, need to think globally, and act locally, from day one. This approach, popularly known as “ glocalization ,” means you have to design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market in which you operate.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

New entrepreneurs who want to survive, and optimize the growth of their startups, need to think globally, and act locally, from day one. This approach, popularly known as “glocalization,” means you have to design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market in which you operate. Find global sources now.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

We boast the world’s second highest fixed broadband Internet subscription rate only an inch behind Sweden. Ninety-four percent of households are equipped with a computer and have Internet access (the others are still playing 8-bit Nintendo). At home we have entrepreneurs who think global day one. We need a center of gravitas.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2011

New entrepreneurs who want to survive, and optimize the growth of their startups, need to think globally, and act locally, from day one. This approach, popularly known as “glocalization,” means you have to design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market in which you operate. Find global sources now.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Targeting Global Markets. These users, living in fast-developing countries like China, India, and Indonesia, will soon start to develop their own spending power. Smartphones are now responsible for a third of internet access , up from 23% in 2014. This represents a huge number of potential new customers.

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