VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Let’s start with Saudi Arabia who is planning a massive $100 billion AI project and the EU slapping Meta an $840M over abusive practices in FB marketplace. I pointed him to a couple of recent reports that showed that Israeli startups raised 35% more in the first nine months of 2024, than the equivalent period in 2023 (pre-war).

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Steve Blank

MARCH 3, 2015

We’ve gone global as well. Haas global footprint. For example, our Intel Technology To Market Accelerator took 22 teams from 11 countries across 15 time zones, from northern Russia to southern Chile and from Saudi Arabia to the U.S. Clearly, lean works globally. In fact, it works globally. Berkeley-wide.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

In economics we call these “exogenous events&# and if they happen (Greek debt crisis, problems raising the US debt ceiling, trouble in Saudi Arabia) – you will not be shielded. It’s what I love about entrepreneurship and about venture capital.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 8, 2014

In peaceful and stable countries like Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), for example, expatriates are more likely to be concerned about the state of their bank account rather than the geopolitics of the region. Business meetings are almost always accompanied by traditional Arab coffee and pastries.

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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. Perhaps this is why the Kuwait Investment Authority put $165 million into Jawbone and Saudi’s PIF put $3.5 Ok, Suster. So WTF happened? Why no winter?

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 28, 2015

While many international professionals understand that not everyone comes from the same place, in today’s global marketplace, there’s a certain expectation that new players who have joined the game have done some homework. However, in Japan, Saudi Arabia, and even France, it means something different. Never thought about it?

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

My professional career spans three countries: India, Saudi Arabia and the United States. If you work with your team of individuals and help figure out how to make the unit function at max awesomeness, you solve for a global maxima. A superstar you working at max awesomeness can solve for a local maxima.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 28, 2014

In today’s incredibly busy, globally interconnected world, it can be easy to unintentionally start taking things for granted. As we reported last week, this was the year of the inaugural Women’s Entrepreneurship Day during Global Entrepreneurship Week. Women can now be attorneys in Saudi Arabia. The feel-good news.

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Up and Running

MAY 13, 2015

While many international professionals understand that not everyone comes from the same place, in today’s global marketplace, there’s a certain expectation that new players who have joined the game have done some homework. ” However, in Japan, Saudi Arabia, and even France, it means something different.

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Speaking with Saudi government officials at the Roundtable on Saudi Skills and Employment Market, hosted by the Saudi British Joint Business Council , I was impressed by the emphasis that has been put on culture, tradition, and family values.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 28, 2017

You’ll learn all about the Global Maxima, definitions of AI/ML/DL, and the implications related to the work we do day to day. I lived in Saudi Arabia for almost three years. Saudi Arabia is a country that saw massively fast modernization. Working at DHL was a deeply formative professional experience.

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BeyondVC

OCTOBER 12, 2006

That growth results from sales investments Cisco made in the past couple of years, just as it had done previously in India and China. A large sales force of Cisco representatives is now making the case for oil-rich nations to invest in networks as a way to improve health care in those countries and create high-value jobs.

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Pascal's View

JULY 20, 2008

The United States is the “Saudi Arabia of wind”, as Pickens describes our country on his website pickensplan.com. The highest impact action we can take to break the oil monopoly and to eliminate our oil addiction is to go cold turkey– drug addicts break their dependency by changing their behavior.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 26, 2019

Iran, Qatar, Canada, China, Norway, and Saudi Arabia come next. Thus, the country controls less than 1% of the global natural gas market, with many gas projects being heavily affected by the political conflicts with the Western world. How to Analyze the Gas Market.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Cyberattacks, sabotage, and terrorism can affect oil and gas production, as has recently been seen in Saudi Arabia. Global economic pressures drive the increasing demand for oil. Security threats are another serious problem when it comes to oil and gas drilling, especially offshore.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 6, 2012

Think about gaining access to global markets, and how to build bridges internationally. Hoping to “democratize entrepreneurship globally,” Whitehill plans to take Entrepreneur Week to countries where there’s the “opportunity to make the most impact.” Currently he’s thinking Chile, Saudi Arabia, Australia, Portugal and Brazil.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 6, 2012

Think about gaining access to global markets, and how to build bridges internationally. The Democratization of Entrepreneurship Hoping to “democratize entrepreneurship globally,” Whitehill plans to take Entrepreneur Week to countries where there’s the “opportunity to make the most impact.” Partnerships. Proficiency. Possibilities.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2020

The same thing happened with MERS, the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome 10 years later that occurred initially in Saudi Arabia and spread to a little offshoot into Korea. That's the most important long term lesson I think that we as a global society should take home. Eric Ries : Just explain a little bit about what that.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

sovereignty in oder to enrich these global financial powers” but let me translate in dog-whistle to English for you — that’s referring to Jews. We are the global cabal who control finance, media and governments in the eyes of the conspiracy theorists. But what about Trump’s policies, Peter, do you find attractive?

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