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SparkLabs Global Ventures is a seed-stage investment fund. We believe business is now truly global, but most investors are not. Exceptional entrepreneurs that are building strong, category defining companies can be found anywhere. SparkLabs Global is a team of highly experienced entrepreneurs and operators based in London, Los Angeles, Seoul, Singapore and Palo Alto, CA

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Our infographic on the Top 10 Startup Hubs in the world!  A teaser to our upcoming update of “Global Technology Trends & Startup Hubs 2014″coming out in a few weeks.

This infographic also has great quotes from some of the entrepreneurs that we have invested in :)

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Homejoy Shuts Down After Battling Worker Classification Lawsuits

This is one of the first startup casualties as a result of the worker classification issue.

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The Case For Priced Seed Rounds

When I was a kid, there were a series of memorable commercials from a company called Fram which made automobile oil filters. The message behind all of their commercials was that you could pay $4 fo...

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Total transaction volume on Venmo for 2015 has already surpassed last year's total numbers, too.

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Emma Stone is into Korean Pop. Another reason why Korea is cool. We knew this :)

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Market-Makers, Surfers and 10x’ers: A Model for Investing in Enterprise IT

Warren Buffet’s right-hand man and Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, Charlie Munger, credits much of his and the Oracle of Omaha’s success to an adherence to mental models, particularly in their...

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15 predictions Bill Gates made in 1999 that became true

Eugene Kim looks at 15 bold predictions Bill Gates made in 1999 that at the time might have sounded outrageous.

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Outliers are valuable because they offer us 20/20 hindsight to reevaluate and challenge the assumptions we may have originally held to be true. Lyrically, it’s been a linguistic technique I’ve used in writing this one post about Snapchat and then another one about the Whatsapp acquisition — both […]

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Backed By Spark Capital, Andela Will Develop A Continent Of Tech Talent

Genius is evenly distributed; opportunity is not. That truth is the driving principle behind Andela, a startup currently building a network of top tier..

Congratulations to the Andela team on their Series A!

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An Orientation for Offshore Colleagues

Two Nigerian programmers travel from Lagos to the Flatiron district to meet their remote coworkers.

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Inside Target’s Tech Funhouse and Search for Its Next Billion-Dollar Business

Homey scenes come to life inside a new tech wonderland created by Target, designed to show off Internet-connected home devices.

Petnet!

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American Entrepreneurship Is Actually Vanishing. Here's Why

According to recent studies, the rate of startup creation has been decreasing for years. Are we witnessing the slow death of entrepreneurship?

Serious issue to be aware of.

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Our affiliated accelerator in Korea's DemoDay5 highlight video! Over 1,400 people attended!

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China's dominant mobile car-ride hailing company Didi Kuaidi said it raised $2 billion in a fundraising round as competition with U.S. rival Uber Technologies Inc heats up on its home turf.Didi

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SmartUp — Using mobile to reach and inspire future founders everywhere

Solving a massive problem — how to identify, nurture and inspire future entrepreneurs at a global scale

Our co-founder, Frank Meehan!

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In Defense of the Deck

My partners and I have noticed an interesting trend over the past few years: an increase in the number of entrepreneurs who prefer to pitch us without the use of a presentation deck. On one hand, t...

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Where’s the Payoff? Not in Lending, Says Lending Startup

Wall Street’s infatuation with online lending is heating up. The latest example: a firm that wants to apply the science behind online dating to personal finance.

Go Payoff! Payoff's recent debt deal!