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Spain’s Ticketbis Raises Additional Round To Fuel International Growth

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million since its founding in 2009. This investment will be dedicated to consolidate our leadership in the markets in which we are already present and accelerate growth in recently opened regions, such as Asia,” said Jon Uriarte, CEO & co-founder of Ticketbis. . million, making it a total of $12.7

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JFDI.Asia Accelerator: Bootcamp Practicalities

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by Meng Weng Wong, co-founder and social engineer at JFDI Asia. Because we’ve learned the hard way that $100,000, which is six months of runway in Silicon Valley, is a retirement jackpot in half of Southeast Asia. Some founders stay at hostels. JFDI offers co-working too so if you want to stay on campus, you can.

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Singapore’s ClearBridge BioMedics Raises $9 Million Series B

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The investment news is significant because while quite a number of Singapore-based startup companies have been successful in landing Series A financing, further rounds of funding have remained elusive for most.

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[Singapore][Event] Echelon 2011

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Echelon , Southeast Asia’s biggest conference for technology startups, is back for its 2011 edition and looks to be even more exciting than before. Many of these startups have all gone and made their mark – there’s Gothere.sg

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Why I Invested in Gogii (textPlus) – My First Ever Later Stage Deal

Both Sides of the Table

Gogii came in my office in 2009 with three of the most talented founders I had seen. Scott Lahman , Zack Norman & Austin Murray were the three co-founders of JAMDAT, the most successful mobile 1.0 I’m on record all over place saying that 70% of my investment decision is the team & 30% is the market.

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Sneak preview, KISSmetrics (and more)

Startup Lessons Learned

► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica.

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Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets

Startup Lessons Learned

► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica.