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[Event] [Singapore] Techventure 2011 To Introduce Techventure Asiasons Innovation Awards

YoungUpstarts

Techventure 2011 – one of Asia’s topmost events for the venture capital community to engage with the latest technology entrepreneurs organized by Asiasons WFG and presented by National Research Foundation (NRF) and Singapore Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (SVCA) – will celebrate its 15th year on October 13 and 14.

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4 Definitive Ways To Deal With Outages

YoungUpstarts

In what is arguably the most massive security breach in history, hackers stole credit card and personal information from 77 million PlayStation users in mid-April 2011. Sony – Nothing like a heartfelt executive apology. Sony had to suspend the PlayStation network as it investigated the intrusion.

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Why LP’s Passed on Seed Funds 10 Years Ago (And What’s Happened Since)

View from Seed

The reality is that seed investing as a strategy was not a new thing back in 2011, and one could point to multiple prior waves where this sort of investing just didn’t work. This expanded the definition of seed to include $5M+ rounds, and you often hear of seed firms now passing on deals because they are “too early”. Then Doordash.

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Calling Vince Lombardi: Four Mega-Trends for 2011

Growthink Blog

When seeking breakout companies to back, here are four mega-trends for 2011: 1. Well, in 2011 look for “end of email” company movements to gain steam and social currency, and to – blasphemy of blasphemies – for articles to proliferate re social networking mainstays Facebook and Twitter having “jumped the shark.” What to do about it?

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The Changing Venture Landscape

Both Sides of the Table

By definition?—?I’m In 2001 companies IPO’d very quickly if they were working, by 2011 IPOs had slowed down to the point that in 2013 Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures astutely called billion-dollar outcomes “unicorns.” The market today would barely be recognizable by a time traveler from 2011. Are we in a bubble?” dot-com bonanza.

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The Midas List Then and Now

View from Seed

Interestingly, it looks like the Midas List skipped 2010 and changed methodologies considerably in 2011, so you’d need to wait until 2021 to do a true look back. This was definitely one of the major trends over the last 10 years. What will be interesting to see is whether this persists.

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10 Reflections After 10 Years of NextView

View from Seed

In some cases, great companies massively expand the definition or potential of the market with innovative products, technology leverage, and great execution. Looking back, our biggest mistakes and omissions as a firm can often be traced to improper market definition. This definition yielded a pretty small opportunity.

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