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A dumb American’s perspective on investing in Southeast Asia

Hippoland

It’s one thing to hear from other people that Southeast Asia (SEA) is up-and-coming, but it was totally another thing to go there and talk with so many people about the future. But it’s arguably even harder in a place where there aren’t ready distribution channels. Customer adoption is always hard wherever you go.

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A dumb American’s perspective on investing in Southeast Asia

Hippoland

It’s one thing to hear from other people that Southeast Asia (SEA) is up-and-coming, but it was totally another thing to go there and talk with so many people about the future. But it’s arguably even harder in a place where there aren’t ready distribution channels. Customer adoption is always hard wherever you go.

Asia 48
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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

online.wsj.com

Loading… Asia. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. In early 2011 an acquisition by a Fortune 500 company fell apart. Less than 1% are currently in IPO registration.

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The iconic VC-Backed founders are all White & Asian men. So why invest in diversity?

David Teten

Of the 30 Asia-based founders, all were natives of the country in which they built their businesses: 23 Chinese, three Japanese, two Korean and two Indian. Kauffman Fellows Report (2020): “Diverse Founding Teams generate higher median realized multiples (RMs) on Acquisitions and IPOs]. Of course, this dataset is incomplete.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

great web customer acquisition tutorials. free, distributed source code control management system. mixpanel vs kissmetric vs google analytics review. Analytics blog â?? good analytics tutorials. SEO for Startups â?? good tutorial. Andrew Chenâ??s s Essays â?? Analytics Tools. Google Analytics â?? web analytics from the borg.

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The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed?

pandodaily.com

Meanwhile, the rash of early liquidity and recent IPOs — unsatisfying as they were — gave liquidity to thousands of employees at large companies, and a subset of those made very real money. This time around, there has been an explosion at the early stages, and the very late pre-IPO growth stages. Source: AllThingsD ]. -