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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. The interesting thing about the US market is that customer acquisition these days is actually fairly straightforward online now for most customer audiences.

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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. The interesting thing about the US market is that customer acquisition these days is actually fairly straightforward online now for most customer audiences.

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Taking Corporate VC: When It Makes Sense

View from Seed

I was an early employee at PayPal and back in the 2000-2001 timeframe, and we ended up taking a fairly significant amount of strategic investment (tens of millions of $) from various banks in the US, Europe, and Asia. It doesn’t mean it can’t be done, but having say Google as an investor can make it tricky to work with say Apple.

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10 Tips for Enterprise Software Startups

ReadWriteStart

The big enterprise software companies almost all bootstrapped their way to profitability before they got their first external investors (typically via an IPO). Bernard is based in New York, was born in Berlin, has lived in and started companies in Asia and Europe as well as America; he is comfortable with globalization.

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

online.wsj.com

Loading… Asia. In early 2011 an acquisition by a Fortune 500 company fell apart. Less than 1% are currently in IPO registration. Globaloney: Globalization Challenged. Asia/Pacific. WSJ Classroom. Ran gold Resources Ltd. View All Search Results » Subscribe. América Latina. Deutschland. Real Estate.

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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

Cracking the Code

Save Asia for post-IPO Single instance, multi-tenant, single datacenter - Have only one version of the code in production. The CLTV is the net present value of the recurring profit streams of a given customer less the acquisition cost. Cashflow is the other key metric. Philippe Botteri. Bessemer SaaS Law #2.

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

David Teten

We reviewed CB Insights’ global list of “40 of the Best VC Bets of all Time.” 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. What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? Of the 43 U.S.-based