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The New Order of Silicon Valley: Forget the Silicon Part

Diego Basch

If you are interested in hardware innovation, you want to be in Asia. Either you will bootstrap the business or you will partner with someone local to fund it, because VCs won’t give you the time of the day. build an execution team wherever convenient (could be Asia, Europe, India, anywhere in the US, who knows).

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Strategy Roundtable: Investors Don't Fund Broad Ideas

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Then Lokesh Parakh discussed a consulting service that he and his five colleagues are trying to pull together in the pre-paid card business, helping non-banking financial institutions launch card services in South Asia. Gemalto, the smart card world leader comes to mind as a possible vendor. It might be a much better alignment of skills.

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10 Tips for Enterprise Software Startups

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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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[Event] Tech In Asia Jakarta 2015

YoungUpstarts

Online platform for Asia’s tech community Tech in Asia will round off its highly vaunted Tech In Asia Conference series for this year with Tech In Asia Jakarta 2015 , which will take place on 11 and 12 November 2015 at Balai Kartini. More speakers will be confirmed closer to date.

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

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Should We Take Harvard MBAs Seriously as Startup Founders? [New Data]

View from Seed

Let me be the first one to state that fundraising does not equal success – some of the best companies are bootstrapped for a long time and raise money only sparingly, if at all. Others are dominating categories in foreign markets, such as Dafiti, Linio, Coupang, and Grabtaxi. Also not surprisingly, many are in California (26%).

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How To Pitch An Entrepreneur And Persuade Her To Take Your Cash

David Teten

With the rise of a trillion-dollar crowdfunding market, angel investors bundling their investment offerings, and family offices doing more direct investments , venture capitalists are no longer the only available source for entrepreneurs seeking funding. He writes: Explain one situation where you bootstrapped a business yourself.

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