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Challenges and Opportunities for Europe’s Metaverse Market

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Europe’s Metaverse Market: Niche Operators and Start-ups While the US and Asia dominate the Metaverse market , Europe has yet to establish a major presence in the industry. Historically, European startups have lagged behind the US and Asia regarding nurturing unicorns. However, he also admits that they face major challenges.

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Everything you should know before working with investors across Asia

The Next Web

Entrepreneurs with businesses in Asia know that fundraising here can be a daunting task. With this in mind, I would like to use my experience as an entrepreneur, having closed several sizable rounds of investment around Asia over the last six years, to help explain the landscape as it currently stands.

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How long will the “seed stage bubble” last?

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How long will the “seed stage bubble” last? It’s never been easier to raise seed funding, and there’s warnings that we’re in the midst of a “seed stage bubble.” We @Mokriya (mokriya.com) have been helping these early stage startups innovate on Mobile platforms.

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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. All things being equal, seed and early stage startups are not usually well suited to take strategic investments.

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What the West needs to know about Russia’s tech scene

The Next Web

Much of the slack at seed stage funding is taken up by the Russian state. In sharp contrast to the US and UK governments, in 2013, the Russian Government provided around 38 percent of seed deals and 24 percent of startup stage funding. Asia Entrepreneur Europe Insider' The role of the Russian Government.

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Stanford Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Grows

Campus Entrepreneurship

The leaders have seed funds that give students a chance to explore the feasibility of their ideas. Stanford is a leading campus when it comes to entrepreneurship and a new seed fund deepens the web of entrepreneurship on campus. Will more early stage investors start official partnerships with campuses?

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US, European and Asian entrepreneurs: SparkLabs launched a $30m seed-stage fund just for you

The Next Web

There aren’t a tonne of funds focused on seed-stage funding worldwide, but we can add a new one to the list today. SparkLabs , the company behind the accelerator program in Korea , is expanding its scope with its first seed-stage fund that will “help great startups go global.”. Asia Entrepreneur Insider News sparklabs'