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JFDI.Asia Accelerator: Bootcamp Practicalities

YoungUpstarts

by Meng Weng Wong, co-founder and social engineer at JFDI Asia. In the US, seed accelerators offer more than $100,000 to startups. Because we’ve learned the hard way that $100,000, which is six months of runway in Silicon Valley, is a retirement jackpot in half of Southeast Asia. Some founders stay at hostels.

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The $100M+ Club: A New Universe of Buyers ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

On the B2B SaaS side or enabling services (e.g. Included are some of the large companies above like Google and Microsoft but also active on the B2B/enabling side have been acquirers like Salesforce.com (Radian6, Heroku notably) and Apple (Quattro Wireless, Siri). Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC.

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Opportunistic & Thematic Investing ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

At NextView we’ve intentionally taken an approach which combines both thematic and opportunistic investing for a couple reasons: 1) Our Overall Strategy is Highly Focused - We’re a dedicated seed VC fund, so we invest in startups exclusively at the seed stage. Pingback: watch toy story 3 free online. Read More ».

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Farmeron ? Why SaaS for Cows is Incredibly Exciting ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

seed round today. NextView is thrilled to have co-led this round along with our friends at SoftTech VC and Farmeron’s existing investors 500 Startups, Seedcamp, and TAG. I first met Matija Kopic, Farmeron’s co-founder & CEO, a few months ago. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC.

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Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That's Never - AgileVC

Agile VC

Both are building on top of the existing credit card infrastructure because as Swipely Founder/CEO Angus Davis points out, millions of people are walking around with a mobile payment device in their pocket… it’s called a credit card. They picked online, because signing up online B2B partnerships is quick, easy and capital light.

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Does Your VC have an Investment Thesis, or a Hypothesis?

David Teten

(co-written with Stephane Nasser , co-founder of OpenVC , an open-source initiative to collect and analyze all VC theses.). OpenVC is a new, open-source initiative to collect and analyze all publicly available VC theses, to help founders more efficiently find the right investors, and vice-versa. of venture capital deals.

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Essential Startup Funding Tips from 8 Seasoned Investors

mashable.com

And for those in the coveted in-crowd, Silicon Valley, San Francisco and the greater tech community become a world of opportunity where you’re only limited by the quality of your idea and the caliber of your friends. Craig is currently the CEO and founder of stealth-ish startup BetterWorks. and Path Intelligence.