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How to raise money for your startup from VCs and investors in Asia

The Next Web

But the problem with this is that most VCs in the Valley, especially early stage ones, only like to invest in companies that are within driving distance from their offices. As I touched on before, China and India have the most mature VC communities. Sequoia , Accel , NEA , etc.). Golden Gate Ventures , Jungle Ventures , etc.),

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The Start-up Scene In India

YoungUpstarts

He recently founded The Startup Centre , an India-based accelerator for early stage start-ups, and also a hub for initiatives related to tech, design and entrepreneurship. We communicated with Anand who kindly shared with us his thoughts on the start-up scene in India. I came back to India , in 2004.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Incubators Are Reaching Out To 1M/1M

ReadWriteStart

First up, Satya Choppadhandi from Bangalore, India, presented Evolutech Networks, a company that manufactures wireless energy monitoring devices for the smart home. The smart home business is still in the very early stages in India, and it will take some time before Evolutech ramps up. GeoInvenio.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 1M/1M Announces Partnership With TiE Chennai

ReadWriteStart

a group of entrepreneurs from TiE Chennai gathered at the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M) Research Park campus, and we spent the next four hours discussing strategy and tactics of early-stage entrepreneurship. The product has won a national award from the president of India for its empowerment of people with disabilities.

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Pound Around the World – My Thoughts from Random Hacks of Kindness

VC Cafe

For example, you can save 7 trees in the rain forest in south america for £1, and in India you can get all you can eat curry…(see the presentation on the link below – 300 views in about 1 hour from posting!). Pound Around the World. View more presentations from Eze Vidra.

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Bridging the gap between tech startups and the Fortune 500

David Teten

For example, Qualcomm Ventures hosts an international business plan competition called QPrize , which targets mobile technology startups. The most common tactic we’ve seen from large corporations is providing a package of benefits for startups in order to build relationships with early-stage companies. 3) Freebies.

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[Singapore] Golden Gate Ventures Invests In Three Local Startups

YoungUpstarts

Singapore-based early-stage technology seed fund Golden Gate Ventures has announced investments into cloud-based inventory and sales management SaaS solutions provider TradeGecko , online grocer RedMart and mobile payment provider Coda Payments. We are really excited to be at the heart of it,” says Bragiel.

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