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

The Next Web

Asia has far fewer VC firms and institutional investors, each of which invests a far smaller amount of capital. Many Asian entrepreneurs tell me that they want to raise funds from Silicon Valley firms because they perceive the valuations to be higher. Third, investors are generally much more conservative in Asia.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

An investor had few hard metrics other than the actual financials, and little technology to make the process scaleable. Over the past few decades, better metrics became available, and investors could take a more analytical, data-driven approach. ” Historically, investing was a manual, artisan process.

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Looking Back On Our First Couple Years at NextView

Rob Go

Early Progress: Performance is a difficult thing to measure as a seed stage fund given the time horizons and the fickleness of private company valuations. In either case, it’s a decent enough quantitative metric and an interesting data point at this stage in the portfolio’s progress. OUR INDUSTRY. There was no Angellist.

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$20,000 in 2020: Bitcoin’s Point of No Return

thebarefootvc

What happened after that crypto crash were 3 intense years of building behind the scenes – namely the scaling, custody, regulatory clarity and transparency required before institutional investors could feel comfortable holding this emerging, computer based asset class. All in one day!

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How the Seed-Stage VC Trend Began, The Downsides of Unicorns & Much More

Both Sides of the Table

And to show you just how similar many of these pioneers of the industry went through a similar startup journey to you – Jeff started by investing his own personal money ($250k) for a few years – $25k at a time – until he could persuade a few institutional investors to give him some money.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Excel and Google simply aren’t going to cut it if you expect to build a high quality institutional investor base.”. Beacon technology system , which automatically outbound-solicits a universe of over 10,000 institutional investors, without requiring LPs to register for an online network of funds. . 7) Negotiate .

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Creative Common Stock

ithacaVC

One rule of simple cap tables is to issue “normal” stock to founders (common stock only) and investors (typically preferred stock, but sometimes common stock to early friends and family). A real institutional investor wants to invest $XX,000 in his company. There are no exceptions to this rule.