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What in the World ?!?

thebarefootvc

I overviewed demographic and economic trends globally and outlined the opportunity for technology companies to access growth in the emerging markets. Jan Koum, one of WhatsApp’s founders, immigrated to the US from Communist Ukraine as a teenager. He worked at Yahoo, where he met his co-founder.

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Does Alternative Finance Exist In Singapore And Hong Kong?

YoungUpstarts

In Asia Pacific, the volumes in alternative finance have come from South Korea and China. China has the most active market, with over 600 P2P lenders, including Wangdaizhijia, Dianrong, and Renrendai. Combined, these two nations contributed about 95 per cent of deal flow in the region during 2010. Anthony Coundouris.

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Finding The Right Incubator For Your Business: The Three Most Important Questions To Ask

YoungUpstarts

The major misconceptions are that the incubator will help you form your founding team, will guarantee funding for the company and that they will directly invest in your company and possibly take a lot of equity away from the founders. But don’t fret. Xiao Wang is the general manager and chief fire starter at InnoSpring Silicon Valley.

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Women 2.0 » FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder

www.women2.org

female founders. founder friday. Lessons learned from female founders and women entrepreneurs. Startup Quote: Wendy Tan White on Building a Successful Startup » FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder. Tweet By Elizabeth Knopf (Co-Founder & CEO, Sorced). Conference 2012.

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How I Found a Great CTO

www.huffingtonpost.com

Minted.com is both a global design community and stationery retailer. I was lucky to sign on as advisor and investor the founder of a very high-profile consumer Internet site who happens to also be a former engineer, who I will call Richard. The first thing I did was to find an advisor who I could trust.

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April 4-Innovation in Private Company Liquidity-Online Merger Markets, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO

David Teten

We will discuss liquidity options appropriate for a wide range of people with private company stock, including private equity funds, venture capitalists, angels, founders, and employees with options. SecondMarket was recently honored by the World Economic Forum as a 2011 Technology Pioneer.

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

By aggressively launching a free to use service, Alibaba’s Taobao quickly became the leading person-to-person trading site in China. In November 2011, David Rosenblatt took over as CEO and has been scaling the company ever since. Poshmark was founded by Manish Chandra in 2011.