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5 Ways Venture Capital Is Shaking Up The Tech Startup Landscape In Asia

YoungUpstarts

As software and technology such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Augmented Reality (AR) and fintech dominate the market, startups have to compete against each other to provide the latest goods and services. Venture capital fundraising can be divided into three stages: seed, early stage, and later stage.

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Starting A Business: A Financial Checklist

YoungUpstarts

by Tina Hay, founder and CEO of Napkin Finance. One of the most important factors in becoming a successful entrepreneur is managing finances. Whether early or later-stage, the growth of every company most often depends on how much capital is available to fund its growth. Define Your Business Model.

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The Summer of Initial Coin Offerings

Seeing Both Sides

Put aside the frauds and hucksters — time and transparency will cause them to shake out — and obviously not every business model is a fit for an ICO. In short, token sales allow early stage companies to skip the series B round and beyond. But many are. Shift of value from equity holders to token holders. Fuzzy Governance.

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The Summer of Initial Coin Offerings

Seeing Both Sides

Put aside the frauds and hucksters — time and transparency will cause them to shake out — and obviously not every business model is a fit for an ICO. In short, token sales allow early stage companies to skip the series B round and beyond. But many are. Shift of value from equity holders to token holders. Fuzzy Governance.

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Why Uber is The Revenge of the Founders

Steve Blank

— all great things when you are executing and scaling a known business model. But in the 20th century, dominated by hardware and software, technology swings inside an existing market happened slowly — taking years, not months. A 20th century VC was likely to have an MBA or finance background. Board Control.

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A conversation with Scott Kupor of Andreessen Horowitz, author and speaker at Lean Startup Conference 2019

Startup Lessons Learned

Learning everything you can about VC first is important for that reason, but also to ensure it’s the right form of financing for your business. It doesn’t make your business idea a bad one if you conclude that VC isn’t right for you.

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Technology Trends: 10 Areas of Innovation to Watch for 2012

This is going to be BIG.

Sure, some of the Android devices are beautiful, but if they become obsolete in a year from a software perspective in less than a year , this is going to be a serious problem. What's the business model? With the release of iCloud, that's less of an advantage now than it used to be. What will Facebook do to things?