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[Review] Startup Asia

YoungUpstarts

Asia – especially in countries such as India, China, Vietnam – is fast becoming the place where many entrepreneurs, whether locally born or lured back from Silicon Valley, are setting up shop. You’ll find out, for example, of how to tap on resources from local government.

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The Investors Guide to SXSW 2019

Austin Startup

It’s stocked with free food, drinks and wifi but the real reason you want to be there is because we’ve curated all of the top entrepreneurs, investors, and innovators at SXSW and invited them to stop by. Entrepreneurship in China: Will they Eat Your Lunch? Entrepreneurship in China: Will they Eat Your Lunch? NEXT STAGE?—?EXHIBIT

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How to Get Picked as a Speaker for The Lean Startup Conference

Startup Lessons Learned

Oh, and your salespeople have to make sure bookstores will stock it, and your marketing and PR people will have to make sure readers know it exists. You may have to pay the writer and photographer, and perhaps you’ll spend some money on training the writer to use blogging software and social media tools that help them build a following.

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Alibaba S-1: How Well Do They Monetize?

Agile VC

My first two posts on this mammoth S-1 covered a high-level sizing of Alibaba and a deeper dive into some of Alibaba Group’s governance which in some ways mirrors the Politburo structure. stocks inventory) and is really more analogous to Amazon. How exactly is each marketplace and complementary service monetized?

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Out of the Crisis #13: Alpha Lee on remembering the 2003 SARS epidemic and his opensource COVID-19 Moonshot

Startup Lessons Learned

The institutions that governed our lives before are under extreme stress, and the cracks and gaps in the system are becoming rifts and fault lines. First in Wuhan, China, and then the fact that it can spread so quickly in Italy and continental Europe really surprises me and I think a lot of others as well in the scientific community.

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2021 was a record breaking year for Israeli startups. What now?

VC Cafe

China: $104.4 The government set a goal to increase the percentage of people employed in tech t0 15% but it cannot be achieved overnight. Given that some of these new stocks have low trading volume, in practice the lock up period can be longer. January saw tech stocks rattle (read Fred Wilson’s the Selloff ).

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

online.wsj.com

Virtual Stock Exchange. Stock Quotes. Facebook went public in May with two classes of stock that give founder and Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg about 57% of the voting power even though he only owns about 28% of the shares. Zynga went public last December with three classes of stock. MarketWatch. SmartMoney. SmartMoney.