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5 Mistakes We Made While Growing A Startup In Southeast Asia

YoungUpstarts

Along with Ben Rogmans – Saleduck’s CTO and co-founder, the two have spearheaded the movement towards expanding Saleduck in five countries within Southeast Asia and are now looking towards furthering the platform’s presence in more countries within the region. Giving the wrong company perks and benefits.

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Why Online Video Just Took One More Big Step to Legitimacy

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Our industry just took one big step towards legitimacy with the hiring of renowned media exec Ynon Kreiz to run Maker Studios. This followed an investment late last year by Time Warner in the company in a round totaling $36 million , led by Rachel Lam , head of their investment group. billion deal to Disney.

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8 Tips To Get the Most Out of Your Investors and Board

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By spending more time educating your board on your business you get more valuable advice from them. Understanding where your VC partner sits in their respective fund and where their fund is in the cycle of its investment lifecycle will help you understand your VCs behavior. What Rob wrote in his post is right.

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Is Going for Rapid Growth Always Good? Aren’t Startups So Much More?

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Our partners have invested in more than dozen companies that became worth more than a billion dollars and that has disproportionately drive returns. So investing $3-5 million in a company and taking a year to 18 months to see how it develops before adding more fuel can often be the right course of action. million and then $5.9

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eve is coming to Austin

Austin Startup

From the very beginning, I knew we needed to set up shop in Munich and London; London because it’s the insurance capital of the world and Munich not only because it is second in insurance, but because it’s quickly becoming a tech hub in Europe. And we don’t have to tell you why but our next stop is Austin. Why am I telling you this?

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Ardent 1: Supercomputers Get Personal

Steve Blank

On a rainy day in Providence we tracked Andy down just as he was leaving for a trip to Europe. We told Andy we’d talk further when he got back from Europe. Wasn’t he a CTO or something? (He He was my role model at Convergent, mentor at Ardent and partner at E.piphany. We’re building a supercomputer.”

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On Leadership, Teams, Success & Happiness

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I want somebody that can deal with partners, interest future investors and keep everybody calm in moments of set-backs. You want somebody who can do handset deals in the US, Europe & Asia. You want somebody who can raise $15 million to build out your R&D, business development and sales organizations. Is it book smarts?