Mucker Lab

AUGUST 27, 2014

Almost 30 years ago, my father decided to uproot the entire family from Taiwan to the United States so that his academically “inconsistent” son could have an education tolerant and perhaps even encouraging of his idiosyncrasies. From my experience, it’s not necessarily about “quality,” but rather about “sophistication.”

Los Angeles 138

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 29, 2024

Spoiler alert: I believe that 2024-2025 will be an amazing time to invest in early stage startups. Supply chain, in particular around chips (which might be impacted severely in case of an escalation in Taiwan), can cause havoc in tech. And I’m excited to be in the market to support them on day one.

Generative AI 172

Generative AI Global Venture Capital Valuation 172

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

A Taiwan outfit created a c lanaguage interface to EEMS which worked, but I had to speed it up by a factor of 4 by rewriting what they did. Sun Microsystems has a program called Startup Essentials [link] thats designed specifically to help early stage startups get into some great equipment, free software and other great stuff too.

Bootstrapping 41

Bootstrapping Offshore Startup EC2 41

VC Cafe

JUNE 24, 2011

VentureTech Alliance, and Taiwan’s CIDC. Kickstarter – the crowd-funding platform has become a popular source of early stage funding… and publicity. According to Israel Venture Capital (IVC), Ra’anana-based Advasense raised $31 million in 2005-07 from Giza Venture Capital , BlueRun Ventures.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 3, 2020

And if you want to cooperate with China, that leads you down a path where you put Taiwan relations on the back burner. As well as a bilateral trade agreement with Taiwan. If you look at the history of some of our autonomous drone systems, it was Congress poking the Pentagon to get over their intransigence at the early stages.

Technical Review 235

Technical Review Technology China Taiwan 235

pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

This time around, there has been an explosion at the early stages, and the very late pre-IPO growth stages. “The real winners here are going to be the seed funds and early stage VCs that can write a $1 million to $2 million check,” says AngelList co-founder Naval Ravikant. Now it’s glutted.

Technical Review 93

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