How to sell — the beginning. The Most Important Factor Of Startup Success. Investors Say Lawbreakers Like Airbnb, Aereo, And Uber Are Increasingly Worth The Legal Bills. How to Raise $2 Million in Two Days From People You’ve Never Met. Take Your Fundraising Pitch from Mediocre to Memorable with These Storytelling Tips. Tel Aviv, Singapore, Melbourne, and Bangalore make it into Intuit's top 20 startup cities (INFOGRAPHIC) Intuit just released this interesting infographic that you can check out below.
It breaks down the world’s top startup cities into eight key areas that distinguish them as major startup hubs: startup output, funding, performance, entrepreneurial mindset, trendsetting, support, talent, and differentiation. Of course, topping the list is Silicon Valley, but just behind is Tel Aviv, which surprises me because I was expecting New York. But given major acquisitions like billion-dollar Waze, clearly Israel’s second biggest city has got the gumption for startups. An Investor’s Take On The “Southeast Asia Kool-Aid” Matt Walters is a principal at Ardent Capital, a Bangkok-based VC firm with investments across Southeast Asia.
Matt comes from the US where he was previously the founding head of business development and CFO of Topicmarks, acquired by Tagged, Inc. in 2011. Sometimes when I read things, I feel the need to jump in and add my 2 cents. Maybe it’s because as a philosophy major, I love a good debate. Maybe it’s because for some reason I think all blog posts are aimed at me. I’m not sure. At Ardent, we are big believers in a “regional strategy,” and we like to encourage companies we deal with to be so as well. We love encouraging companies to think outside their own country when scaling, not just because we have made large sums of money doing it ourselves, but also because it makes an attractive target for potential acquirers.
The problem is that large businesses have a significant ROI hurdle, or amount of return that they have to deliver for their efforts and capital. A premium on reach. Inc.com. New Startup Event in Beijing Deflowers Hackathon Virgins. Of the 62 participants at 48Hour Start-Up, half were students, and three quarters had never been to a Startup Weekend or hackathon before.
Organizer Matthieu David says the French Junior Economic Chamber wooed the hackathon virgins by promoting most heavily at local Beida and Tsinghua universities, as well as cutting the already cheap RMB 100 (about $16) entry price in half for students. Half the Population Of The World Lives In This Circle, Asia Is The Future of Startups.
I’ve said it once, and I’ll say it again for the readers: the future of technology startups is gravitating strongly towards Asia.
And io9’s little map here makes that viscerally clear. The observation was made by ‘valeriepieris’ on Reddit a few days ago and underlines Asia’s significance in the world, including in a much broader context: Additional things I’ve realized: There are more Muslims in the circle than outside of it. 3 Things Every Startup Needs To Know Before Looking At Investors. Seed Finance Survey 2012. In early 2011 we published our first Seed Financing Survey (for 2010) in recognition of the growing importance of seed financing to entrepreneurs and the venture capital environment, especially in the internet/digital media and software industries.
This is the third such survey. In addition to providing information for 2012, this survey also offers comparative information with 2011 and 2010 to facilitate the identification of trends. The information contained in this survey is based on 61 transactions in 2012, 56 transactions in 2011 and 52 in 2010. The vast majority of these transactions were for companies based in Silicon Valley, with some from the Seattle, Los Angeles and New York regions. Techshops – Fablabs Gone Commercial.
Startup 101: How to do a Tech Startup, and Who's Out There to Help You. Most of the TechinAsia team is already in Singapore for Startup Asia Singapore 2013 for some in-depth discussion of the world of tech and startups.
Evernote Has 2 Million Users in Southeast Asia, Thailand Growing Fast. Last night at Tech in Asia’s Bangkok Meetup, Evernote’s Tiang Lim Foo, Asia Pacific Market Development, took the hot seat for more than 40 minutes for an interview followed by a lively discussion with the audience.
During the interview, Tiang revealed several interesting things. TechinAsia - Google+ - A fun graphic crafted from the book of the same name: 10 Mistakes to Avoid When Pitching Investors (Infographic) Like it or not, money is the lifeblood of a business.
If you are on the hunt for capital and have landed a meeting with an investor, your first impression can either be a deal breaker or money in the bank. According to Founder Institute, an early-stage startup accelerator in Mountain View, Calif., one of the biggest flubs rookies make in an investor presentation pitch is failing to include charts and graphs. If you aren’t sure how to go about making charts and graphs that relate to your financial projections, you can consider hiring a business student or a certified public accountant for a day to help. Also, the institute says, steer clear of promising potential investors that your startup is going to be worth $1 billion by its fifth year. 10 Step Guide to Running a Successful Crowdfunding Campaign. Why (Almost) Every Startup Should Be Working From Home. How Do You Scale Social Innovation Startups? Editor’s note: This guest post is written by Erica Kochi, the co-lead of UNICEF’s Innovation unit.
Her team started UNICEF’s open source RapidSMS platform which has been adopted in developing countries worldwide. She co-teaches a class ”Design for Unicef” in NYU’s ITP Program, is a global partner of Stanford’s New Product Design Innovation course, and has lectured at Harvard, Yale, and Columbia University on leveraging technology and design to improve international development. She previously wrote on TechCrunch about how the future of mobile lies in the developing world. All views are her own. You can follow her on Twitter. What “Disrupt” Really Means. Editor’s note: Andy Rachleff is President and CEO of Wealthfront, an SEC-registered online financial advisor.
Prior to Wealthfront, Andy co-founded and was general partner of Benchmark Capital. Follow him on Twitter @arachleff. Entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley love to talk about disruption, though few know what it really means. They mistake better products for disruptive ones. Silicon Valley was built on a culture of designing products that are “better, cheaper, faster,” but that does not mean they are disruptive. JFDI Picks 8 Startup Teams for 2013 Bootcamp. The Singapore-based JFDI nurtured and graduated its first ever batch of incubated startups last May, and now it’s time for JFDI to pick out its next bunch of hopefuls. In a new blog post today, JFDI points out that the eight selected startups have already won an immediate S$25,000 (US$20,000) investment to tide them over for 100 days and sleep-starved nights of programming, pivoting, and pot noodles. The grand prize comes at the next Demo Day where S$600,000 (US$485,000) in seed funding is up for grabs.
As with any demo day, it’s also a chance to wow us bloggers and – more importantly – catch the eyes of investors. 8 Startup Lessons on Working with Big Brands. Simon is currently CEO at Frenzoo. He was previously APAC head of emerging technology at Juniper Networks. He is an angel investor in startups, and a writer on startups and gaming. Follow his blog or on Twitter. “If you’re doing a startup, there’s an allure to big brand partnerships.” The Power of the Crowd When Planning Your Startup. A few weeks ago I started a new project. Taking the VC role when raising funds for your startup. Credit: tjohansmeyer Note from Shlomo: The original post was written last week and took a couple of days to collect all materials for it.
So, this didn’t really happen yesterday but a week ago. How to build a startup ecosystem? Last Sunday, I had the privilege to talk at Barcamp Beijing which was great and VERY exciting.