How to become a billionaire – leaked DST document. Facebook, Twitter, Groupon, Spotify, Zynga – How did Yuri Milner, helming investment behemoth DST (Digital Sky Technologies), manage to back internet winners all the way to the bank? How did the Russian outsider manage to blindside local VCs to sink millions into every social media powerplayer on the market and go from zero to an estimated $12bn in US assets in a mere two years? A DST document leaked to Venture Village points to the secrets of his success… An explosive leaked DST document has landed on the desk of VentureVillage. It forms a presentation pitch to provide an overview of DST’s online portfolio for potential multi-million-dollar investors (now presented as DST Global III) and reveals: Read on for how to invest like a billion-dollar winner… Rating: 0.0/5 (0 votes cast) All images in this article are subject to the Creative-Commons-Lizenz (credit - no editing, CC BY-ND , link to the legally-binding license agreement).
The Top 10 Russian internet startups – welcome to the wild web frontier. Russia is now the largest internet market in Europe, with more than 55 million online users, and an online market that is still in a massive state of growth – and a new frontier for US and German venture capitalists looking for the next big win. Yankov Sadchikov, Russian startup blogger at Quintura.com, talks us through the hottest internet properties full of Eastern promise… The online ad spend in Russia was valued at $1.4 billion last year and is expected to mushroom to more than 40 percent in 2012. Among the hottest market trends is the fact that modern Russians book travel and shop mostly online. Some of hottest tech on the web still comes from Russian engineers thanks to their strong educational background, plus the massive interest in the Russian tech scene following the successes of famous VC Yuri Milner.
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