radical candour from a deep generalist
Good to see this is back.
One of the best resources in SEA region for tech/VC job hunting.
This week we have selected 19 positions from Venture Capital (Openspace Ventures) to Startups (Transcelestial, CardUp, Homage, 90 Seconds, ViSenze, Tradegecko) to Centaurs (Mixpanel, Appier, Carousell) to Unicorns (Stripe, Grab) to MNCs (Zendesk, Rakuten, Google, Facebook).
Great read.
This one gets me – I know this feeling:
Undoubtedly. It’s an amazing company — we should’ve owned more. But for us, it was an incredibly important investment.
Index Ventures is quietly encroaching into the top tier of American investors. Here are five questions with them.
— Read on www.recode.net/2018/8/5/17624034/index-ventures-mike-volpi-q-and-a-silicon-valley
This will be fun.
The policy will be the latest in a series of proposals that seek to spur data localization in India, as the government finalizes an overarching data protection law. Local data storage requirements for digital payments and e-commerce sectors are also being planned.
The authorities want the information stored locally so that they can more easily get access to it when conducting investigations.
Some good points in here.
Especially:
But we still don’t have consensus mechanisms that can scale to transaction speeds that are typical of mainstream web apps, we don’t yet have consensus mechanisms that are both energy efficient and battle-tested at scale, we don’t have an array of development tools that make building applications on this stack easy, quick, safe, and secure, we don’t have hundreds of millions of users with crypto browsers & wallets, and we don’t have all the other things that would need to be in place in order to move into the deployment phase.
But we do have the one thing that is the hallmark of a classic installation phase. We have a frenzy of innovation and financial capital that has been unleashed by the ICO boom, itself a creation of the crypto tech cycle.
Drinking From The Crypto Firehose – AVC
— Read on avc.com/2018/07/drinking-from-the-crypto-firehose/
Watching:
This is so good. Most of it totally applies still.
Something new in the travel space for Asia!
Travelstop: Business travel, expense reporting, and insights
Super cool program – nice work Alan!
Splice and Civil Media are starting a $1 million fund to help create 100 media startups in 3 years. We need your help.
— Read on www.thesplicenewsroom.com/splice-100/
When you’re self-funding a startup, you’re caught between two realities: you’re investing real time and money, but you’re not earning income from your SaaS.
— Read on justinjackson.ca/bootstrap-reality/
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