The Evolving Role Of Crypto Investors – Multicoin Capital
Still digesting.
Initiative Q
I am not sure this will work but I think it is a novel approach. Join if you want. Or not.
Initiative Q is building a new payment network. To get people to adopt it, they’re giving away significant sums of their future currency to early people. They require only name, email, and an invite from an existing user. Here’s my invite link:
EngageRocket aims to help HR departments make data-informed decisions
Rise of the Global Startup City
Super cool report out about global startup cities :: Rise of the Global Startup City
The entire PDF can be found here :: http://startupsusa.org/global-startup-cities/report.pdf
Some snapshots I find interesting.
Top 10:
The cities with the most growth – wow Bangkok but SEA cities get 3 out of the top 10:
This next one I really love which shows which cities have the most investment per capita. Which means when you think about the reverse of this just note that when people talk about SEA region being frothy or too much capital the actual truth it is that it is just getting started and there is not enough capital to cover the future given the amount invested per capita:
Gonna dig in some more to read the full report.
Should probably end with this one:
Go Singapore!
This is cool – Dyson to manufacture electric cars in Singapore:
Tech Founders’ Absolute Power Is Destroying Company Culture | WIRED
Good read. Complicated subject since anytime a VC wanna governance it is usually taken to mean not founder friendly these days.
Tough one. I think we have to start aligning around “company friendly” which means governance since the board and the VC are there to protect the company.
Tech Founders’ Absolute Power Is Destroying Company Culture | WIRED
Who Are My Investors? – AVC
Hope more folks than Fred start beating this drum.
Seems most folks have lost track of what KYC actually means these days.
Bloomberg w/Amit Anand
Cool to hear Amit on the radio:
Amit Anand, Managing Partner/Co-Founder, Jungle Ventures, joined Rishaad Salamat and Bryan Curtis on Daybreak Asia to discuss investment opportunities in South East Asia. He looks into the explosion in internet users across the region, how start-ups are taking advantage of that and some of the most interesting companies he has invested in.
— Read on www.bloomberg.com/
Blitzscaling: Book Trailer
Still trying to wrap my head around this concept.
I might read the book but this deck is a good place to start.
Asia’s Technology Bear Isn’t Ready to Hibernate – Bloomberg
Add the Saudi mess in and the vision fund and strategy looks flawed:
As interest rates rise, the venture-capital model pioneered by SoftBank and followed by the likes of Tencent is breaking down.
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