I mentioned this when Jon first announced it :: https://seedvc.blog/2018/09/03/12-startups-in-12-months-jon-yongfook/
#1 is out the door.
A Bitcoin Crime Fighter Becomes a Crypto Investor | Fortune
Quite a shift in careers:
Kathryn Haun made her name prosecuting Bitcoin crimes. As a partner at Andreessen Horowitz, she could reshape the cryptocurrency industry.
— Read on fortune.com/longform/crypto-vc-andreessen-horowitz-kathryn-haun/
China’s secret startup advantage: liquidity | TechCrunch
China’s secret startup advantage: liquidity | TechCrunch:
Faster liquidity can push cycle of returns, fundraising, reinvestment
This is the struggle with the SEA ecosystem. Just not enough liquidity yet to create the magical cycle.
USA and China have it. India with some of their monster exits creating some secondary action to enrich employees is crawling towards it.
As some of the big unicorns in SEA start to make some employees rich – there will be some mini cycles around that.
One should not knock what SEA and Razor of done to help get this going as well.
Professional Translation Services – Gengo
Have one of our portfolio companies using this. Pretty cool way to get your product UX into multi-language:
People-powered translation at scale. Gengo provides fast, affordable and quality translations by native speakers located worldwide.
— Read on gengo.com/
No Mercy / No Malice
Lots of predictions here:
Southeast Asia Could Hit $5 Trillion Growth Mark: McKinsey’s Lin – Bloomberg
Looking forward to this:
Southeast Asia’s been home to almost half of the biggest growth drivers in the past half-century. To keep investors interested, it’ll have to make the right moves across technology, education and infrastructure, according to Diaan-Yi Lin, a senior partner at McKinsey & Co.
5 Burgers in Bangkok Every Meat Lover Should Try
On my list.
Burgers: Although a simple premise, constructing a noteworthy burger is no easy feat. Here, we uncovered a few of Bangkok’s tastiest burgers…
— Read on guide.michelin.com/th/en/bangkok/dining-out/5-burgers-in-bangkok-every-meat-lover-should-try/news
Stripe in Singapore
Wrote about this yesterday :: https://seedvc.blog/2018/09/27/stripe-to-open-singapore-hub-following-245m-fundraise/
Saw this on LinkedIn today :: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6451084223817310208
1) Stripe’s fourth global engineering hub will be in Singapore
2) This hub will build completely new products, and further develop the underlying infrastructure powering Stripe
3) 200 million Southeast Asians will come online in the next two years
Gotta love those SEA stats but what really interests me is #2. New products.
People have been chatting about PayPal and Stripe competing but that has been going on for a while. What is more striking for me is where is Square when it comes to Asia? As of today – completely non-existent.
Second Seeds: The New Normal But Know This… – Hunter Walk – Medium
Good read for founders.
Especially the stuff around bridges.
Second Seeds: The New Normal But Know This… – Hunter Walk – Medium
Stripe to open Singapore hub following $245m fundraise
Stripe to open Singapore hub following $245m fundraise
From the Stripe Blog :: https://stripe.com/blog/singapore-eng-office
If this doesn’t put Singapore on the map in the global tech arena – then not much will.
Stripe is huge and they have chosen Singapore as an engineering hub.
This continues my hypothesis of why Singapore has already won the hub if SEA region and has vaulted past Hong Kong.
Why? Look at all the global companies with their hubs here and more and more will come and probably do more engineering than just sales and marketing.
Singapore is safe, fair, family friendly and the government is pro tech.
This also helps bolster one the trends I am have been trading on – the TTS. Trailing Tech Spouse.
Companies like Google, FB, AirBnB and now Stripe – move executives to Singapore and with them comes their spouse who often is also in tech. Thus bringing more experiences talent to the region but primarily Singapore.
Super exciting.
Also:
Dreampipe's Blog 