Blog Archives for the tag venture capital

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Is MaiTai the beginnings of a new TED?

TED started in 1984 to bring together people from three worlds: technology, entertainment and design when founder Richard Saul Wurman noticed a convergence between the two industries. It started organically and grew into the…

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Dana Mead From KPCB On Understanding Venture Capital

From time to time I come by videos of talks that VC’s or entrepreneurs have done, and they’re absolute boring snoozefests. Although, once in a while I find a true…

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Shanghai Startups too local

It has been widely reported this week that Tudou.com, one of China’s two largest video sharing sites has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission that it intends to launch…

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Girl 2.0 EXPO Showcases Female Startups

The Girl 2.0 Expo, held in Shanghai over the weekend and run by Girls in Tech China, pulled in some big name speakers like Dave McCLure, Venture Capitalist and founder…

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Open Network Lab helps Japanese startups go global.

Last night at the May Tokyo 2.0 event a presentation was given by Hiro Maeda about a new venture capital group called Open Network Lab. Open Network Lab was formed…

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Chinese government to set-up VCs with private investors

Despite recording significant growth, the Venture Capital industry in China is set to get a further boost thanks to a new plan announced by the Chinese Central government to channel…

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DFJ raising $400 Million for Startups in India

Draper Fisher Jurvetson, the venture capital firm which backed Skype, Feedburner, Overture, Baidu, and many such other startups which were later acquired by big Internet fishes is planning to raise…