8 Myths about Startups and Venture Capital in Asia

Do you know much about venture capital in Asia?

This is a quick presentation I churned out the night before the Premoney Asia conference we organised with 500Startups on myths on startups and venture capital in South East Asia.

People seem to have a lot of preconceptions about the opportunity in Asia, in particular South East Asia. I wanted to touch on some of the obvious ones we hear.

There are a lot of challenges in South East Asia, don’t get me wrong, but the opportunity is commensurately larger.

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