The Salesforce corporate development probably had a bad day… If you were in the boots of Salesforce, how would you sustain your growth? Probably acquire, given their core market has saturated. So what companies are on the wish list of Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff? Fortunately for us a group called“hacktivists” hacked and leaked emails from former Secretary of State Colin Powell …
e-conomy: Unlocking the $200 billion digital opportunity in Southeast Asia
Google and Temasek joined forces to put together a great 34 page deck, researching the startup and venture capital digital opportunity in Southeast Asia. There’s some great insight. Unlocking the $200 billion digital opportunity in Southeast Asia Looking for something interesting to read? The real reason founders aren’t funded you will never hear a VC say This is how to …
Venture Capital Disrupts Itself: Breaking the Concentration Curse – Cambridge Associates
It used to be the case that the big VCs made all the returns and because of this ostensible fact, were able to charge ‘premium fees’ of 2.5-3% and be highly selective in whom they allow to be their LPs. This is a notion I am sure is perpetuated for obvious reasons, only now, it doesn’t seem entirely accurate. Something that …
Startup trends for death and stats on survival rates
TL:DR: An analysis of startup trends and how startups survive over time CBInsights have an interesting post on startup survival, in which they report on their analysis of startups that entered the deadpool between 2010 and 2013 to see what they could uncover about startup survival and mortality. It’s important to note though that this is reported dead. There are a lot of …
The Venture Capital Opportunity in South East Asia
This is a presentation I gave for Tedx at Affin Hwang Capital’s ‘Conference Series 2015: Navigating Through Turbulent Times’ on the topic of “The Venture Capital Opportunity in South East Asia.” It was subsequently a featured presentation on the homepage of Slideshare and was one of the most viewed presentations of the month with 77,000 views in a month. It was …
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