Article: What Happens At Y Combinator
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Sept 30: ‘The 5 P’s to Finding Capital and Attracting Investors to Your Business’ — Business Exchange Club
> Thursday 30th September > > > > Imagine where you could take your business with some extra investment. You could hire new sales staff, get an assistant, move into bigger and more prestigious premise...
Barcamp HK Saturday the 18th – Come out and learn about startups, community, culture, and technology
This year’s Barcamp is going to be huge. I mean literally twice the size of last year with more people, more space, and more free drinks. Come out and share something you are interested in, and find o...
Back to the Future – Learning from the last HK tech bubble
After Startup Saturday, I’ve had the opportunity to talk with a lot more of the people that were around for the frenzy of 2000-2001 for tech startups in Hong Kong. When a fund called TechPacific puts ...
New Trends In Startup Financing Explained For Laymen: MicroISV on a Shoestring
> New Trends In Startup Financing Explained For Laymen > > By Patrick on September 2, 2010 > > Noted American technology investor and all-around smart guy Paul Graham wrote recently about emerging tre...
The 5 biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make
via entrepreneur.venturebeat.com...
5 startup pitfalls to avoid, and how to position yourself against your competition
> Here’s the latest from VentureBeat’s Entrepreneur Corner:[](http://cdn.venturebeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/entrepreneur-corner.jpg) > > Using contractors? Lock down their work as your IP – Ow...
How Your Smartphone Will Transform Your Elevator Pitch
> Listening to good entrepreneurs make their pitch is great fun. How well, or poorly, they align their passion and persuasiveness to the product details reveals a lot. Are they pushing an idea or tell...
A VC: The Expanding Birthrate Of Web Startups
> There is a general consensus that web startups are being created at a faster rate than ever. The impact of accelerator programs like Y Combinator, Techstars, Seedcamp, and dozens more are one factor...
Y Combinator: Winter 2011 Funding
Wow. Another year already. We applied for Winter 2010 and the next Demo Day is less than two weeks away!Back then, doing the application itself already helped us. While you are at it, why not apply th...
Accelerate 2010 – September 22-23 in Singapore
Startup Saturday 2010 was great for the HK startup community, so what’s next? Well, if you are into web applications or mobile applications, you should consider Accelerate 2010 coming up on September ...
What ANY ASIAN Entrepreneur Should Learn From MakeMyTrip’s Rocket IPO
via techcrunch.com A few trips to India ago, I wrote a piece on Deep Kalra of MakeMyTrip.com, an Indian online travel company that I guessed would be the first big Indian ecommerce IPO. Yesterday, the...
Advanced Entrepreneurship: Your Every Move, Your Culture
> Culture. It’s subtle, it’s everywhere, and it can make or break you. Zefer Corp was an internet consulting start-up whose CEO, Tony Tjan (also an HBR.org blogger), deliberately created a culture of ...
What Types of People Raise Money for Web Startups?
via mashable.com...
Business Asia: Inside the Mind of a Risk Taker – WSJ.com
> Inside the Mind of a Risk Taker > > A new poll finds key differences between Indian and Chinese entrepreneurs. > > By RYAN STREETER > > The past few years have seen no shortage of commentary about t...
Y Combinator’s Paul Graham: Say goodbye to traditional venture rounds
via venturebeat.com Now, however, more venture rounds aren’t being led by a single investor, and they don’t have an official close date or amount, Graham said. There may be an official lead, but that’...
Paul Graham’s Checklist, Would You Make The Cut?
via techcrunch.com...
Asia’s Top 50 Mobile Application Contest
There is going to be a mobile focused conference coming up in Singapore in mid-September. In connection to this they are looking to find the top 50 Mobile Applications in Asia. Interested, read on for...
Want to Know How VC’s Calculate Valuation Differently from Founders? | Both Sides of the Table
> Want to Know How VC’s Calculate Valuation Differently from Founders? > > by Mark Suster on July 22, 2010 > > Back in 1999 when I first raised venture capital I had zero knowledge of what a fair term...
The New Deal – A Founding CEOs Value is Non Linear « Steve Blank
> It’s About Finding the Business ModelI’ll posit that both views are wrong. Lets start with what the real job of the founding CEO’s job is: to find a repeatable and scalable business model. The goal ...