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Founded in 2007, e27 is a media organization focused on the Asian technology startup industry. We believe in building the community of technology innovators across Asia by reporting on the latest, breaking news relevant to technology startups, technology companies as well as investors on the e27 blog while keeping keeping our ears to the ground by connecting with our readers on Facebook and Twitter. To further champion the Asian technology ecosystem, e27 combines its online reporting with numerous offline events that aim to inspire and connect the many people that work hard to put Asia on the global map of technology innovation.
Star Publications, a media company in Malaysia which also runs Star Publications, has just launched a MYD 20 million (US$6.59 million) fund to invest in Malaysian startups. The fund, called The Star Accelerator Fund is offered in two forms: pre-seed fund and the seed fund. The pre-seed fund provides each applicant with up to MYR 300,000 (US$98,800) while the seed fund offers support of up to MYR 1 million (US$329,000) per applicant. The decision on which fund to apply for ...
How did you find your startup idea?
For those of us evolving in the start-up ecosystem, it is not uncommon to spend sleepless nights trying to find the right product idea that will find or create it’s own market in the so-called product-market fit.
There are tons of literature and excellent books on that topic, such as Eric Ries’ Lean Startup or The Art of the Start by Guy Kawasaki. All offers valuable advices on starting and managing a startup from idea ...
Three months. 75 investors. US$650,000 raised. My company, Love With Food, graduated from 500 Startups' accelerator program about a year ago and we raised US$650 000 in June of 2012. It was three painful months of fundraising. If you think fundraising was a piece of cake just because we were a 500 alum, think again.
When I first began fundraising, all I heard was words of discouragement. Most told me the food space is hard and being a solo founder makes ...
A lot of very very smart, experienced investors have put several “must read” guides out there over the last few years on how to get their attention. If you’ve read these before, consider this a reminder. If you haven’t read these guides before, then consider this a starting point. This post should not be seen as a comprehensive list. It’s more of a response to various pitches I’ve been getting from multiple sources.
“Understand the investor’s mandate, fund size, investment reqs. ...
Many businesses, from small startups to multinational giants, struggle to match the right person with the right position. Getting it wrong can have disastrous effects on company culture and in most cases, has a negative impact on your bottom-line. While all hires are important, the higher up the chain you go, the more important it is to get it right.
And when you get it wrong, it can be disastrous – especially when the bad hire was the guy your board ...
"The growth hacker is the new VP of Marketing. Growth hackers are a hybrid of marketer and coder, one who looks at the traditional question of ‘How do I get customers for my product’ and answers with A/B tests, landing pages, viral factor, email deliverability, and Open Graph. On top of this, they layer the discipline of direct marketing, with its emphasis on quantitative measurement, scenario modelling via spreadsheets, and a lot of database queries. If a startup is a ...
The Obama administration is making a push for the 'startup visa' that will encourage foreign nationals with advanced tech degrees to stay in the US to start up enterprises.
Two things attract entrepreneurs, and this type of individual would usually flock to where these two things are: money and a market. It would make little sense to start up a business if you don’t have a market in mind, and it would not be viable if there would be no economic returns ...
It’s all over the news now. San Franscisco-based food photo sharing app Foodspotting has been acquired by OpenTable to the tune of US$10-million.
But is a US$10-million exit attractive?
Prior to the acquisition, Foodspotting raised a US$750,000 seed round from investors, which include 500Startups, as well as a few other angel investors including Dave Morin and Dan Martell back in August 2010. In January 2011, Foodspotting closed a US$3-million funding round from Blue Run Ventures.
Fast forward to January 2013, is the US$10 million an attractive ...
It was a day packed with over five consecutive meetings. As I huffed and puffed towards my final destination, meeting up with the private banker of a tech entrepreneur whose achievement badges include his NASDAQ-listed gaming company. It would be a typical investment pitch, like millions of other pitches I had done. The only difference was pitching to a private banker -- a career I was going into until I got mesmerized by the tech world. Let’s call him Paul.
Paul was sharp, ...
