Backing The Bold A Primer On Early Stage Venture Capital In Southeast Asia

Backing the Bold is a primer on the venture capital industry, business, and profession in Southeast Asia. The goal of the book's thirteen chapters has initially been to guide students of the Insignia Ventures Academy — Asia's first experiential venture capital accelerator — in their exploration of the venture capital industry and profession, specifically in the context of Southeast Asia's startup ecosystem and from the perspective of Insignia Ventures and its portfolio founders.Rather than being a book in the traditional sense of the word, such an origin and context for Backing the Bold has inevitably made this book a dynamic piece of literature, continuously growing and improving thanks to every new group of people who become part of the VC accelerator — as organizers, mentors, or participants.Now in print and in distribution, this first edition is available for all as a snapshot of Backing the Bold's progress as a continuously evolving repository of insights, best practices, and frameworks. It is for readers of any background or motivation to gain a better understanding of the venture capital investment process, portfolio management, and profession in the context of Southeast Asia's fast-growing technology markets.

This book is one of the first to analyze the development of private equity, to include venture capital and business angel investing in emerging Southeast Asian economies of Thailand, Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, and China. The author analyzes the investment strategies of both types of private equity investors who face significant challenges when investing in emerging economies lacking the legal and financial institutions needed to support effective private equity investing. With the author’s detailed field research in Southeast Asia, as well as recent private equity research in China, you’ll learn about investment strategies (whether you’re a venture capitalist or business angel) in emerging markets. This investment strategy is based on significant networking that is used to build social capital, in-depth due diligence, and hands-on post-investment monitoring.

Venture capital firms (VC) have encountered with uncertainty and risk of asymmetric information due to an investment in early-to-growth stage and technology-based start-ups. Venture capital syndication network helps reduce a broad gap of information asymmetry and agency problem in a venture capital investment. Although agency and asymmetric information theory help motivate the formation of networks in emerging venture capital markets, Institutional theory is more suitable in explaining this situation, as the practice of venture capital appears to be influenced from institutional changes. As network connections are found to be the success factor for venture capitalists under a lack of fully developed institutional environment in emerging market. Venture capital industry in Southeast Asia is nascent yet in demanding and fast growing. Southeast Asia (SEA) is one of the most significant and dynamic propellers of the world economy. To clarify the role of networks and institutions on VC-backed firms in SEA VC market, we then investigate the relationship between networks and institutions and their impact on portfolio company's performance. Our study will initiate an empirical evidence by quantifying VC networks and institutions among SEA countries and implementing time-series panel regressions through the performance of VC-backed companies.

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This book explores the domain of innovation and entrepreneurship in India. It aims to provide each and every individual who picks up the book with a learning experience which shares the different kinds of innovation which have helped Indian thought leaders provide considerable value-add to the world over the years, as also how one think of innovating in India as an upcoming business leader and entrepreneur. The book not only aims to inspire innovative minds, young and old alike, but it also intends to provide some basic guidelines which will help more and more individuals on the lines of innovation and entrepreneurship. The book includes insights and inputs from over 35 Indian entrepreneurs, innovators, thought leaders and upcoming young businessmen, including Dr. R A Mashelkar, NR Narayana Murthy, Nandan Nilekani, Swati Piramal, R. Gopalakrishnan, Dr. Anil Gupta, Phanindra Sama, Sanjiv Rai, Anuradha Acharya amongst others were diligently accumulated and analyzed over a period of 12 months of the course of writing the book. In this book, thought leaders have shared candid accounts of situations which challenged them over the course of their journey, and how they overcame the same.

By examining the current status and recent developments in a number of countries in Asia, this book makes recommendations, provides analysis, and suggests new approaches to startup angel financing in the Asia Pacific region.