新风投基金模式:与创业者分享利润 In July, the announcing of a new fund named Upside may inject some fresh blood to the old venture capital model. Kent Goldman, a former partner at First Round Capital who left this year to start a new venture capital fund, Upside Partnership, says in an interview that “it’s a new type of partnership and something that I don’t think ever has been tried in venture capital before.” Read More »
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HK Private Equity Firm to Launch China’s First Ultra-Long Fund
香港私募股权启投中国第一支超长期基金 According to Reuters, Hong Kong-based Capital Today which has made huge profits off investments in China's technology sector is launching a fund unprecedented in the country for its ultra-long horizon. Read More »
Deciphering The Economics Of Venture Capital
解密风险投资经济学 Black swan events were introduced by Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his 2001 book Fooled By Randomness, which concerned financial events. He outlined three characteristics of a black swan event: Read More »
Are We in a Tech Bubble?
我们是否进入了科技泡沫时代? Although dot com bubble still haunts people, we are already setting our steps into another bubble: tech bubble, aren't we? Read More »
When Venture Capital Met Big Data
当风险投资与大数据相遇 "Big data" was one of the hottest topics in 2013. According to CB Insights, from Hadoop distributors to text mining platforms, private Big Data companies raised $1.28B across 127 deals in the first half of 2013. With an average of over $210M in funding and more than 20 financing deals per month, industry pundits will have some credibility when they inevitably describe 2013 as the “year of Big Data”. Read More »
Coller Institute of Venture at Tel Aviv University