{"id":2834,"date":"2013-11-30T10:28:17","date_gmt":"2013-11-30T15:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=2834"},"modified":"2013-11-30T10:28:22","modified_gmt":"2013-11-30T15:28:22","slug":"the-rise-of-vc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2013\/11\/30\/the-rise-of-vc","title":{"rendered":"The rise of VC"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Via:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/management.fortune.cnn.com\/2013\/11\/21\/marc-andreessen\/\">Inside the mind of Marc Andreessen &#8211; Fortune Management<\/a>: <em>&#8220;I never heard the term &#8216;venture capital&#8217; until I got to California. I got a job and landed in Silicon Valley, and I found out about this venture capital thing. And I was dumbstruck. &#8216;You mean there are people who will give you money to invent new things and start a company? Really? Seriously? It&#8217;s like wow! That&#8217;s really cool!&#8217;\u00a0 And of course we got lucky.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/byte\/85842897\/\" title=\"Caught in the middle by byte, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/43\/85842897_696159051a_n.jpg?resize=320%2C213\" width=\"320\" height=\"213\" alt=\"Caught in the middle\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\"\/><\/a>That was 20 years ago. There was a lot less media coverage of VC, deals, angels, etc.<\/p>\n<p>What would be an interesting exercise is to see when VC firms in Asia started? Is it all pushed by the democratization of media?<\/p>\n<p>The fact that today, media is cheaper &#8211; everyone and his uncle has started a publication of some sort. In tech, it seems that most of the media will only cover VC-related stories (i.e. money driven). They&#8217;ve forgotten <em>real\u00a0<\/em>tech.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mavcap.com\/\">MAVCAP<\/a>, the largest VC fund in Malaysia, only started in 2001. A mere 12 years ago! Singapore&#8217;s first firm started in 1984 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Seavi_Advent\">Seavi Advent Private Equity<\/a>\u00a0(29 years ago) &#8211; though I&#8217;m not sure if they deal with tech much.<\/p>\n<p>So is this the rise of VC\/angels\/incubators\/etc. or the rise of media?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via:\u00a0Inside the mind of Marc Andreessen &#8211; Fortune Management: &#8220;I never heard the term &#8216;venture capital&#8217; until I got to California. I got a job and landed in Silicon Valley, and I found out about this venture capital thing. And I was dumbstruck. &#8216;You mean there are people who will give you money to invent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[25],"tags":[152,539,1621],"class_list":["post-2834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-media","tag-vc","tag-venture-capital"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-JI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2835,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2834\/revisions\/2835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}