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Entries Tagged ‘VCs’

PASHA Launchpad: A great place to pitch your business ideas and get funded!


I must say, a lot of interesting tech events and forums have been arranged recently. First the Blog Awards, then TEDx Karachi, which by the way deserves another post altogether. Now, Jehan Ara, President of PASHA (Pakistan Software Houses Association) has announced that her organization will be starting a series of events appropriately called “Launchpad”. [...]

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Information Technology Venture Capital is Dead – Part I


Accuse me all you want for having an alarming title like the above, but I’m sticking to my guns. A lot is wrong with the venture model in general, but the malaise that has afflicted IT VC has reached an incurable situation. I’ll summarize what I see happening and then explain it all a little [...]

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Dot-Bust 2.0: how will it play out this time?


The craziness is beginning to scare me just a little now. News.com reports on how insane the new outflow of VC money in the valley really is. When it gets to the point where VCs fund companies that should find it hard to even convince themselves of the value they bring to the market, you’d [...]

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