Ada yang menarik dari perkembangan Silicon Valley VC,mereka mulai merambah peluang hitek enterpreneurship di luar AS(baca: ASIA).Kabar sangat bagus sebenarnya buat mereka yang ingin develop world class product/startup di luar AS dengan maturity dan knowledge yg dimiliki SV VC ( seperti Web 2.0nya Bang Enda barangkali).
Ini trendnya dimulai dari investasi Skype dan Baidu.com (Web search engine China yang saya pernah cerita 2 bulan lalu). http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/13499339.htm ---cut--- Globalization is giving birth to more and more entrepreneurs from Bangalore, Shanghai and pretty much everywhere else worldwide. Consequently, other valley venture capital firms, like Mayfield and New Enterprise Associates, which are focusing primarily on China, are following DFJ's lead in thinking globally. ..... ---cut--- Tapi yang paling menarik dan **awesome** adalah paragrap dibawah dimana VCnya sendiri yang mengejar2 dan melobi birokrat karena melihat peluang SDM di 3rd world country (bayankan jika b. gates dan l. elison mengejar sby agar bisa invest di Indonesia). ---cut--- How serious is he? Draper flew to Ukraine to visit President Viktor Yushchenko and badgered him about the country's bureaucracy, which forced entrepreneurs wanting to start a new company to wait three years and get approval from 32 government functionaries. Yushchenko pledged he'd streamline the process to take five days and one bureaucrat. Pleased with the response, Draper set about raising about $80 million in one of the first VC funds in the Ukraine, expected to be announced next month. ---cut--- Ini sisanya bagaimana sejarahnya VCs SV merambah ke India,China dan Ukrainia ... wah!. ---cut--- But in 1999, London investor Asad Jamal arrived in Silicon Valley, arguing that advances in affordable communications and the unfolding Internet revolution made a global VC firm more feasible. He just needed a partner. ..... During those boom years, most VCs invested as though Silicon Valley was the center of the universe. Few thought investing in Asia or elsewhere was worth their time, especially when they were making so much money locally. Now the push is on globally. ---cut--- Carlos
