Connect via Interviews

charlie-rose-logoA great way to get in contact with people is by asking them for an interview. Who doesn’t like getting interviewed? Makes you feel important, valued, and you think you are in the limelight.

I recently got interviewed by the Pakistani Spectator. They are running a series of interviews with various bloggers which you can find here.

Good approach to connect with other bloggers. Or customers. Or connectors. Or anybody that you care to get to know. Also great for the Google juice due to all the back links that you will get from the interviewed bloggers. 🙂

And once you have worked your way up, you might even get to interview some of the heavy hitters.

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Dow Jones < NASDAQ < China

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Fred Wilson has an interesting article here, where he shows this picture:

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His conclusion is the the DOW is the ‘old’ companies and that the NASDAQ representing ‘new’ companies will always outperform the DOW. I think he is right.

But he is not taking his thinking far enough. The ‘new’ companies these days are not in the US. They are in China. Drawing a similar graph as above, but including a NYSE listed ETF (NYSE:FXI) tracking Chinese companies shows you how much better they perform:

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In the year to date, the DOW is down 8.5%, the NASDAQ is up 3.2% and the FXI is up 13.8%. This results is consistent over different periods of time. It means that NASDAQ is growing faster than the DOW and that FXI is growing faster than NASDAQ.

The principle is correct. Young, hungry companies are growing faster than older, more established companies. And China has a lot of young, hungry, fast growing companies.

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List of VC Funds

list-of-vc-fundsFor several years, I have been building a personal, private list of venture capital funds that invest in the UK technology space. Please note that this is a list of active VC funds, sorted by vintage date, not of VC firms. My private list dates back to 2000 and has over 300 funds on it.

Recently, I started recording all this information in an easy to use online database. The database lists all VC funds relevant to the UK market that have been launched since March 2007 (that I can find/know of). It can be found here. I haven’t had the time to backfill all funds launched since 2000, but it is a start:

http://creator.zoho.com/jenslapinski/list-of-vc-funds#

I think this could be very useful to all entrepreneurs raising capital. If you help me build the list, then I think this could become a great tool for the community. Enjoy.

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