Thomas D. Nastas

Financing the Venture Capital Ecosystem—Day #1 in Lima, Peru

Entrepreneurs and investors speak about the need and urgency to increase investment and Scale Up start-up communities in their countries. Yet when it's time to invest capital, the culture of risk impedes the flow of money from the wallets of local investors into the pockets of entrepreneurs.

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Scaling Up Investment—Finance the Startup of Start-up Communities

Entrepreneurs raising money too often attempt to shape investor risk behavior to their investment opportunity. Instead, shape your business model to match the needs of not only your customers but investors too.

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The Quest for Growth—the Startup of Start-up Communities

Brazil and China like Russia are large population countries with a growing middle class that is ripe for more consumer-facing clones, clonentrepreneurs and Clonentrepreneurship.

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The Cultures of Risk—Financing the Startup of Start-up Communities

This part discusses the culture of risk in the developing countries and how it impacts the behavior of local investors and their willingness to finance seed and early stage tech business models.

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The Start-up of Russia. The Startup of Start-up Communities: The Power of Clones in Russia and beyond

2010 was a 'tipping point' for the start-up of Russia through two liquidity events and underlying forces in the country. First was the acquisition of the Russian Groupon clone called Darberry by Groupon.

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The startup of start-up communities—the power of clones in Russia and beyond

What are the elements of a start-up community? What can you do to startup a start-up community in your city, or help it do more-faster?

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