Yan Lee, the Founder and Managing Partner at Hive Ventures joined the Asia Tech Podcast for a wide-ranging conversation about the startup ecosystem in Taiwan and Southeast Asia.

Some of the topics that Yan and I discussed:

The listing of ICLK in Nasdaq and all of its associated issues
Taiwan and Hong Kong's first home-grown software startup to be listed on Nasdaq
The importance of having a strong management team
How every startup is different
Making the move into venture capital
Similarities between parenting and early-stage VC investing
How the structure of Taiwan's economy impacts its VC landscape
Data, Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise Software, and Automation
How Taiwan's startups create their edge
How to combat investment myopia
Working with a lot of other funds

Other titles we considered for this episode:

Almost Going Bankrupt 18 Times
You Don't Learn This Stuff in MBA
That's the Fire You Wanna Light
There Are Probably a Million One Ways to Fail
Everyone Is Looking to Plug Something Into Their Ecosystem
It's So Culturally Nuanced
We no Longer Live In a Silo

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