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:

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