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Impact in Early-Stage VCs: Amasia’s Impact Assessment Framework
Amasia is a single bottom-line investor. However, our investment theses—first global expansion and best practices and now climate and…
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Ramanan Raghavendran
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Jermayne Ong
In Our Hands: How We Got Here and How We Change
Part I: How We Got Here In 1905, Albert Einstein stated that the speed of light was fixed for all time and space. The equations of special relativity …
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Ramanan Raghavendran
Amasia: Investing to Make the World Safer
The text below is the overview section of a longer internal report that elaborates on our thesis statement from 2019. We’ve continued to tinker with it…
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Ramanan Raghavendran
On Bubbles in Venture Capital
We’ve been thinking about bubbles for a long time here at Amasia and recently Amasia Fellow Daniel Tan and I had the chance to get a bit more structured…
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Ramanan Raghavendran
Lessons From The Cleantech Debacle
The cleantech investment boom was the ur-wave of investing in climate and sustainability. It didn’t go well, to put it mildly. Amasia Fellow Daniel Tan…
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Ramanan Raghavendran
CQ: The Cultural Quotient and Getting Global
In May 2016, Amasia led the Series B in Skillshare, an online learning platform with a unique model: it was (and is) a truly open marketplace, allowing…
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Ramanan Raghavendran
Saying No
The VC business, for a fund manager, is an orgy of rejection. During the course of a year, we will touch 1,000 companies at Amasia; we'll invest in…
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Ramanan Raghavendran
Kahneman, Thinking, and Venture Capital
Over the past few weeks, I've been re-reading Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow. Kahneman's book is an outstanding source of intelligent advice…
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Ramanan Raghavendran
The Three Roles Of A Venture Capitalist
Over a 25-year career, I've had the good fortune of investing across a broad spectrum from seed-stage companies to leveraged buyouts. One of the reasons…
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Ramanan Raghavendran
Jeff Bezos, Amazon and Getting Global
In the winter of 1995 I cold-called Jeff Bezos. At the time I was an associate at General Atlantic, a growth-stage investor in software companies. I was…
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Ramanan Raghavendran
How to Be Paranoid in Five Easy Pieces
The recent passing of Andy Grove brought to mind the title of his most famous book: “Only the Paranoid Survive.” That title and his message are fitting…
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Ramanan Raghavendran
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