Venture Capital in Asia

Preface

This book is about venture capital and business angel investing in emerging Asia. I have been studying the development of these two types of private equity investors since 1987 when I took my first trip to Asia as a visiting lecturer for one academic year at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. It was in Hong Kong where I was introduced to both Asian and Western venture capitalists who were beginning to do deals in Southeast Asia and China and I began to interview them. Later, I was privileged to be a visiting professor at National Economics University of Vietnam in Hanoi (1994, 1998, and 2009) and the Asian Institute of Management in Manila, Philippines (2009). These opportunities allowed me to work with local collaborators to expand ...