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ATP Stories: Ramesh V.Raghavan – Startup Investor and Advisor
Category: Business
Duration: 00:50:44
Publish Date: 2018-03-14 19:00:00
Description:

Podcast highlights:

  • 18:45 Cultural differences between South East Asian and Israeli startups; being outcome versus process driven, barriers in communication and having different approaches to problem solving
  • 27:25 The inherent challenge of the South East Asian corporate innovation space compared to more developed countries; South East Asian corporates want to protect their margins by 'milking the cash cow'
  • 33:34 Does the top down approach to start-ups and wealth creation in South East Asia build sustainable ecosystems, compared to SF or Israel?

Podcast notes:

  • 00:05 Welcome Ramesh Raghavan to ATP Stories with Graham Brown
  • 00:50 A little bit of background about Ramesh starting out as an agricultural commodity trader
  • 05:17 How did Ramesh's engineering training fit in with his work in the commodity business
  • 08:40 The move from commodity trading to the financial service industry
  • 11:30 Going to Hong Kong in December 1997 and his career in Morgan Stanley
  • 14:23 Getting involved in the venture capital start up stage in Asia in 2012
  • 14:48 Ramesh's trip to Israel to understand the success of Israel and bring back lessons from Israel to Asia
  • 16:20 Hosting the first Israeli conference in Singapore with 15 AI, big data technology, analytics, e-commerce space companies from Israel
  • 18:45 Cultural differences between Asian and Israeli startups; being outcome versus process driven, barriers in communication and different approaches to problem solving
  • 23:10 South East Asia as an agglomoration of different Chinas, a 'Greater Bay' of different countries instead of different regions. A wide variety in demographic profiles is the biggest advantage of South East Asia with big opportunities for frugal innovations.
  • 27:25 The inherent challenge of the South East Asian corporate innovation space compared to more developed countries; South East Asian corporates want to protect their margins by 'milking the cash cow'
  • 31:07 Wealth creation in South East Asia is changing from real estate to new technologies brought in by the younger generation, the real estate kids
  • 33:34 Does the top down approach to start-ups and wealth creation in South East Asia build sustainable ecosystems, compared to SF or Israel?
  • 37:10 Talented Singaporean graduates should leave to other more risk friendly South East Asian countries where there are bigger problems to be solved
  • 40:26 Can entrepreneurship in Singapore be taught, when there isn't a 'hunger' to fix things?
  • 43:45 Parallels between long term travel and entrepreneurship, from being an outsider in an unfamiliar environment to having faith that things will work out in the end
  • 45:00 Three things in common between successful start up founders: an interest in reading fiction, an interest in multi player gaming and being an immigrant
  • 47:45 The mindset shift when becoming an entrepreneur and having to do it all yourself
  • 50:00 Find out more about Ramesh on LinkedIn
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