Delay in Crowdfunding Rules Hurts Foreign Entrepreneurs (OpEd)

Quang Mai Duy, the dynamic CEO of the Vietnamese start-up company Biaki, has a problem.

Despite Biaki’s initial progress in developing its CRM software solution for the Vietnamese market, Quang is having a hard time raising capital in Vietnam. Angel investing outside of the family is almost non-existent in Vietnam and there are relatively few venture capital funds in the market that would consider an investment in Biaki.

Contrast that with the U.S., where there has been a rise in the availability of early-stage capital for American entrepreneurs from angel investors, accelerators and crowdfunding sites. But unfortunately for international entrepreneurs such as Quang, this capital is not flowing from U.S. investors into emerging markets such as Vietnam that have plenty of room for growth.

Read more at Terra.com



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