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One of the biggest challenges among first-time founders is putting together their first priced fundraising round. In markets like Taiwan and Southeast Asia, the venture ecosystem is still relatively young, leaving several misconceptions around deal-making among entrepreneurs and investors alike. Some first-time founders, especially those from blue-chip backgrounds or elite pedigrees, may treat the deal process as a competition driven by game theory, where there must be a winner and a loser. From my experience, however, treating discussions with investors as a win-lose proposition only leads to mutually-assured failure. Everyone should leave their egos at the door. What’s at stake...

Lessons From the Front Lines Perhaps you read last week that David Berkovitz, a Professor at Chapman University in Orange, California, is suing his own students after he discovered that his midterm and final exams had been uploaded to a popular website. Berkovitz, who teaches business law at Chapman University, filed a lawsuit against an unnamed group of his students — identified only as “Does” — after he discovered in January that the midterm and final exams he had given in the spring of 2021 had been uploaded to a popular website that students use to share lecture notes, sample...

Jackson looked a spitting image of his late father with his long blond hair and tailored black suit as he clutched a golf club and ushered his sisters into the car.

By The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The math of military conquests and occupation may be against Russian President Vladimir Putin in Ukraine. Estimates of Russian deaths vary widely. Yet even conservative figures are in the low thousands. That’s a much faster pace than in previous Russian offensives, threatening support for the war among ordinary Russians. Russia had 64 deaths in five days of fighting during its 2008 war with Georgia. It lost about 15,000 in Afghanistan over 10 years, and more than 11,000 over years of fighting in Chechnya. Russia’s number of dead and wounded in Ukraine is nearing...

My Latest Snags: New Shoes for Mini and Micro. Well, spring is just about here. My daughter traipsed around in a strange mismatched outfit the first day it hit 70 this week — striped Petit Bateau tee, differently striped Classic Prep shorts, and pink sandals too small for her feet — and I realized I needed to place some orders. I bought micro these sage green Vejas, as a lot of his wardrobe is skewing that way thanks to Minnow’s darling clothing options. He also has these slip-on plimsolls in the canvas/white color for slightly dressier occasions, and I’m going...