Prathaban V
Malaysian Business
02-24-2004
URL: http://www.emedia.com.my/
`I think it is much easier to be a technopreneur than a venture
capitalist,' says Sivapalan Vivekarajah as he sipped his Jasmine tea in
a cosy watering hole in Bangsar, Kuala Lumpur. `Venture capitalists are
answerable to the investors, unlike the technopreneurs who either make
or break by their own doing.' Those `salutary' comments by Sivapalan, when
I asked him whether his opinion on venture capitalists (VCs) has changed
since undertaking a doctoral study on venture funds, shocked me. The Sivapalan
I knew as the former president of the Technopreneurs Association of Malaysia
(TeAM) would never have made such statements. I ...

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