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The iconic VC-Backed founders are all White & Asian men. So why invest in diversity?

David Teten

Of the 30 Asia-based founders, all were natives of the country in which they built their businesses: 23 Chinese, three Japanese, two Korean and two Indian. -based founders, 35 were white* American; four were white immigrant/first generation, from France, Ukraine, Russia and Iran; and four were Indian immigrant/first generation.

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Transformify Partners with Genashtim to Help Bridge the Skills Gap

Transformify

Genashtim Innovative Learning is the pioneer for eLearning in Asia, having started in 2004 with a globally recognized online MBA program from some of the top universities in the world. Since 2008, Genashtim became a partner of eCornell in Asia - the eLearning arm for Cornell University of Ithaca, New York.

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Managing Social Media With Fetch Plus

YoungUpstarts

Benitez has been involved in social media since 2004, and interestingly enough has met the famous Winklevoss twins, Tyler and Cameron, who are most famous for alleging that Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg stole their social networking idea from them. What Could Have Been. They are also looking to enter the hotel and hospitality industries.

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[Interview] Pekka Viljakainen, Author Of “No Fear: Business Leadership for the Digital Age” (Part I)

YoungUpstarts

In 2004-2005, I found out we were recruiting thousands of people I started to realize that many of these people who are coming in, those born after 1985 – they are behaving differently. But the capital of the world is going to be in Asia in the coming years. I hadn’t changed my leadership style, so what went wrong?

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[Singapore] Shopify Partners SingTel To Grow Presence In Singapore

YoungUpstarts

Tapping On The E-Commerce Explosion In Asia. “Shopify hasn’t really penetrated the market in Asia,” admits Harley Finkelstein, Shopify’s chief platform officer. Shopify itself was started as an online shop in 2004 selling snowboard equipment out of a garage by its founders.

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[Infographic] The State Of IT Security

YoungUpstarts

According to Verizon, who has been tracking how many data breaches occur in the United States since 2004, in 2011 there were a total of 855 incidents resulting in the second highest number of compromised records lost since they started tracking. You’d be surprised how bad IT security can get.

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4 Best Websites To Apply For Accelerators And Incubators

YoungUpstarts

Started in 2004, it has helped over 500,000 startup founders to receive seed money and has raised over $1 billion in investment capital for them. Europe, Asia and South America. It sorts the programs by type, location and also details the information of all the acceleration and incubation programs listed.

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