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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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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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Loading… Asia. Media & Marketing. Media Agencies. His findings are based on data from more than 2,000 companies that received venture funding, generally at least $1 million, from 2004 through 2010. Mr. Dreymann moved his family from Israel in 2004 after co-founding Goodmail in Mountain View, Calif.,

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Why You Must Change Your Content Marketing Approach

Duct Tape Marketing

I produced my first eBook in 2004 or so and now feature ten, including some I’ve licensed from other writers. Social media has obviously opened new doors in terms of sharing and generating new forms of content. Social Media Examiner. Social Media Examiner. Cindy King. Director of Editorial. Shelly Kramer.

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Y Combinator's First Batch: Where Are They Now?

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Were hiring. Social Media. That idea became ClickFacts, a malware solutions company for buyers and sellers of online media to identify and combat “click fraud”. Chris had been working on creating a better desktop search since early 2004, knowing that no existing solutions were any good. The Next Web. TNW Conference.

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Boom and Bust and What Comes Next

Scalable Startup

While the global financial crash of 2008 and the resulting Great Recession initially slowed job growth in Silicon Valley, the meteoric rise of smart phones and social media helped the tech industry as a whole to power ahead despite the near collapse of the global economy. This is The City’s siren song, born in the days of the Gold Rush.