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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

Both Sides of the Table

Lately I’ve been having to say things I thought I’d never have to remind people, like, “getting to positive gross margin in several territories is a very low bar to claim success” or “profitable excluding marketing costs” is not actually a real thing. Market Size. MakeSpace provides physical storage.

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[Singapore] Daylight Studios To Tap Growing Mobile Games Market With Two New Titles

YoungUpstarts

Likely encouraged by various government schemes to grow the games and animation sector , the Singapore video games industry in recent years have expanded rapidly, growing from $87 million in 2005 to $285 million in 2007. Specifically for the mobile games, worldwide revenue is forecasted to surge from US$13.2 billion to US$22 billion. .

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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. “So, in 2005, we launched our very own platform. In the News Asia e-commerce online commerce Shopify Singapore SingTel'

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The Next 10 Years Of Infocomm Technology

YoungUpstarts

Over the next few decades, this young cohort would comprise a rising proportion of citizens in Asia (31%-40% in Singapore, Korea, Hong Kong and Japan, and more than 51% in Malaysia, Philippines, India and Indonesia). billion) in 2005. 2000 to 2005: CRM, SFA, ERP, Payroll, Analytics, etc. Macro Trend 2: Urbanization.

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Interview with Jesse Katz, Founder of EF Buys

Growthink Blog

In 2009 I spent 10 months volunteering and traveling in South East Asia, India and Nepal. In 2005 I had a similar 6 month trip. I think a lot of the onus is on the restaurant because they are looking at Groupon as a godsend, instead of as marketing, which implies some risk.

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21 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Like many surprise entrepreneurs, I had struck upon a market that hadn’t been previously acknowledged–coupons. Gaining valuable skills such as sales and marketing can be applied to every single business and leveraged to build your own. 7- Solve marketing problems. Thanks to Liat Tzoubari, Sevensmith ! #7-

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Inspiring Entrepreneurs: Ted Livingston’s rollercoaster ride as CEO of hit messaging startup Kik

The Next Web

Kik, for those of you who don’t know of it, has its core user base in the US, and markets itself as a universal messaging service that doesn’t require a phone number for registration. I went to university in Waterloo in 2005 for engineering. Based on that we came to control the entire messaging market for under-18s.”.