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Making Social Media Work For SMEs

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Reddington, president, FedEx Express Asia Pacific. For many SMEs, the rapid growth of cross-border e-commerce – tipped to be worth US$2 trillion this year in the B2C space alone [1] – makes the opportunity too valuable to ignore. This was the experience of Herschel Supply Co., Remember, you’re the newbie!

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GreenPost – Because Bills Should Be Green

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“There had to be a scalable and smarter way for people to handle and pay their bills, especially helping them to stop their paper bills, says co-founder Narulla. It launched a beta in September 2009, which was successfully completed in February 2010. GreenPost has big ambitions in Asia and the Pacific. The Journey.

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JFDI.Asia Accelerator: Bootcamp Practicalities

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by Meng Weng Wong, co-founder and social engineer at JFDI Asia. Because we’ve learned the hard way that $100,000, which is six months of runway in Silicon Valley, is a retirement jackpot in half of Southeast Asia. Some founders stay at hostels. JFDI offers co-working too so if you want to stay on campus, you can.

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