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[Indonesia][Event] Startup Asia Jakarta 2012

YoungUpstarts

Earlier this year in February, the Startups in Asia conference in Singapore saw Singapore-based social collaborative learning platform Teamie emerging victorious from a pool of nineteen regional startups pitching in a ‘Startup Arena’ to win a US$10,000 prize.

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How to Use Frugal Innovation to Grow Your Startup

ReadWriteStart

It is true that founding a startup in times of crisis may look more challenging. However, a crisis can also be a golden opportunity to launch a new product or service, as long as the startup at the origin applies specific methods. It can help startups stretch their resources further and achieve a more significant impact.

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[Event] [Singapore] Mobile Flea Market App Snapsell Wins Startup Weekend Singapore 2012

YoungUpstarts

Startup Weekend Singapore 2012 participants. Although Startup Weekends isn’t new, this Singapore edition added two rounds of idea filtering to sift out better ideas from the less applicable ones.

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Startup Map & Trends Analysis – September 2012

Gust

September’s Startup Map showcases the latest trends in startup profiles created on Gust between September 1 st and September 30 th. Some of the entrepreneurs chose to keep their startup profiles private and therefore are labeled as unpublished in this month’s map, and were not included in the trends analysis.

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The New Startup: Legal Financing & Lawsuit Loans

YoungUpstarts

The practice of legal financing dates back to the early 1990s, but it didn’t take off in the United States until Credit Suisse Securities launched a litigation lending program in 2006 that later became its own company in 2012. This is the Best Time to Consider a Legal Financing Startup.

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Startup Lessons: 4 Companies Facing Product Lawsuits

The Startup Magazine

Whether a startup or established company, these guidelines will establish your business as a reputable, ethical company and help you build and maintain customer relations. Blitz USA had to file for bankruptcy in 2012 because it was unable to afford its product liability insurance.

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Will Your Startup Get Venture Capital or IPO in 2013?

Startup Professionals Musings

Based on the final report for 2012 from Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), it may appear that IPOs are back as a viable startup exit strategy. For the full year 2012, venture-backed initial public offerings raised $21.5