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[Singapore][Competition] Rakuten Startup Challenge

YoungUpstarts

This challenge comes after the Internet giant set up its Asia-Pacific business headquarters in Singapore last year. It also recently announced a US$10 million ‘Rakuten Asia Startup Fund’ in April earlier this year, signalling its recognition in Asia’s potential booming e-commerce market even as it seeks to expand its operations outside Japan.

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[Interview] Rajbir Singh Chopra, CEO of Weston Corporation

YoungUpstarts

The past year has seen exciting growth for online and mobile commerce in Asia , and that trend looks set to continue all the way through 2012 into 2013. How do you decide which sports fashion trends to follow when it comes to curating the products? E-tailing is generally more difficult for companies in Asia.

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TheLuxeNomad.com Pivots Business Model, Moves Away From Flash Sales

YoungUpstarts

. “The online magazine is a good way to break up the monotony of e-commerce with alluring and visually captivating content from our celebrity nomads and team of curators. That pivot may have changed TheLuxeNomad ‘s fortunes - it has tripled its revenues in the short period of June to December 2013.

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500 Startups unveils its Fall 2012 accelerator lineup: More international and more sh*t founders say

The Next Web

Club W: service that provides curated, personalized wine subscription. WhoAPI: service designed to deliver “extensive information about domain data” All 33 of these companies will be participating in one of the three 500 Startups Demo Days taking place in February 2013 (Mountain View, San Francisco, and New York City).

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Out of the Crisis #27: Eren Bali of Carbon Health on public health, COVID vaccinations, and working as a unified society to solve problems

Startup Lessons Learned

And I actually made a sketch back in 2013, I think, so three years before I started a Carbon. And honestly, when people look at the response in Asia that's one of the differences. This raises the question: how did Eren go from building apps on top of Facebook to ensuring that hundreds of thousands of Americans got their vaccines?