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5 Mistakes We Made While Growing A Startup In Southeast Asia

YoungUpstarts

In March 2016, Rosanne Hortensius left the Netherlands to launch online couponing platform Saleduck in Southeast Asia. Upon realising this, it definitely helped to speed up the hiring process and we now work with a multicultural team of 14. Looking for talent in the wrong places. Being too direct during meetings.

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SXSW Startups: Pawame Powers Africa

Austin Startup

Our Chairman and co-founder Alex Allegue pitched Pawame in the global finals of last year’s Harvard Business School New Venture Competition, Pawame having already won the Africa category. Our CTO and Co-founder Majd Chaaya and colleague Hella Bennani are representing us there at the end of January. The founders?—?Alex

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15 Female Entrepreneurs Share What Changes They Would Most Like to See in Their Industry

Hearpreneur

As a female entrepreneur and cofounder of a business, I would like to see more investment into technology companies that support women, as most women make 80% of buying decisions. To me, 2016 is synonymous with a real tipping point for women in “corporate America” because the industry is finally taking notice of the glass ceiling.

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The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Software Company

Up and Running

“If you can fix a problem for someone and do it better, quicker, and/or cheaper than your competitor, you’re off to a good start.” – Gabriel Kuperman, founder and CEO of CuePin. We created UpKeep to fill this void—a cloud-based solution that was affordable for any size business.” – Ryan Chan, founder of UpKeep.

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

In 2016 alone, 300+ “machine intelligence” (AI + ML) startups in Europe raised over €1.4 Venture Capital investments in AI, Europe 2016 (Source: Dealroom ). Anodot (2014) – a real-time analytics and automated anomaly detection system that discovers outliers in vast amounts of data. Billion in VC funding.

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Tech Diversity & Inclusion Allies at SXSW

Austin Startup

Brunner (@heatherjbrunner) | Twitter Preston James Co-founder & CEO DivInc Preston is at the center of everything Diversity & Inclusion in Austin. An early Human Rights Campaign board member and longtime Austin LGBTQ leader, Eugene co-chaired President Obama’s & the DNC’s LGBTQ Leadership Council.