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Starting Up In Singapore (Part I) – Product/Market Fit

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Once the answer is found, the entrepreneur needs to do serious research on the market he/she will be addressing. Product/Market Fit. To me, the Market is the most important followed closely by the Team who can execute, navigate and conquer that market. Startups in this category start off in their home markets (i.e.

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Making Social Media Work For SMEs

YoungUpstarts

Reddington, president, FedEx Express Asia Pacific. In today’s super-connected, always-on era, businesses of almost any size can reach markets and customers beyond their borders with unprecedented ease. This was the experience of Herschel Supply Co., Remember, you’re the newbie!

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Does Your VC have an Investment Thesis, or a Hypothesis?

David Teten

(co-written with Stephane Nasser , co-founder of OpenVC , an open-source initiative to collect and analyze all VC theses.). OpenVC is a new, open-source initiative to collect and analyze all publicly available VC theses, to help founders more efficiently find the right investors, and vice-versa. of venture capital deals.

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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. During the course of the bootcamp you will be expect not just to build the product, but launch it, and keep iterating it in response to market feedback, in whatever direction maximizes growth. Some founders stay at hostels. Listen to what it tells you.

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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. “We think this is a greenfield market that presents enormous growth potential.&# GreenPost has big ambitions in Asia and the Pacific. The Journey.

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[Singapore][Event] Regional Startups Shine At JFDI-Innov8 2012 Bootcamp Demo Day

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Organized by technology startup accelerator Joyful Frog Digital Incubator – better known locally as JFDI Asia – the recent JFDI-Innov8 Bootcamp saw some 11 local and regional technology startups undergo a tough 100-day program that saw them attempt to turn a prospective idea into a potentially sustainable digital business.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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Loading… Markets. Loading… Market Data. Loading… Asia. Media & Marketing. Marketing & Strategy. Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., Mr. Dreymann moved his family from Israel in 2004 after co-founding Goodmail in Mountain View, Calif., WSJ Classroom.