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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 17 – Organizational Design – Safi Bahcall

Steve Blank

Does the story of a superpower ignoring distant threats from seemingly weak competitors sound familiar from the class discussions on China? They need to understand product market fit: why some ideas will get traction, others won’t. and China in the near, mid, and long-term time frames. Little competitors that IBM disregarded.

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[Review] Startup Asia

YoungUpstarts

Asia – especially in countries such as India, China, Vietnam – is fast becoming the place where many entrepreneurs, whether locally born or lured back from Silicon Valley, are setting up shop. The second part covers the various sectors that have seen the biggest growth in Asia.

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[Asia] Getting Cloud Computing Right The First Time

YoungUpstarts

by Yi Ning Lim, marketing specialist at GMO GlobalSign. This is the second part of a two-part series covering the 2nd Annual Cloud Computing World Forum – Asia edition which was just concluded at The Mira, Hong Kong on 30 th Nov and 1 st Dec. The Sleeping Dragon Awakes in China. Everyone’s Joining the Cloud Party In Asia.

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Southeast Asia Startup Ecosystem Continues to Prosper Post-Pandemic

ReadWriteStart

Southeast Asia is one of them. Southeast Asia was walloped by Covid-19. million people into extreme poverty across Southeast Asia and removed 9.3 If you leave aside the devastating impacts of Covid-19 on the economy and people, this pandemic was able to change the prospects of startups in Southeast Asia. billion in 2018.

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Ready to expand your startup into Asia? Read this

The Next Web

The company is one of the largest VC–backed startups in Southeast Asia, having raised over $60 million in funding. . This is the first of a four-part series that will provide insight into starting, building, and funding a company across Asia. Prioritize the markets. It’s wise to first broadly prioritize the top markets (i.e.

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Smartphones – The Crucial Thread In The Fashion Retail Marketing Mix?

YoungUpstarts

With the proliferation of blog shops and rise of online shopping in Singapore – and in Asia – the casual observer might be forgiven for thinking the brick and mortar shops will go the way of the Dodo. I will be presenting the results at the upcoming Asia Fashion Summit 2013 at the Raffles Conference and Convention Centre this month.

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How to raise money for your startup from VCs and investors in Asia

The Next Web

The company is one of the largest VC–backed startups in Southeast Asia, having raised over $60M in funding. We’ve asked him to give us some insight into starting, building, and funding a company across Asia. Asia has far fewer VC firms and institutional investors, each of which invests a far smaller amount of capital.

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