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Coping With Late Payment – Managing Asia’s Slow Payers

YoungUpstarts

Across Asia Pacific, the average number of days for an invoice to be paid rose from 48 to 56, compared to the same period in the previous year. Understanding and managing cash flow will be crucial to riding the growth curve. net, Asia’s banks face $1 trillion Basel III capital shortfall, says DBS chief. Anthony Coundouris.

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[Event] [Singapore] Techventure 2011 To Introduce Techventure Asiasons Innovation Awards

YoungUpstarts

Techventure 2011 – one of Asia’s topmost events for the venture capital community to engage with the latest technology entrepreneurs organized by Asiasons WFG and presented by National Research Foundation (NRF) and Singapore Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (SVCA) – will celebrate its 15th year on October 13 and 14.

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Survival Tips From A Seasoned Digital Nomad Who Made It Out The Other Side

YoungUpstarts

by Martin Hunter, co-founder of Free Event Finder. What was born as a year long backpacking trip in Asia evolved into something a lot more meaningful, and 5 years and two startups later we can look back at the mistakes we made and the lessons we learned along the way. Most large Asian cities have reasonable internet connection.

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Inspiring Entrepreneurs: What Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has learned in his business career

The Next Web

In the first of a new series talking to tech industry leaders about what shaped them as entrepreneurs and the lessons they’ve learned in their careers, we speak to Netflix co-founder and CEO, Reed Hastings. People at Blockbuster and Kodak were smart, and they worked hard, but still didn’t manage to do that.

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Right Entrepreneurs In The Right Place Get Funded

Startup Professionals Musings

An older but still relevant study, published by CB Insights, Venture Capital Human Capital Report , summarizes a variety of characteristics for private early-stage Internet ventures funded in the US. The significant findings include the following: Founders need to live in the right place. More founders generally means more money.

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CEO Shaking Up the AI Industry With a Robotic Reading Companion for Kids

Hearpreneur

Jiawei graduated from Tsinghua University and prior to Ling Technology, he managed the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) group at Baidu Research Institute of Deep Learning (IDL), and also worked at Microsoft Research. The mission of Ling Technology’s founders was to create a “Ling” world with man and robot symbiosis. Tell us your story.

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[Singapore] Golden Gate Ventures Invests In Three Local Startups

YoungUpstarts

Singapore-based early-stage technology seed fund Golden Gate Ventures has announced investments into cloud-based inventory and sales management SaaS solutions provider TradeGecko , online grocer RedMart and mobile payment provider Coda Payments. “Southeast Asia is brimming with smart, talented, and self-driven entrepreneurs.

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