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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. As the company’s Commercial Manager, Hortensius was armed with the responsibility of setting up the office’s headquarters in Kuala Lumpur as well as growing the local team. Giving the wrong company perks and benefits.

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See More than 120 Speakers and Mentors at The Lean Startup Conference

Startup Lessons Learned

As the emeritus Chief Technology Officer of the United States, he still connects government and Silicon Valley. He’ll talk about making a profit and making a difference in a conversation with New Media Ventures’ Christie George. Todd Park convened the team that saved Obamacare.

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Significant Percentage Of Global Email Traffic Is Spam: Cloudmark

YoungUpstarts

Asia Pacific countries rated fairly low on the global scale when it came to volume of email spam sent, but they do exhibit a high incidence of spam among total emails sent (i.e. Here’s a look at how five Asia Pacific countries rate: COUNTRY. they send less emails, but a large proportion of those can be spam).

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Businesswomen’s Sustainability Leadership Summit

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

I was in the yellow group, so our question was “How are the customer values changing? Companies can keep up by listening to their customers via social media or other feedback mechanisms. I was intrigued by her bio, CTO at Cisco, currently or previously a board member at Disney, FedEx, and Sun Microsystems. Gotta love that!

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Businesswomen’s Sustainability Leadership Summit

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

I was in the yellow group, so our question was “How are the customer values changing? Companies can keep up by listening to their customers via social media or other feedback mechanisms. I was intrigued by her bio, CTO at Cisco, currently or previously a board member at Disney, FedEx, and Sun Microsystems. Gotta love that!

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Micro-Multinationals, And How They Will Define Our Era

YoungUpstarts

In Asia, China provides a case in point. The Internet and related technologies are driving Chinese SMEs to become micro-multinationals in droves as they take advantage of the opportunity to sell to overseas customers using online marketplaces such as Alibaba or Global Sources – or even foreign platforms [12]. 3] Varian, H.,

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On Leadership, Teams, Success & Happiness

Both Sides of the Table

You want somebody who can do handset deals in the US, Europe & Asia. What results must you have in order to raise venture capital or garner good press coverage that helps drive customer acquisition (and also more funding!)? They fund people with no customers. He took this as a challenge and had a CTO in one week.