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Southeast Asia Startup Ecosystem Continues to Prosper Post-Pandemic

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When it comes to launching a startup, most founders think they should reside in the United States, Silicon Valley, in particular, to have a successful business. 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 billion in 2018.

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[Singapore] Location Based Marketing Association Launches Local Chapter

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The Ontario, Canada-based Location Based Marketing Association (LBMA) earlier this month launched LMBA Singapore, its new regional chapter focused on promoting and supporting Asian companies working on location-based services (LBS) market through collaboration, education and research.

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Challenges and Opportunities for Europe’s Metaverse Market

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The Metaverse, a virtual universe where people can interact with each other in a 3D environment, is rapidly gaining traction as an emerging market, attracting businesses, investors, and talent from all over the world. Historically, European startups have lagged behind the US and Asia regarding nurturing unicorns.

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Startup Nation: The Best Startup Capitals for Entrepreneurs in 2023 

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The last few months have been an unprecedented time for entrepreneurs and startup founders on the market. Tech scale-up has been a massive driver for the local startup ecosystem, and non-VC or angel investing is also a growing market here.

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[Asia] Tech In Asia Buys GameSaku In Acquisition Blitz

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Just a week after Tech in Asia ( Techinasia.com ) completed its acquisition of fellow Singapore-based blog SGEntrepreneurs (SGE) for an undisclosed sum, the startup and technology blog today announced that it has also acquired Indonesia-based gaming blog GameSaku from Apps Foundry. In the News acquisition Asia GamesInAsia.

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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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[Asia] Socialbakers Opens Asia Pacific HQ In Singapore

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Global social media analytics and optimization company Socialbakers has announced the opening of its new Asia-Pacific headquarters based in Singapore. ”By 2017, Asia-Pacific will have the largest social network population worldwide.

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