YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 9, 2013

But newly-launched Asia-based online wine marketplace WineFamily instead aims to invite licensed wine retailers across the region to create virtual stores in an Etsy-style platform and sell directly online to consumers in Asia. But easy online access to a large portfolio of wines will likely be the key draw for consumers in Asia.

Asia 203

Asia Singapore Social Network Community 203

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 16, 2018

by Keiichiro Nozaki, Regional Marketing Architect/Evangelist of Asia Pacific, China, and Japan for F5 Networks. However, it wasn’t until 1983 when the first commercially viable mobile phones went on sale in the U.S. A century ago, we had the industrial revolution. It transformed how we manufactured, well, everything.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

With venture capitalists around the world shifting their focus to Asia, here are 5 ways the surge in venture capital fundraising is shaking up the startup landscape in the region. KPMG’s Venture Pulse Q3 2017 reported that the Asian market has raised $12.3 Drives development in technology. Increases government support and legislation.

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Venture Capital Asia Artificial Inteligence Later Stage 175

The Next Web

JANUARY 17, 2014

But finding the right local partner isn’t easy, and even if you do find one, gaining a foothold in the massive Chinese mobile market takes patience, insight, and strategy. The biggest mistake most US entrepreneurs make right off the bat is in thinking of China as one market. Seeing double. The right partners.

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China Marketing Asia Mobile 128

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 4, 2014

How big is the market for Muslim-friendly products and services? Spanning halfway round the globe – from Turkey to the United Arab Emirates to India, South East Asia and China – the book brings one on a fascinating tour of the complex business characteristics governing our neck of the woods.

Technical Review 162

Technical Review United Arab Emirates Saudi Arabia China 162

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Held on January 15 to 17, 2012 in Mumbai, India, the event is designed to create a forum for some of the top marketing professionals to congregate and create a marketplace for ideas and services that will help Asian companies get the marketing edge.

Asia 162

Asia India Mobile SEO 162

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 16, 2015

Twitter last week announced that it has opened its office in Singapore, officially designating it as its headquarters for the Asia Pacific region. The new regional headquarters will be home to a wide range of business functions, including sales, partnerships, marketing, HR, finance, user services, legal, policy, and trust & safety.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 14, 2011

.” Global Money Flow – From the West to Asia. It was also evident that Asia is becoming the darling for technology innovation, and is increasingly attracting the attention of financiers – venture capitalists, angel investors etc – from all over the world. ” The flow is not limited to money as well.

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Singapore Technical Review Technology Incubator 179

Version One Ventures

JULY 2, 2019

We also invested in Guesser whose mission is to make prediction markets more accessible to mainstream users. Blockstack announced that it intends to raise $50 million in a token sale that would leverage the SEC’s Regulation A+ crowdfunding exemption. Ada , a market leader in automated customer experience , launched Ada Glass.

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Portfolio Canada Asia Incubator 111

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 7, 2011

In a developer conference today in Singapore, online social networking giant Facebook made its strongest indication yet of its intention to better engage developers in Asia and Southeast Asia.

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Singapore Asia Developer Social Network 150

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

When you choose a market, you should consider five main factors: 1. How many customers are in the market? How many customers are in the market? A market can be huge but dominated by only a few players. Or a market perceived to be global can be dominated by a few regions. The other half is commercial gallery sales.

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Small Business Marketing Startup Silicon Valley 110

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 30, 2017

All data should be analysed to detect patterns and market analysis. Jason Bissell is General Manager of Asia Pacific and Japan, Talend and Calvin Hoon is Regional VP for Sales, Asia Pacific for Talend. Again, data is valuable. Data-driven companies are making a lot more progress compare with “digital laggards”.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

This audience is immensely attractive to Brands and Marketers around the world. I can see the correlation, but the conclusion implies a causality that may or may not be there ("the product sales exceeded all internal projections!"). Facebook has an incredible audience, 950 million strong and counting.

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Metrics Advertising Marketing Social Media 165

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 10, 2017

We’re all experiencing the rise of a growing number of cloud applications coming through sales, marketing, HR, operations or finance to complement centrally designed, legacy IT apps, such as ERP, data warehousing or CRM. the marketing analyst who cleanses tradeshow leads, or the financial analyst who rectifies a budget spreadsheet).

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Government Technical Review Asia Japan 104

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 4, 2012

last week launched a new series of mobile advertising products in its Southeast Asian markets targeted at helping businesses reach their consumers via the device they’re almost always embracing. Smart Ads can optimize ads for each user so that marketers can drive awareness to conversion. Smart Ads: Yahoo! Targeted Ads: Yahoo!’s

Asia 158

Asia Mobile Video Singapore 158

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Inbound marketing service provider HubSpot recently released its first ever State of Inbound Report for Asia – which surveyed some 400 marketing and sales professionals at virtually all levels and across all industries in Asia to compile some of the most comprehensive analysis on online marketing in this part of the world.

Asia 100

Asia Las Vegas Marketing Technical Review 100

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2016

By Kurt Bilafer, Global Vice President Sales & Success at WePay. Its cloud platform lets sales and marketing teams connect and share information about customers and prospects, and developers have enriched the value of the platform with a host of applications that integrate to the platform and add to its functionality.

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Japan Global Asia API 100

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 26, 2017

In the world of e-commerce, online sales are the bread and butter for firms of any size. We spoke to Gogoprint about customer acquisition processes, and in particular the importance of sales teams for B2B-oriented e-commerce. In many cases, the backbone of B2B e-commerce start-ups is a strong sales team.

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B2B Sales Thailand Malaysia 170

YoungUpstarts

JULY 18, 2013

Well, Jay Baer , author of “ Youtility: Why Smart Marketing Is about Help Not Hype “, seems to think so. I first blogged about Jay’s notion of helpful marketing last year after hearing his engaging podcast on Copyblogger Radio. Mapping Customer Needs to Useful Marketing. Marketing Your Marketing.

Technical Review 133

Technical Review Phoenix Metrics Singapore 133

The Next Web

AUGUST 30, 2013

The company is one of the largest VC–backed startups in Southeast Asia, having raised over $60 million in funding. This is the second part of a four-part series that will provide insight into starting, building, and funding a company across Asia. Having people in-market and on the ground is key in each of these countries.

Asia 129

Asia Operations Indonesia Thailand 129

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 4, 2014

If there’s a sure sign that shows how interest in online flash sales have waned, it’s how many daily deal sites have either deadpooled or pivoted away from that particular business model. “Initially, our main focus was on flash sales which worked well as a USP because these were deals you could not find elsewhere. .

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Flash Business Model Sales Singapore 155

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 10, 2018

E-commerce is exploding in Asia, with e sales for Asia-Pacific expected to total US$1.37 trillion in 2017 according to e-Marketer, and hitting the US$3 trillion by 2021. of total e-commerce sales in the region and 494 million buyers. In this role she heads up Asia Pacific from its headquarters in Hong Kong.

Asia 122

Asia China Global Sales 122

Diego Basch

JULY 12, 2019

If you are interested in hardware innovation, you want to be in Asia. build an execution team wherever convenient (could be Asia, Europe, India, anywhere in the US, who knows). if applicable, establish a Bay Area presence for market development or sales. Hardware is not made here anymore. VCs do not invest in hardware.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 20, 2017

by Amanda Setili, author of “ Fearless Growth: The New Rules to Stay Competitive, Foster Innovation, and Dominate Your Markets “ Growth has always been fundamental to business success, but it’s never been more critical than it is now. Alibaba is the most valuable company in Asia, but it has no inventory. Not anymore.

Technical Review 127

Technical Review Malaysia Agile Employee 127

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

Sales management. Many people don’t think of sales jobs as being especially lucrative. What they should remember is that sales jobs will often be more or less lucrative depending on the state of the local economy and the nature of the market. The question is: do you have the right timing?

Singapore 100

Singapore South Korea Technical Review Finance 100

Hippoland

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

It’s one thing to hear from other people that Southeast Asia (SEA) is up-and-coming, but it was totally another thing to go there and talk with so many people about the future. CRMs / marketing tech generally work. These fast sales cycles tend to come from selling to other startups. Messaging / email generally works.

Asia 48

Asia Indonesia B2B Singapore 48

Hippoland

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

It’s one thing to hear from other people that Southeast Asia (SEA) is up-and-coming, but it was totally another thing to go there and talk with so many people about the future. CRMs / marketing tech generally work. These fast sales cycles tend to come from selling to other startups. Messaging / email generally works.

Asia 48

Asia Indonesia B2B Singapore 48

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2020

The authors recommend, and I support, the establishment of a transformation advisory board, including key board members, the CEO, and a couple of outside experts who understand the market, to set mandates, define milestones, and make funding decisions. They grew sales by 28% in 2009, while most companies were hunkered down and losing share.

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Agile Advisory Board Metrics Asia 307

View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

They were wrapping up participation in an accelerator program and Ben was planning to move back to Chicago to build the company there, having previously worked at Groupon before moving on to other tech companies in Asia, as well as a brief time in California.

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Chicago Cofounder Miami B2B 177

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 20, 2021

The housing market is set to have another booming year in 2021. 5- Change in marketing. I foresee a shift in the way products are marketed. As we have all been transplanted into the digital realm, social media and influencer marketing is bigger than ever. 18- Conversational marketing. 3- Two trends. 8- Podcasts.

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Entrepreneur United States Software Review Technical Review 149

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Lately I’ve been having to say things I thought I’d never have to remind people, like, “getting to positive gross margin in several territories is a very low bar to claim success” or “profitable excluding marketing costs” is not actually a real thing. Market Size. MakeSpace provides physical storage.

Startup 150

Startup Seed Money DC Software Review 150

Steve Blank

AUGUST 23, 2010

We spent two days of analyzing and exploring their customer discovery visits just completed across South America, Africa and Asia. We’re Not Here for a Sales Call. Disabusing the audience of the notion that the visit is a sales call is vital to the customer discovery mission. But we are not here for a sales call.&#.

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Customer Development Developer Customer South America 235

View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

They were wrapping up participation in an accelerator program and Ben was planning to move back to Chicago to build the company there, having previously worked at Groupon before moving on to other tech companies in Asia, as well as a brief time in California.

Chicago 156

Chicago Cofounder Miami B2B 156

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 7, 2016

When reaching outside your comfort zone to market to new areas of the world, it is important to realise there will be differences in culture as well as in language. Even so, first you need to understand the keys to marketing in Latin America. According to recent statistics, Brazil is a fast growing ecommerce market.

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America Brazil United States Marketing 100

The Next Web

JANUARY 23, 2014

Timo Rein is the cofounder & CEO of Pipedrive , and was previously the cofounder of Vain & Partners - the leading Sales Training company in the Baltics. American entrepreneurs get to enjoy an enormous market for their products, with multiple software-loving and integrating cities and a population that is literally 300 times as large.

Estonia 143

Estonia Software Review Europe San Francisco 143

Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Building A People-Centric Culture: From Employees To Contributors written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with John Janstch In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interviewed Kai Anderson, a seasoned strategist and the leader of workforce transformation at Mercer.

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Employee Europe Leadership Technical Review 78

YoungUpstarts

JULY 26, 2012

But a new Singapore hardware startup, AFTERSHOCK PC , believes it can compete in this market with its range of custom laptops wholly dedicated for gaming. AFTERSHOCK PC has announced that it’s making available two customizable gaming notebook computers in Southeast Asia – the more compact AFTERSHOCK X11 in a 11.6-inch

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Singapore Marketing Asia Startup 220