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 news comes as Twitter CEO Dick Costolo abruptly indicating that he would be stepping down amid increasing scrutiny of the company’s slow user and revenue growth.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 18, 2013

How big are small businesses in Asia? Did you know, for example, that in Asia small and medium enterprises (SMEs) contribute between 25% to 60% percent to a country’s gross domestic product (GDP), constitute 16% to 69% of its exports, and employ between 52% to 97% of its workforce? Apparently, very very big.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

In fact, as Asian consumers continue to demand easily-accessible entertainment, OTT services such as pay TV are increasingly becoming a necessity in the region with revenues expected to grow to US$43.9 ” Events & Happenings Asia BroadcastAsia broadcasting conference content delivery exhibition mobile content' billion by 2018.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 15, 2013

According to Sriram Krishnan, Spotify’s head of new markets in Asia Pacific, the service – available now in 23 countries – currently has over 6 million full-paying customers who subscribe to their premium music services out of a total subscribed base of 24 million active users. .”

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 7, 2021

Over the next five years, the Asia-Pacific region will witness – massive progress in courier delivery services due to huge investments made in micro fulfillment centers (MFCs) and smart warehouses.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 29, 2019

The situation could become even more tangled if the effects from China spill over into the rest of Asia (or beyond) due to intertwined supply chains. They are now the vanguard in controlling the damage and identifying new streams of revenue. Here are four ways your sales team can help when tariffs are putting pressure on profits: 1.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 12, 2012

The concept of working on-the-go in Asia has resulted in application developers experiencing a sudden increase in companies commissioning the creation of enterprise applications for the mobile workplace over the past 18 months. By Joe Ong, managing director of Hitachi Data Systems Singapore. Outlining the perils of mass application adoption.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 18, 2012

As a startup in Asia, the top 2 markets to start from are China , and India. Hence, a Singaporean founder will find it easier to execute in the 3rd key market that is the MENASSEA region (Middle East, North Africa and South/Southeast Asia). MENASSEA includes countries below. [Tip: Global from day one (GD1).

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 18, 2015

In 2013, there were 909 million mobile gamers worldwide, nearly half of which resided in the Asia Pacific region, and 146 million of which came from North America. Newzoo, a video game research firm, reported that 2014 revenue for mobile gaming was $25 billion – up 43% over revenues from 2013.

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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. See part one here. It gets worse with even more experienced candidates. Keep it simple.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Knowbella Tech is an open science collaboration company that uses blockchain to deliver free tools, services, grants, and intellectual properties (IP) to researchers, particularly the underserved in Africa, Asia and Latin America. We will also seek first-mover STEM recruiting customers in order to generate revenues.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 8, 2023

million people and generate monthly revenue. It is fascinating to see how trends develop in Asia and America and how similar yet different they are. #2 As for Metaverse — businesses should keep an eye on it as it is not clear yet whether this is hype or a trend. TikTok and Influencers One viral video on TikTok can reach 1.5

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 15, 2011

Florin has already built a nice, profitable business with $100,000 a year in revenue. He is looking at additional expansion opportunities, especially in Europe (through the introduction of multi-language forms) and Asia (through channel partners). Of course, the significantly lower cost-structure in Romania helps a lot.

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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.

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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. The temptation is to transform the vision of a large market into a solid corporate revenue forecast – before Customer Development even begins.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

It turns out that to build a successful company you ultimately need this strange thing called “revenue” that people don’t just hand you: You need to earn it. And there’s this other thing called “gross margin,” which shows the quality of your revenue. How much ad revenue does TripAdvisor make?

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 31, 2018

It also showcases how getting it right can transform startups into players: Pokemon Go caused software startup Niantic’s revenues to skyrocket by $600 million within just three months of its mid-2016 launch. He also believes that startups often have an advantage in using technological advances to help them innovate customer experiences.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 10, 2017

by Alex Campbell, Managing Director, Asia, ‎ Xero. Of the 530 Singapore startups surveyed in 2016, a quarter recorded no revenue at all while 29 percent generate revenues but were spending more money than they earned. He leads Xero’s growth into Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, the Philippines, and 45+ countries across Asia.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 23, 2014

If you want to succeed in Estonia as a software business, you had better think about how to leverage customers in Europe, America and Asia as well, otherwise you’ll find it incredibly difficult to reach a sustainable scale. A trial-by-fire environment like ours means that we can’t hope to launch a company without revenue.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

“This investment will be dedicated to consolidate our leadership in the markets in which we are already present and accelerate growth in recently opened regions, such as Asia,” said Jon Uriarte, CEO & co-founder of Ticketbis. . It then expanded to the rest of Europe, the United States as well as the Latin America and Asia markets.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 14, 2018

2- Revenue growth. My company has been growing and expanding significantly the past few years and we’re projected to reach $1M in revenue in 2019. and Success, and I’m going to scale my business to where I have a team working for me across the different continents I operate in (Asia, Europe and America).

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 29, 2013

by Meng Weng Wong, co-founder and social engineer at JFDI Asia. But they’ll sit up and pay attention when you talk about the customers and revenues of the business. Because we’ve learned the hard way that $100,000, which is six months of runway in Silicon Valley, is a retirement jackpot in half of Southeast Asia.

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venturedig.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

In social networking, they’re ever-changing, backed by eye-opening revenue and have very little documentation. The concept of virtual currency is profoundly simple , however, the numbers and revenue this churns out is eye-opening (see table below). Total Estimated Revenue For Year: $200 million. Virtual Currency.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

It turns out that for commercialization, the business model (Customers, Channel, Revenue Model, etc.) Increasing the number of sales people much past 4-5 for a rollout does not proportionally increase revenue in most cases, because you are on the front end of early adopters and wrestling to overcome and reduce the sales learning curve.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 19, 2013

This challenge comes after the Internet giant set up its Asia-Pacific business headquarters in Singapore last year. It also recently announced a US$10 million ‘Rakuten Asia Startup Fund’ in April earlier this year, signalling its recognition in Asia’s potential booming e-commerce market even as it seeks to expand its operations outside Japan.

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Transformify

AUGUST 16, 2020

Transformify , a UK-based Freelancer Management System (FMS), has partnered up with Xoxoday , an HR Software company based in India that has offices in Singapore, Australia, the US, Ireland and the Philippines, to boost its expansion across Asia. There is a clear synergy between Transformify Freelancer Management System (FMS) and Xoxoday.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

The response to the game’s highly-anticipated release has been incredible, with the app surpassing over $160 million in worldwide revenue within its first month of launch. revenues from location-targeted mobile ads would grow from $6.8 By Siva Ganeshanandan, Director, APAC, Adobe Marketing Cloud. billion in 2015 to $18.2

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 1, 2011

Next week, the 1M/1M roundtable will focus on entrepreneurs in East Asia, Australia and New Zealand. Sramana Mitra is the founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative, an educational, business development and incubation program that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 1, 2013

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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YoungUpstarts

MAY 16, 2011

We changed our focus to Asia because we asked what readers want. No matter how busy we are, we do our part by helping founders to connect with investors and mentors in Asia. We also get non-tech-related emails that seek advice on jobs, the Asia market and contact recommendations. At Penn Olson , we change a lot even up to now.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 2, 2014

The company then started its international expansion, and today has presence in 15 countries around the world in especially in Latin-speaking countries (which isn’t a surprise considering its Spain roots), but also covers parts of Asia including Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea and Singapore. million euros by 2011.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 21, 2011

The market share and revenue in Asia has a huge impact on the Firefall global operation. This was one of the reasons why we have decided to set up an Asia headquarters for Firefall,” says Mr Zhu Jun, CEO of Red 5 Singapore.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Newzoo estimates the global games market revenue at approximately $150 Billion in 2019, across all platforms, devices etc. According to Statista, the Music industry generated around $56 Billion in revenue in 2019, and movies generated record of $42.5 Billion in revenues in 2019. Billion in revenues in 2019.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 20, 2021

When nearly everyone on the planet was impacted by complete loss of employment, layoffs and reduced business revenue, it definitely created a need for a strong financial plan. Grab and GoJek are doing well in Asia, particularly in the southeast region. One thing at the top of that list is financial responsibility.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 20, 2016

We intend to focus on the ride-sharing, transportation market in South Asia, as it is the most eventful zone in this regard: along with also being a sector that’s making leaps and strides in its scope and revenue. With Grab in focus, we realize that Uber has been trying to spread themselves out for a while in Asia now.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 10, 2012

Chuang admits that Qiito currently doesn’t have a revenue model as yet. million investment from Japan’s Lunar Asia should provide a healthy runway as the 16-man startup looks for a way to monetize the site.

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OnlyOnce

JANUARY 2, 2011

For a small company that has revenue and accounts receivable, you probably are more inclined to Monetary Policy as it has more to do with your ability to access debt capital from banks through credit lines. Inflation may seem like a neutral thing for a business – your costs may be going up, but your revenue should be going up as well, right?

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