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A dumb American’s perspective on investing in Southeast Asia

Hippoland

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. Here’s my take on B2B – if you look at the US ecosystem, most of the high flying B2B companies got to their level of growth because of fast sales cycles.

Asia 48
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A dumb American’s perspective on investing in Southeast Asia

Hippoland

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. Here’s my take on B2B – if you look at the US ecosystem, most of the high flying B2B companies got to their level of growth because of fast sales cycles.

Asia 48
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Founder Interview: Michel Ruiz on Augmented Reality and Building the KaviAR Tech Startup

The Startup Magazine

With a 30-year history of leadership and innovation in marketing, entrepreneurship and technology, Michel’s vision is to solve problems and increase clients’ business success with the use of augmented reality. AR shortens the sales cycle and simplifies the act of buying. Quality control?

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Sales Success Begins And Ends With Engagement

YoungUpstarts

Optimizing to quota worked fine when I was an individual contributor, but as I moved into management and got further removed from the nuts and bolts of the sales cycle and engaging with customers every day, I had to figure out a way to influence the members of my team to make their number. Optimizing to quota.

Sales 100
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10 Tips for Enterprise Software Startups

ReadWriteStart

Bernard is based in New York, was born in Berlin, has lived in and started companies in Asia and Europe as well as America; he is comfortable with globalization. The technology has to be superb to get into the enterprise. Next page: The transition from a founder who does all the sales to a scalable sales team is really, really hard.

Software 127
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The Proof was not in the Pudding: Pudding Media is Shutting Down

VC Cafe

The new strategy gained Pudding some momentum in South East Asia and the company managed to secure agreements with mobile carriers in Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and others, however, they did not translate into revenue. The right partner from the advertising industry in Asia, should be able to extract more value. So what went wrong?

Media 95
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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

Cracking the Code

Only after reaching $1M in CMRR should you consider hiring European sales and services execs behind customer demand. Save Asia for post-IPO Single instance, multi-tenant, single datacenter - Have only one version of the code in production. Save Asia for post-IPO. Yet many B2B companies don’t have a clue.