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Carousell gets cozy with Rakuten to bring its mobile marketplace to Southeast Asia

The Next Web

The reason why we started Carousell in the first place was because we didn’t want to continue using any of the existing channels anymore. In July, Rakuten tested a new e-commerce service that lets users in Taiwan search for clothes using photos — reminiscent of what Carousell is doing right now.

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Furniture CEO Finds Balance between Success and Staying Grounded

Hearpreneur

Throughout the year, Blake travels to China, Taiwan and Mexico to meet with manufacturers and negotiate pricing and development of new and innovative office and school furniture products. He studies and analyzes the latest trends in the industry by traveling around the nation and regularly attending trade shows.

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JD.com Celebrates a Decade of Non-stop Delivery Service During Spring Festival Holidays

The Startup Magazine

On JD Super, JD’s omni-channel supermarket, the phrase “new year gift box” was searched over 110 million times. During the festival this year, customers from countries such as Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, the United States, Canada and Australia ordered 4.5

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The Taxonomy of the Lean Startup Pivot

blog.startupsquare.com

In Eric’s list, I’m looking mostly at “technology pivot &# and “channel pivot &# which have nothing to do with who you’re target with what product, but instead focuses on how to make the product. There is a lot of overlap between Eric’s list and mine and some of his terms are a lot zingier.

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

www.readwriteweb.com

A Taiwan outfit created a c lanaguage interface to EEMS which worked, but I had to speed it up by a factor of 4 by rewriting what they did. Ive had mixed experience with offshoring, even from relatively advanced countries in the 80s.

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning– Explained

Steve Blank

AI applications are already appearing in virtual customer assistants with speech recognition, sentiment analysis, automated/augmented quality assurance and other technologies providing customers with 24/7 self- and assisted-service options across channels. AI in National Security. AI/ML and Ubiquitous Technical Surveillance.