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[Interview] Benjamin Yee of EMERGE App

YoungUpstarts

Aggressive expansion plans will no doubt see Ben explore off-the-beaten-track towns in Europe and South America in the near future. I started with a custom t-shirt printing company, branched out into a creative agency and then spun out a software solution from my t-shirt business that you see today as EMERGE App.

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[Review] The Lean Startup

YoungUpstarts

Most of us have a tendency to develop a strong case of sour grapes when we come across successful ventures. ” The Lean Startup ” cuts to the chase from the get-go, providing an actionable methodology – starting off with a bare-bones product, testing it with customers and analyzing the results. by Lee Shen Han.

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Mobile Payment Platform Swiff Launches in Singapore; Targets Other Markets

YoungUpstarts

Earlier this year, I commented during the launch of UOB’s mobile banking iOS application that mobile payment options such as that offered by Square would be a boon to small business owners. Mobile Payment Now A Reality For Singapore Small Business Owners. Today, Swiff is unique in its ability to do so.”

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DesignCrowd takes on 99Designs in the US, seeking to grow its crowdsourced design business tenfold

The Next Web

Alec Lynch, founder and CEO of DesignCrowd, tells TNW he believes the company has developed a crowdsourcing process that has helped it grow faster than its competitors. In particular, we’ve developed a crowdsourcing model that is fairer and more lucrative for designers and, in turn, better for customers.

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Sawyer on Why Bilski Really Means That Software Companies Should Leave the US

Feld Thoughts

And the PTO, headed now by the pro-patent former head of IP at IBM, David Kappos, will continue to treat patentees like “customers” and pump economy-destroying patents out as it if were the Fed printing money. What Bilski means for software is that the advantages of starting software businesses abroad have become even more clear.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

My father was a doctor, a pediatrician with zero interest or knowledge in business at all. He grew up in Colombia, South America. ” And just – you develop a pattern over time that no matter how many times I try to say no to you, I can’t. I grew up in Northern California. His father came from Romania.

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Creating the Next Silicon Valley – The Chilean Experiment

Steve Blank

I did a keynote on innovation hubs at the newly created DoFuture program , spoke at Santiago’s Startup Weekend on Customer and Agile Development, and at a Conference in Patagonia supported by the Ministry of Economy’s Innovation Division. Chile has decided that it wants to be an innovation hub in South America.