Sun.Feb 08, 2015

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Does Alternative Finance Exist In Singapore And Hong Kong?

YoungUpstarts

'by Anthony Coundouris , trade finance evangelist for ApexPeak. In Hong Kong, there are fewer than 10 alternative financiers, with similar numbers in Singapore. Alternative finance has grown slowly in these countries, because both are the historical treasurers of Asia. Money is in good supply and there are viable borrowing options for small-business owners.

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PR in the global economy: How media is different in Latin America vs. the US

The Next Web

'Conrad Egusa is the CEO of Publicize. He is happy to connect on LinkedIn here. Good PR strategy starts with good intelligence. You have to understand the value of the stories you want to tell. And you have to understand the publications you want to reach. And just as pitching a story to The Next Web isn’t the same as pitching it to the Wall Street Journal, there are also important, sweeping differences between the media cultures in different countries and even regions.

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Must-Have Technological Aids For Real Estate Agents

YoungUpstarts

'by Preethy Martin, content strategist at Proptiger.com. Technology plays a key role in optimizing the workflow of a business. This holds true for real estate agencies as well, wherein the agents are constantly on their toes in a bid to stay one step of competition. This requires them to be out of their office and on the move, which may make it difficult for them to tackle some of their tasks at the workplace.

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Heidi Armstrong: The Woman Who Took On The Big 4 Banks In The Australian Mortgage Industry And Won

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

'Heidi Armstrong is an entrepreneur with an eclectic background and a penchant for breaking into male dominated industries to shake things up. Heidi is best known for co-founding a very successful, online non-bank lending business called State Custodians. This business became a formidable competitor in the home finance industry in. The post Heidi Armstrong: The Woman Who Took On The Big 4 Banks In The Australian Mortgage Industry And Won appeared first on Entrepreneurs-Journey.com.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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The ferry driver, the founder, and the freelancer

The Startup Toolkit

'Back then, most people couldn’t swim, so they would hire a small boat and a driver to take them across the rivers. The winter snows were melting and the river was violent, but the passenger had no idea how bad it would be until they were out on the water. He was clutching the edges of the boat in terror as the ferry driver calmly wove between the currents and the rocks.

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Tom Ford : : 15 things every man should have

Scalable Startup

'Here’s Tom Ford’s list of essentials for every modern man (from Vogue UK)… A sense of humour. A daily read of a newspaper. A sport that you love and are good at. Tweezers. A good cologne that becomes a signature. A well cut dark suit. A pair of classic black lace up shoes. A smart blazer. The perfect pair of dark denim jeans. Lots of crisp white cotton shirts.

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Why Most Online Video Companies Will Fail

Both Sides of the Table

'I live in LA and fund startups. So you can imagine that I see a lot of video startups. Most will fail. I repeat the same mantra to every one I see. “You can’t build a large online video company. You have to build a large online tech company that distributes video.” I try to explain this to every team I see and I’m not being flippant.

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