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Starting Up In Singapore (Part I) – Product/Market Fit

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The business may either start in Singapore and quickly venture outwards OR it starts in a larger regional market e.g. Indonesia from day one. Finding: Sales Oriented companies tend to start and do well regionally and not globally] E.G. Brandtology, Stream Media (Movend), FlightOffice, Identifi etc. Consumer Facing B2C.

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Monetizing Social Networks: The Four Dominant Business Models and How You Should Implement Them in 2010

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The business models within the social media realm are much different than traditional businesses. In social networking, they’re ever-changing, backed by eye-opening revenue and have very little documentation. The middle man is called an ad network. Usually, there’s a middle man involved. Read more here.

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[Singapore] LinkedIn Hits 1 Million Users In Singapore

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Then the online professional networking site had around half a million members – earlier this week the company announced that its membership base has approximately doubled to over a million members, addressing about 70% of the country’s professional labor force and student population. million) and the Philippines (1.5+

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[Event] DEMO Asia: Is Being Female A Handicap?

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We this question to three female founders from Indonesia, Philippines and Singapore – it is difficult to start up being a woman? HobbyMash is a social network that connects people according to hobby and location, allowing them to interact, collaborate, and meet up to do things they love. No, all three founders echoed.

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[Asia] [Event] Demo Asia 2012

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Singapore is the second country in Asia to host a DEMO event after China, and the event will comprise of conferences, pitches and networking sessions for an invited group of companies to launch their products for the first time to an audience. DEMO Asia Singapore Audition. Date: Thursday, 10 Nov 2011.

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[Causes] Asia Water-for-Life Project To Provide Safe Water For 100,000 Across Asia

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Morgan , and Sesame Workshop , seeks to deliver clean, safe water and provide education on water-health and hygiene to disadvantaged communities in India, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia (Sabah) and the Philippines. The project, a collaboration between Planet Water , J.P. “We are proud to partner with Planet Water and J.P.

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The Next 10 Years Of Infocomm Technology

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Over the next few decades, this young cohort would comprise a rising proportion of citizens in Asia (31%-40% in Singapore, Korea, Hong Kong and Japan, and more than 51% in Malaysia, Philippines, India and Indonesia). This will result in stronger networks of interaction and relationships from employees to suppliers to customers.