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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: How Do You Catalyze A Region's Entrepreneurship?

ReadWriteStart

Today, building Internet businesses, or businesses that are primarily marketed through the Internet, is viable for entrepreneurs all over the world. Malaysia is trying hard to build a hub and finding it difficult. It is no longer Silicon Valley's exclusive domain.

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5 Online Tips For Food Trucks to Grow Their Business

Kodorra

Born between 1980 and 1995, the timing of the rite of passage for this generation loosely coincides with the birth of the Internet and when digital technology went mainstream with compact discs, personal computers and mobile phones. Social media presence is a mandatory presence. Social media followers dig that.

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Freelancing is the new normal: oDesk and the future of the workforce marketplace

The Next Web

The main prize of oDesk’s competition is a trip to the Silicon Valley with guided tours to the offices of major Internet companies, including Facebook, PayPal, Autodesk, and others. Among other fastest-growing client countries one can also find Latvia, Pakistan, Romania, Lithuania, and Malaysia.

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The Next 10 Years Of Infocomm Technology

YoungUpstarts

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). Finally, prepare for a “system of systems” approach in ICT design.

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Transportation, On-Demand And The Asian Economy – Asian Horizons

YoungUpstarts

The on-demand economy may have been spurred by the big names that have frequent mentions in social media or otherwise: Uber, Airbnb and the whole shebang. Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, India and some other countries have been privy to the on-demand bubble, so to speak. Hyperlocal Focus.

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27 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Once I knew I definitely wanted to start a fashion boutique, I started talking about it to people and on social media platforms like Facebook, so people could hold me accountable. I was on vacation in Malaysia. It was 1998 and the internet wasn’t exactly readily available. 4 – Help People Connect Their World.

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Six Companies That Were Targeted In 2017: Seven Lessons We Can Learn From Their Struggles

YoungUpstarts

Consumers now make buying decisions based on peer reviews and social media and have shifted to smaller, newer brands that have a direct digital relationship with their consumers. and Malaysia. These more digital-savvy companies then get up-to-the-minute input on customer preferences.

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