The Startup Magazine
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
Heralding a new era of digital transformation, technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) are being infused exponentially into the world around us. Most notably, the ground-breaking development and rapid global distribution of mRNA vaccines highlighted the speed and scale of technological advances to outsmart humanity’s most dire threats.
ReadWriteStart
JANUARY 29, 2023
As per a report by Google, Temasek Holdings, and Bain & Company, as many as 40 million people in six countries across the region — Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Thailand — came online for the first time in 2020. Venture capital (VC) investment is the primary funding source for regional startups.
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ReadWriteStart
DECEMBER 9, 2010
In fact, I just did a case study on Coastal Contacts , a $150 million e-commerce company that sells contact lenses online and has built itself up largely by using inventory financing as opposed to venture capital and equity financing. Next Vin Lim presented Qyzzy.com , which can be succinctly summarized as the Yelp of Malaysia.
Growthink Blog
DECEMBER 20, 2017
MPulse (SaaS), acquired by JDM Technology Group. NativeAds (digital advertising) closed on a $4M venture financing. ViewQwest launched in Malaysia in Q3 2016 with Indonesia next in line. Halliburton (NYSE:HAL) acquired our client manufacturing process control company Ometric. PayCertify (fintech), secured $700k in seed funding.
Haystack
AUGUST 18, 2019
They’ve all accepted that this is a new world of capital abundance and that the pistons driving the global economy are technology and network effects. When more capital is chasing the same set, entry prices go up and returns are likely to go down. You lose way more than you win. You wait the longest for liquidity.
Haystack
DECEMBER 18, 2019
I often catch myself saying “You know, everyone in Malaysia could be on Slack and Zoom.” These entrepreneurs are able to build off of advances in SaaS and fintech technologies to help enter these new markets. ” It’s kind of a wild statement, but also entirely plausible.
Haystack
SEPTEMBER 19, 2019
I like to jokingly say “everyone in Malaysia could use Zoom daily” but it’s really true. What Slack and Zoom have demonstrated is that with bottoms-up freemium-to-enterprise grade software adoption, the total addressable market is literally the entire world.
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