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Southeast Asia Startup Ecosystem Continues to Prosper Post-Pandemic

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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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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Where Should You Raise Money?

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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.

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2 Reasons Why This is the Best Holiday Season Ever

Growthink Blog

ViewQwest launched in Malaysia in Q3 2016 with Indonesia next in line. The entrepreneurs and executives running these great companies understood that whether you're looking to raise capital, sell your company, expand current market share or enter new markets, having a solid growth plan and roadmap is indispensable.

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The Story Behind Our Investment In Humble Dot

Haystack

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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Breakout Growth Strategies for Today’s Boom Market

Growthink Blog

This frothiness, when coupled with very low yields on cash instruments, makes it far easier for more speculative investment propositions, like angel, venture capital, and private equity investments, to be evaluated on their individual merits versus more of a blanket “risk anxiety” as is typical in more normal markets.

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Why B2B Marketplaces Are Red-Hot

Haystack

I often catch myself saying “You know, everyone in Malaysia could be on Slack and Zoom.” (Many of these founders generationally have been conditioned to the see the benefits of online/mobile marketplaces in their own lives, so it would make sense to want to apply this model to other problem areas or opportunities they discover.).

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The Summer Solstice And Seed Stage Squeeze

Haystack

We know global markets are open — today, for example, everyone in Malaysia could be a DAU for Zoom. We know that technology and network effects (like marketplaces or in software) drive the world economy. We know private markets hold the key to 100x or even 1,000x multiples.