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What Happens When Leaders Forget The Culture That Made Their Company Great?

YoungUpstarts

The company was already reeling from two Boeing 737 Max crashes in 2018 and 2019 that killed 346 passengers in Indonesia and Ethiopia, and forced the company to ground its entire fleet of Max jetliners.

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How has the price of currency fluctuated as a result of COVID-19?

The Startup Magazine

At the very minimum, we can expect to see a sharp slowdown in all of the ASEAN economies during 2020, while the eventual decline may ultimately be worse than the Asian Financial Crisis (or Asian Contagion) of 1997. before the end of 2020, down from its initial forecast of +4.8.

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Franchises Finding International Niches

The Entrepreneurial Mind

Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Myanmar, Brunei, Cambodia and Laos are all seeing rapid growth in American franchise restaurants. Kentucky Fried Chicken first came to Vietnam in 1997 through the vision of Singapore entrepreneur and franchisee Tony Chew. One of the most popular franchises is KFC.

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A dumb American’s perspective on investing in Southeast Asia

Hippoland

I’d be curious what other people in-region think about this (and keep in mind, I won’t be doing the investing there, Shiyan will be :) ): 1) There are opportunities galore People like to use chronological analogies, so if I had to do that here, I would put investment opportunities in SEA at around 1997. Thailand has nearly 70m people.

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A dumb American’s perspective on investing in Southeast Asia

Hippoland

I’d be curious what other people in-region think about this (and keep in mind, I won’t be doing the investing there, Shiyan will be :) ): 1) There are opportunities galore People like to use chronological analogies, so if I had to do that here, I would put investment opportunities in SEA at around 1997. Thailand has nearly 70m people.

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