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[Asia] Music Streaming Service Spotify Launches In Singapore And Malaysia

YoungUpstarts

If you’re not aware, Spotify started as a tiny little startup in Stockholm, Sweden in 2008. Other players in the music distribution business in this region are likely to view this development with some consternation, but that’s the nature of the (music) business.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Microsoft's $100K India Startup Challenge Grant

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The company has distribution through about 50 retailers in Chennai, and is looking for ways to market their product through online channels. Next week, the 1M/1M roundtable will focus on entrepreneurs in East Asia, Australia and New Zealand. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. We discussed guerilla p.r.,

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East meets West: Why Chinese app developers are targeting US smartphone owners

The Next Web

Founded in 2008, Shanghai-based CooTek is the company behind TouchPal X Keyboard and TouchPal Contacts , which lets you type contact names directly on your smartphone’s dial pad. Distribution and cashflow pose challenges in China. CooTek is Chinese but targeted Western consumers first. Being copied is a huge problem in China.

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Strategy Roundtable: Investors Don't Fund Broad Ideas

ReadWriteStart

Then Lokesh Parakh discussed a consulting service that he and his five colleagues are trying to pull together in the pre-paid card business, helping non-banking financial institutions launch card services in South Asia. Distribution Channel for Product Companies. It might be a much better alignment of skills.

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Inspiring Entrepreneurs: Ted Livingston’s rollercoaster ride as CEO of hit messaging startup Kik

The Next Web

He duly took it and vowed to start a company when his finished his third and final placement with RIM in December 2008. So, for the last two years, Kik has set about turning Kik into a mobile browser with a messenger at the center for distribution. “That was the best piece of individual advice ever got in my life,” Livingston says.

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Should We Take Harvard MBAs Seriously as Startup Founders? [New Data]

View from Seed

In fact, there are over 250 founders from the HBS classes between 2008 and 2014. Harvard MBA Startup Founders: 2008-2014. As in all things startup-related, the distributions are not even. Combined, they’ve raised over $2.5 billion in capital to date for the 90+ companies they launched. billion in venture funding.

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This Week in VC with Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Mo was graduated from Wharton, worked in investment banking, spent 6 years at IAC (including in an operational role for Connected Ventures which includes College Humor, Busted T’s and Vimeo) before joining Spark Capital in 2008. We also discussed having distributed teams (e.g. Founded in 2008 by Mehdi Maghsoodnia.