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5 Mistakes We Made While Growing A Startup In Southeast Asia

YoungUpstarts

In March 2016, Rosanne Hortensius left the Netherlands to launch online couponing platform Saleduck in Southeast Asia. While it is quite rare in Europe, many companies in Southeast Asia also provide their employees with health insurance that also extends its coverage to their partners. Looking for talent in the wrong places.

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SXSW Startups: Pawame Powers Africa

Austin Startup

There are few bigger stages than SXSW to reach the financiers, partners and other supporters that we will need to be successful, and few with an audience as likely to be sensitized to the importance of what we are trying to achieve. Our CTO and Co-founder Majd Chaaya and colleague Hella Bennani are representing us there at the end of January.

Africa 48
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The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Software Company

Up and Running

“If you can fix a problem for someone and do it better, quicker, and/or cheaper than your competitor, you’re off to a good start.” – Gabriel Kuperman, founder and CEO of CuePin. We created UpKeep to fill this void—a cloud-based solution that was affordable for any size business.” – Ryan Chan, founder of UpKeep.

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

Security will shift from defensive to predictive AI-powered security (Norwest Venture Partners). Since AI and ML startups cut across verticals (analytics, fintech, health, adtech, security, etc), it’s easier to group them under the “machine intelligence” umbrella, coined by Shivon Zillis , a partner at Bloomberg Beta.

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Tech Diversity & Inclusion Allies at SXSW

Austin Startup

Brunner (@heatherjbrunner) | Twitter Preston James Co-founder & CEO DivInc Preston is at the center of everything Diversity & Inclusion in Austin. An early Human Rights Campaign board member and longtime Austin LGBTQ leader, Eugene co-chaired President Obama’s & the DNC’s LGBTQ Leadership Council.