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Starting Up In Singapore (Part I) – Product/Market Fit

YoungUpstarts

The startup will then look outwards in the region to expand into, either organically or via a partnership, joint venture or acquisition. However, they tend to be extremely difficult to navigate especially if you do not have a cofounder from and/or experience in that country. In this case, I urge founders to start in the US first (i.e.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

7- I was the victim of a horrible acquisition. I started my business because I was the victim of a horrible acquisition (can you name a good one?). In addition, this horrible acquisition took place while my wife and I were 3 months into our first pregnancy. Thanks to Omid Semino, Diamond Mansion ! #7- Photo Credit: ????Jay

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How we built our investor presentation and raised $2 million

The Next Web

Mikael Cho is the co-founder of ooomf , a network that connects short-term software projects with handpicked developers and designers. Customer Acquisition?—?How Image credit: Shutterstock / Africa Studio. Mikael writes about psychology, startups, and product marketing over on the ooomf blog. Is it growing?

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How Paparide Network leverages the sharing economy to decongest cities

The Startup Magazine

Ayoub Moutiya, co-Founder and CEO of Paparide Network , talks about how he was able to leverage the sharing economy to not only reduce traffic in cities, but also clean-up pollution along the way. Ayoub Moutiya, CEO and Co-Founder of Paparide Network. I was living east side, and my workplace was in Downtown Montréal.

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Building The Machine Podcast Episode 5: Dan Kimerling Deciens Capital

Eric Friedman

Dan is the co-founder of Standard Treasury, a Y Combinator backed company. He is also co-founder and Managing Partner of Deciens Capital, an early stage investment fund. Previously, he was the COO of digital gift card start-up Giftly from its inception in 2010 to its acquisition by Giftcards.com in 2013.

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Microsoft’s next battleground – wireless

BeyondVC

The acquisition of Tellme will bolster Microsoft’s existing speech capabilities, bringing both immediate and longer-term value to our customers and partners.”. But although about 70% of the population now has access to the internet in North America, the figure is just 11% in Asia and less than 4% in Africa.

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The iconic VC-Backed founders are all White & Asian men. So why invest in diversity?

David Teten

(co-written with Katherine Boe Heuck , a MBA candidate at MIT Sloan (class of 2022); past intern at Versatile VC ; and a current intern at Metaprop NYC.). All of the 40 companies’ 92 founders were male. Of the 19 Western Europe/Israel-based founders, all were white. Of the 43 U.S.-based Of course, this dataset is incomplete.