YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

It’s been over a decade since Westin left Singapore’s shores; the hotel chain sold off its two properties – The Westin Stamford and The Westin Plaza – to Swissôtel and Raffles Hotel in 2002, after the brand’s own acquisition by Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide in 1998.

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Singapore Asia Technical Review Acquisition 140

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Techventure 2011 – one of Asia’s topmost events for the venture capital community to engage with the latest technology entrepreneurs organized by Asiasons WFG and presented by National Research Foundation (NRF) and Singapore Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (SVCA) – will celebrate its 15th year on October 13 and 14.

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Singapore Private Equity Asia Venture Capital 162

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 4, 2014

In a sweeping expose on the dynamic forces shaping the “New East”, Ben Simpfendorfer’s “ The Rise of the New East: Business Strategies for Success in a World of Increasing Complexity ” provides an in-depth view of how the economic resurgence of Asia and the Middle East are changing global markets.

Technical Review 162

Technical Review United Arab Emirates Saudi Arabia China 162

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 18, 2012

The startup will then look outwards in the region to expand into, either organically or via a partnership, joint venture or acquisition. As a startup in Asia, the top 2 markets to start from are China , and India. Singapore ) where if you become No.1 Regional from day one (RD1). MENASSEA includes countries below. [Tip:

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Max Ventilla took Aardvark from startup to Google acquisition, a case study Eric described in The Lean Startup. Cory Nelson will talk with Eric about how GE has applied the MVP method to its development of very large diesel engines. Now Max is reinventing education through AltSchool , which creates local microschools.

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Lean Fractional CTO Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE 165

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Winning the Wars We Knew Joe Felter, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for South and Southeast Asia, started the class showing excerpts from General MacArthur’s famous Duty, Honor, Country speech given to the Corps of Cadets at West Point in May 1962. If you can’t see the slides click here.

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Technology Afghanistan Iraq Vietnam 397

Hippoland

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

It’s one thing to hear from other people that Southeast Asia (SEA) is up-and-coming, but it was totally another thing to go there and talk with so many people about the future. The interesting thing about the US market is that customer acquisition these days is actually fairly straightforward online now for most customer audiences.

Asia 48

Asia Indonesia B2B Singapore 48

Hippoland

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

It’s one thing to hear from other people that Southeast Asia (SEA) is up-and-coming, but it was totally another thing to go there and talk with so many people about the future. The interesting thing about the US market is that customer acquisition these days is actually fairly straightforward online now for most customer audiences.

Asia 48

Asia Indonesia B2B Singapore 48

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

One of Asia’s biggest regional technology and startup blogs just got bigger – Tech in Asia ( Techinasia.com ) just announced its acquisition of fellow Singapore-based tech blog SGEntrepreneurs (SGE) for an undisclosed sum, entrenching itself as one of the leading English language blogs covering the technology scene in Asia.

Singapore 150

Singapore Asia Merger Cofounder 150

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Over the last four years, the coal industry has witnessed an ongoing transformation on a global scale – from decreased demand in the US to growing fuel needs in Asia and rising concerns about climate change. She also serves as an advisor for the sales and acquisition of coal-related assets and develops forecasts of U.S.

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North Dakota Asia Global Demand 139

YoungUpstarts

MAY 3, 2015

For its initial foray into the Southeast Asia technology space, the startup accelerator will kick off a search for ten technology startups across Southeast Asia to participate its inaugural six-month accelerator program which begins in August 2015. trillion,” says Annie Parker, co-founder at muru - D.

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Singapore Asia Charlotte Silicon Valley 100

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 1, 2011

Our discussion today was around prioritization of the next few critical steps around customer acquisition and validation. Next week, the 1M/1M roundtable will focus on entrepreneurs in East Asia, Australia and New Zealand. As for business model, Jigar wants to sell services like refilling cards. Report Bee. Then Balaganesh S.,

India 119

India Guerilla Entrepreneur New Zealand 119

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

by Zakir Ahmed, General Manager of Asia at Oracle NetSuite. Zakir Ahmed is the general manager of Oracle NetSuite , Asia charged with building and leading the organisation across the region. In this role, he guides a number of high performing teams to bring complete solutions to Oracle NetSuite customers.

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Cloud Small Business Singapore Malaysia 145

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 7, 2011

It was a casual session, and also a way for Rajan to understand the technology (and political) scene in Singapore and Asia. Rajan briefly shared a little about LinkedIn’s history and how he ended up in Asia. Build value, not for acquisition. But Arvind said that acquisition is just one out of many exit options.

Singapore 187

Singapore Asia Entrepreneur Acquisition 187

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Winning the Wars We Knew Joe Felter, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for South and Southeast Asia, started the class showing excerpts from General MacArthur’s famous Duty, Honor, Country speech given to the Corps of Cadets at West Point in May 1962. If you can’t see the slides click here.

Technology 133

Technology Afghanistan Iraq Vietnam 133

venturedig.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

The two major forms of this are CPC (cost per click) and CPA (cost per action or acquisition). In Southeast Asia, specifically countries like Indonesia, Facebook is in hyper-growth mode… right now. Additionally, Southeast Asia is in hyper-growth mode. Display Ads: This is your bread and butter business model.

Social Network 55

Social Network Business Model Networking CPA 55

SiliconHills

JUNE 15, 2017

It’s also the largest cloud-based video surveillance provider in Asia. On Thursday, Eagle Eye Networks announced the acquisition of Panasonic Cloud […] The post Eagle Eye Networks Buys Panasonic Cloud Management Service and Expands into the European Market appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Cloud North America Networking Asia 68

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Asia is smaller but growing as wealth increases in large, urban environments. After a year in the market, MakeSpace was growing rapidly and our biggest issue was CAC (customer acquisition costs) relative to payback period (when we get our marketing investment back) and relative to LTV (lifetime value).

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 26, 2017

We spoke to Gogoprint about customer acquisition processes, and in particular the importance of sales teams for B2B-oriented e-commerce. In Southeast Asia, companies often run into 2 barriers when it comes to doing B2B business: trust, and the role of pre-existing relationships.

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B2B Sales Thailand Malaysia 170

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

. … Due to the relatively small potential contract values in restaurants, startups serving these customer segments have to build very efficient sales teams or online customer acquisition tools to aggregate many of them inexpensively. Who is correct? And how does this impact your new company?

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Small Business Marketing Startup Silicon Valley 110

Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

That if we could get teams to rapidly discover the real problems in the field using Lean methods, and only then articulate the requirements to solve them, could defense acquisition programs operate at speed and urgency and deliver timely and needed solutions.

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Up and Running

JULY 26, 2017

Specifically, in a web app, you can attribute sales more precisely to a certain marketing channel and measure the ROI (return on investment) or CAC (customer acquisition cost) based on the data. percent) and Asia (45.2 That was a particularly wise move as the company is working on expanding its presence in less developed countries.

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Mobile Application Development Web Software Review 81

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 25, 2011

The more skeptical amongst us, of course, may decry that this CSR initiative by Affle is merely one that is but a user acquisition drive masked by philanthropy. Affle ‘s executive director for Southeast Asia Ben Fones conceded that may be the impression some people may go away with when they hear about the initiative.

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Singapore Mobile Asia Campaign 212

SiliconHills

DECEMBER 5, 2013

In another move to expand its reach into the Asia Pacific Region, HomeAway announced its acquisition of Stayz Group, the leading online vacation rental marketplace in Australia. Austin-based HomeAway paid $198 million to Fairfax Digital, owner of Stayz Group, which publishes Stay.com.au, Rentahome.com.au, TakeABreak.com.au

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2017

I was an early employee at PayPal and back in the 2000-2001 timeframe, and we ended up taking a fairly significant amount of strategic investment (tens of millions of $) from various banks in the US, Europe, and Asia. It doesn’t mean it can’t be done, but having say Google as an investor can make it tricky to work with say Apple.

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Strategic Investors Post-Money Valuation Seed Stage Cofounder 120

Version One Ventures

APRIL 23, 2013

Looking back, there were several factors limiting our ability to grow, including: Geographical markets: We had internationalized to five non-English speaking countries in Europe, but felt that conquering Asia was too risky an endeavor for a relatively small company (our platform revenues were in the hundreds of millions of dollars).

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SiliconHills

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Austin-based HomeAway just increased its presence in Asia with the acquisition of Bookabach Limited, a New Zealand-based vacation rental site.

New Zealand 59

New Zealand Asia Texas Australia 59

The Next Web

JANUARY 26, 2014

Jon Yongfook is a serial entrepreneur based in Asia. But compared to other paid acquisition channels such as PPC, a referral program like this can require less ongoing maintenance and result in more high quality users. He started and sold a popular recipe portal, and now runs a virtual assistant software company. Why does it work?

Thailand 167

Thailand Social Network PPC Singapore 167

The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

Over recent years, Quiz have also branched out into a worldwide operation and have now got well over 50 franchises in both Europe and Asia. Fast forward a few decades and the business’s first major acquisition took place in the 60s when the Group moved into Yorkshire. John Looker retired in 1929, but the business didn’t falter.

Asia 98

Asia Europe Austin Naming 98

The Startup Magazine

MAY 15, 2018

Asia is a Leading Innovation Force. Shanghai is now rated the top innovation hub, given the possibilities it offers to young companies, such as strong early-stage funding, simpler talent acquisition, and global interconnectedness. billion in 2017. One such example is Singapore, famous for its stellar performance in the Fintech arena.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Companies like that tend to be great M&A (merger and acquisition) targets, as you cannot repeat it by throwing money or a team as it’ll take time. billion acquisition of app store 91 Wireless is a classic example. Working with the giants is simply unavoidable in China, as they have such a large user base and so much cashflow.

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China Developer Intellectual Property Mobile 122

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

To replace them, employers spend $11,500 average per healthcare employee acquisition cost (20% of the annualized salary plus hiring incentives is considered customary for acquisition cost). A customer acquisition strategy that is pragmatic, and. Bureau of Labor and Statistics - 37.5%

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India Silicon Valley Bootstrapping Incubator 115

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 13, 2012

My other feedback was to focus on one of the three segments, because everything else - from customer acquisition, to merchandising, to PR, to SEO would work better if the segmentation is tighter. A B-to-C business, on the other hand, can use Flipkart's logistics infrastructure, and have a better shot at success. Univect Education Solutions.

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India Entrepreneur Programming Asia 117

andrewchen.co

AUGUST 20, 2012

Given that team acquisitions provide downside protection while the hits drive the real returns, it’s hard for investors behind top teams to lose money. There’s a whole host of companies in the Bay Area, in Asia, and around the world that are investing heavily on mobile.

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Seed Stage Early Stage Mobile Asia 51

BeyondVC

MARCH 14, 2007

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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North America Semantic Africa Acquisition 60

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

A number of investment rounds and acquisitions took place in recent weeks and it’s worth taking note. The round is intended to support Kenshoo’s expansion into France, Germany and Asia. Below is a recap of some of September’s Israeli tech headlines: Investment rounds. The exact details of the deal were not disclosed.

Software Review 138

Software Review Venture Capital Technical Review SEM 138

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Bernard is based in New York, was born in Berlin, has lived in and started companies in Asia and Europe as well as America; he is comfortable with globalization. You cannot use freemium strategies without this type of user experience (and freemium is the first fundamental change to the cost of customer acquisition).

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