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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Where Should You Raise Money?

ReadWriteStart

First, there are two primary aspects that have to be managed: inventory financing and customer acquisition costs. Next Vin Lim presented Qyzzy.com , which can be succinctly summarized as the Yelp of Malaysia. I asked him about his customer acquisition strategy and heard the word "advertising" a lot: Facebook advertising.

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[Review] The Rise Of The New East

YoungUpstarts

Beyond Lenovo’s famous acquisition of IBM’s PC business, entertainment conglomerate Dalian Wanda bought American cinema operator AMC Entertainment followed by British yacht builder Sunseeker. Through differentiated sourcing, companies can better hedge their risks in the event that the Chinese economy implodes.

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Can A Startup Do OffShore Development? Part 2

prosperati.com

By and large, a lot of it were macro challenges that Malaysia itself faced. The cliches of hiring the best of the best is as true in Malaysia as it is in the US. There must be a healthy acquisition or IPO pipeline in the market. Malaysia unfortunately does not have a good technology IPO pipeline.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: How Do You Catalyze A Region's Entrepreneurship?

ReadWriteStart

Malaysia is trying hard to build a hub and finding it difficult. The bulk of our discussion today was around scaling and customer acquisition strategies. There are pockets of entrepreneurship developing in various European capitals. In India, five of the seven major metros are seeing significant improvement in entrepreneurial energy.

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Why And How Your B2B eCommerce Start-up Should Work On Having A Strong Sales Team

YoungUpstarts

Gogoprint , a leading Southeast Asian online printing company founded in late 2015, has been working hard to do just that in Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore. We spoke to Gogoprint about customer acquisition processes, and in particular the importance of sales teams for B2B-oriented e-commerce.

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Want To Accelerate Small Business Growth? Then Turn To The Cloud.

YoungUpstarts

Since then, Treknology 3 has come a long way, having opened a further four retail stores and two mega-showrooms across Singapore and Malaysia. Zakir has more than 20 years of experience in management, customer acquisition and retention as well as sales leadership across the globe, complemented by a strong understanding of the Asian market.

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McLaren Strategic Ventures Sajan Pillai Discusses the Top Five Trends for Advancing Global Technology in 2022 

The Startup Magazine

McLaren Strategic Ventures, the Sajan Pillai promoted business acceleration platform offers comprehensive business solutions to take small and medium enterprises to a global scale and McLaren Strategic Capital has made some key acquisitions in the deep tech segment in the US and India.