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

YoungUpstarts

As a startup in Asia, the top 2 markets to start from are China , and India. Hence, a Singaporean founder will find it easier to execute in the 3rd key market that is the MENASSEA region (Middle East, North Africa and South/Southeast Asia). MENASSEA includes countries below. [Tip: Consumer Facing B2C.

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Q&A Platform Drumo To Drum Up City Discovery In Australia and Asia

YoungUpstarts

Drumo is the first of such service – somewhat a mash-up of location-based check-in service Foursquare and question-and-answer platform Quora – to launch in selected cities in Asia and Australia.

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Facebook Advertising / Marketing: Best Metrics, ROI, Business Value

Occam's Razor

Focus on the fact that this was the launch of a powerful new new product via a continent-wide rebranding campaign using massive online and offline media buys. The Client could still do massive media buys (TV! It is always so cool to run marketing campaigns in large homogenous markets (like Europe, Asia, or large chunks of the US).

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[Singapore] SingTel Innovation Exchange Introduces myBusiness Techblog

YoungUpstarts

SingTel Innovation Exchange (Six) – the partner development program of Singapore-headquartered Asia telecommunications provider SingTel – has launched myBusiness techblog , an online information resource on business, innovation and technology, targeted at small and medium enterprises (SMEs).

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Transportation, On-Demand And The Asian Economy – Asian Horizons

YoungUpstarts

The on-demand economy may have been spurred by the big names that have frequent mentions in social media or otherwise: Uber, Airbnb and the whole shebang. With Grab in focus, we realize that Uber has been trying to spread themselves out for a while in Asia now. The Force Awakens. You can find Samar on Twitter and LinkedIn. .

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500 Startups unveils its Fall 2012 accelerator lineup: More international and more sh*t founders say

The Next Web

LaunchGram: aggregate news service about products and launches coming soon in verticals such as movies, electronics, video games, and cars. Qual Canal: service that allows you to track conversations about TV shows in social media. Iconfinder: site for icons. iDreamBooks: the Rotten Tomatoes for books. Fake it before you make it.”

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Groupon Getting Pummeled Daily in the Israeli Deal Market, BUY2 Leads

VC Cafe

According to daily deal aggregator site Tavo.co.il , BUY2 has a 17% Israeli coupon market share, and Deal Hayom has 7%. BUY2 is owned by Netex and Mako, which are part of the Keshet Media Group, one of Israel’s largest media companies. A major aspect of the Israeli daily deal space are the daily deal aggregators.