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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). You are either a sales or product oriented startup company when you first start.

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How To Choose A Market For Your Startup Or Small Business

crowdSPRING Blog

Let’s illustrate with an example – using a fictional new online marketplace for the purchase and sale of art. For example, approximately one-half of the art market worldwide is auction sales. The other half is commercial gallery sales. Commercial gallery sales? Online sales account for 10 percent.”

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

Occam's Razor

I can see the correlation, but the conclusion implies a causality that may or may not be there ("the product sales exceeded all internal projections!"). From that analysis, they could identify the incremental sales in country X compared to Y, Z and A. But not, ever, in aggregate.]. Facebook works. Newspapers!

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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%. Here is some data from August 6, 2011: Israeli deal site Facebook Friends # of Sales Cost Revenue (in NIS) buy2.co.il A major aspect of the Israeli daily deal space are the daily deal aggregators.

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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

Cracking the Code

Only after reaching $1M in CMRR should you consider hiring European sales and services execs behind customer demand. Save Asia for post-IPO Single instance, multi-tenant, single datacenter - Have only one version of the code in production. . Labels: SaaS , sales and marketing , software. Posted by Philippe Botteri. at 11:09 AM.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter March 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

Ratiopharm, a privately-owned subsidiary of German holding company VEM, was founded in 1973 and has annual sales of about $8.6 The British mobile payments and messaging aggregator will become part of Amdocs’ OpenMarket US mobile transactions hub. Teva, Israel’s largest company, has a market value of about $56 billion.

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The 10 laws of SaaS unveiled at Bessemer CEO Summit

Cracking the Code

This introduction was also the opportunity to illustrate the amazing growth of our software and saas portfolio in the past years, with aggregated revenues reaching $1.2B As soon as you’ve climbed the Sales Learning Curve, begin ramping your sales force by hiring renewal-oriented account managers. Save Asia for post-IPO.