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

YoungUpstarts

The first logical step when you are based in Singapore is to start in a market you are most comfortable in conquering. It is logical and sometimes it is the right choice starting from Singapore, sometimes not. There are three market categories that startups from Singapore are likely to address: 1. Regional from day one (RD1).

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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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[Asia] Location-Aware Mobile Advertising Platform Launches In Southeast Asia

YoungUpstarts

Singapore-headquartered location-aware mobile advertising platform AdNear earlier this week announced its foray into the Southeast Asian markets of Malaysia and Indonesia, opening up its platform for advertisers who are looking to enable precision advertising on consumer mobile devices in those countries.

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[Malaysia] Startups Unite To Form Launchpad, An Intern Matching Platform

YoungUpstarts

The startup scenes in Southeast Asia – Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam, among others – have been thriving, attracting scores of students and young graduates who want to be part of their local startup movement. And many of these startups, some flush with cash and others eyeing international expansion, are hiring.

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

My partners and I founded Reel Paper with the goal of adding the positive experience of social responsibility to the simple e-comm purchase of a household staple: toilet paper. Riku is now ready to launch in the US, UK, Singapore, Australia, and Europe! I was determined to be the best business partner he’s ever had.

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The Ezra Klein Show: VC Bill Gurley on Transforming Health Care

abovethecrowd.com

Our firm has had the good fortune to invest in many two-sided networks that used information aggregation, supplier aggregation, and user generated content to attract and inform consumers and resultantly disrupt and change different industries. I want to put a pin in Singapore and come back to it.

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Where Does VC Money Actually Come From? [Flowchart]

View from Seed

This post was originally published on the personal blog of NextView founding partner Lee Hower. Most of the dollars a VC firm invests come from outside limited partner investors (LPs). I believe great entrepreneurs do (and should) seek capital from VCs they think will be great long-term, value added investment partners.

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