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How The Covid-19 Pandemic Boosted Adoption Of Emerging Technologies In Southeast Asia

YoungUpstarts

by Shaun Djie, Co-Founder & COO of Digix. Southeast Asia is at an intersection of change where many traditional industries are forced to adapt to the new normal, beckoning a new digital industrial revolution. Known as the world’s mobile economy hotspot , Southeast Asia has been a hotbed for championing emerging technologies.

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Stop Thinking And Acting Local: Small Businesses Seeking Growth Should See Themselves As Global Enterprises

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Reddington, president, FedEx Express Asia Pacific. Overcoming Challenges of Growing Globally. But going global can be an intimidating prospect for some. Marketing products into international markets is not a simple task”, says Julio Oliveto, founder of Livre, an innovative wheelchair-tricycle company in Brazil.

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The iconic VC-Backed founders are all White & Asian men. So why invest in diversity?

David Teten

(co-written with Katherine Boe Heuck , a MBA candidate at MIT Sloan (class of 2022); past intern at Versatile VC ; and a current intern at Metaprop NYC.). We reviewed CB Insights’ global list of “40 of the Best VC Bets of all Time.” All of the 40 companies’ 92 founders were male. Of the 43 U.S.-based

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Impact of MBA Education on Global Business Practices

The Startup Magazine

The global business landscape can be dauntingly complex, which is why MBA education serves as such an indispensable guide. In this article, we’ll chart its influence over time on global business practices while keeping its relevance current.

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HBS Entrepreneurs Founded the Most Startup Unicorns of Any MBA Program

View from Seed

Though, this article is not a reflection on the fundamentals of unicorns—rather, I am using them as a proxy for situations in which founders have executed on big ideas. 38 unicorns, or 1 in 4 (24%), have at least one MBA founder. 63 MBA founders are represented among the 157 unicorns. Global Fashion Group (3x HBS, 2x Wharton).

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[Asia] Socialbakers Opens Asia Pacific HQ In Singapore

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Global social media analytics and optimization company Socialbakers has announced the opening of its new Asia-Pacific headquarters based in Singapore. ”By 2017, Asia-Pacific will have the largest social network population worldwide.

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Making Social Media Work For SMEs

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Reddington, president, FedEx Express Asia Pacific. ” In many respects, technology acts as the great leveler, opening up global trade that was once the exclusive preserve of large multinationals. .” Servicing a global customer base means overcoming problems such as time zones, and language and cultural nuances.