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Power To The People – Creating Trust In Data With Collaborative Governance

YoungUpstarts

Just think of the turmoil caused by the dawning of the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) era, with employees demanding to use their beloved, personal mobile phones or tablets for work. Now even more IT agitations are on the way, once again being generated by employee demand. They must adopt a model of collaborative governance.

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How to raise money for your startup from VCs and investors in Asia

The Next Web

The company is one of the largest VC–backed startups in Southeast Asia, having raised over $60M in funding. We’ve asked him to give us some insight into starting, building, and funding a company across Asia. Asia has far fewer VC firms and institutional investors, each of which invests a far smaller amount of capital.

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The Rise Of Cloud Computing

YoungUpstarts

It delivers on-demand, self-servicing capacity so as to allow users to run applications through a simple administrative console. The Cloud Community Comprises both Small and Big Players. Governments adopting the use of the Cloud. In addition to small businesses, cloud adoption by governments has been growing in the Asia region.

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Bankless Banking Is Ready For Its Close-Up

YoungUpstarts

“This will require many partners – credit card companies, banks, microcredit institutions, the United Nations, foundations and community leaders. However, the vast majority of bankless adults live in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and India. Expectations rise, then, faster than governments can deliver.”.

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Think you’ve got a strategy to enter the Chinese market? Think twice

The Next Web

Market demand for this sector is best seen in the rapid growth of Xiaomi , a Chinese cell phone manufacturer who reported online sales of 100,000 mobile phones in 90 seconds for its sub-1000 yuan phone (about $130 US). US startups can also gain a foothold with the Chinese government through strategic partnerships. Cultural immersion.

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Modi and Ma

thebarefootvc

For years, China has been the darling of the international investment community. The world has watched government policies and infrastructure spur unprecedented economic growth – from 1978-2013, China’s economy grew at an average of 9.5% Enter Modi. However, Modi’s election could be a turning point.

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Out of the Crisis #27: Eren Bali of Carbon Health on public health, COVID vaccinations, and working as a unified society to solve problems

Startup Lessons Learned

So I think one of those patients went to ER and then got tested by the CDC at a community hospital, and was considered one of them. I think it was considered the first community spread patient. I think that another one was really kind of partnering with local governments on this part and trying to help them.