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5 Mistakes We Made While Growing A Startup In Southeast Asia

YoungUpstarts

In March 2016, Rosanne Hortensius left the Netherlands to launch online couponing platform Saleduck in Southeast Asia. As the company’s Commercial Manager, Hortensius was armed with the responsibility of setting up the office’s headquarters in Kuala Lumpur as well as growing the local team. Giving the wrong company perks and benefits.

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See More than 120 Speakers and Mentors at The Lean Startup Conference

Startup Lessons Learned

As the emeritus Chief Technology Officer of the United States, he still connects government and Silicon Valley. He’ll talk about making a profit and making a difference in a conversation with New Media Ventures’ Christie George. Todd Park convened the team that saved Obamacare.

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[Singapore] Crowdsourcing Week – Crowdsourcing Soon To Come Of Age In Asia

YoungUpstarts

For example Michael Thatcher , Chief Technology Officer – Public Sector Asia at Microsoft , provided some insights about how shared data benefits transparency and participation, and how that gives rise to new products and services. “ Elance believes in the power and nature of the online crowd.

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[Asia] Online Social Stay Marketplace travelmob Continues Push Into Asia

YoungUpstarts

The company recently introduced an iOS app that helps hosts to manage their reservations and listings quickly, as well as assist travelers in booking their accommodations from more than 20,000 properties across Asia Pacific while on the move. In the News Asia Asia Pacific online marketplace social stay travelmob vacation rental'

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[Asia] Kark Mobile Education Lands Funding From Indonesia’s Indeosource

YoungUpstarts

“We are delighted to have this support, which gives us the ability to continue building our product and reinforces what we have believed all along– that games have a great future in the educational industry,” says Bullitt Sezaria, founder and CTO of Kark Mobile Education , which is currently participating in the JFDI–Innov8 2012 Bootcamp , a business (..)

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Significant Percentage Of Global Email Traffic Is Spam: Cloudmark

YoungUpstarts

Asia Pacific countries rated fairly low on the global scale when it came to volume of email spam sent, but they do exhibit a high incidence of spam among total emails sent (i.e. Here’s a look at how five Asia Pacific countries rate: COUNTRY. they send less emails, but a large proportion of those can be spam).

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Businesswomen’s Sustainability Leadership Summit

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

To close, Judith Estrin gave us a talk on having sustainable technology, not necessarily related to sustainability as in green, but how to make sure innovation continues to happen. I was intrigued by her bio, CTO at Cisco, currently or previously a board member at Disney, FedEx, and Sun Microsystems. Gotta love that!