David Teten

MARCH 5, 2021

All of the 40 companies’ 92 founders were male. based founders, 35 were white* American; four were white immigrant/first generation, from France, Ukraine, Russia and Iran; and four were Indian immigrant/first generation. Of the 19 Western Europe/Israel-based founders, all were white. Of the 43 U.S.-based

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Just a week after Tech in Asia ( Techinasia.com ) completed its acquisition of fellow Singapore-based blog SGEntrepreneurs (SGE) for an undisclosed sum, the startup and technology blog today announced that it has also acquired Indonesia-based gaming blog GameSaku from Apps Foundry. In the News acquisition Asia GamesInAsia.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

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. In the News Asia Pacific digital marketing Singapore social analytics social media Socialbakers'

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Brandanew

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

South-Asia focused publishing house, Sambasivan and Parikh is a newly minted merger between two houses, Yali Books and Modern Marigold books. We spoke to founders, Ambika and Suhani to learn about their journey and the industry growth they have witnessed. These are women-led publishing houses committed to finding diverse stories.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 13, 2020

by Manni Sidhu, Co-founder and CEO of Coleegs , and William Gilchrist , Founder and CEO of Konsyg. A new challenge has bloomed for founders and managers in the Covid-19 era –how do they set key performance indicators (KPIs) for the years ahead? Founders should focus on stability. Will our funding dry out?

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2023

The last few months have been an unprecedented time for entrepreneurs and startup founders on the market. While the city is small in comparison to other major European destinations, many successful startup founders have ranked it among the likes of London or Paris.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 14, 2013

After last year’s successful Startup Asia Jakarta held in Bandung Jakarta, organizer and one of Asia’s most influential startup and technology blogs TechinAsia.com has announced that its signature conference Startup Asia will be returning to Jakarta on November 21 and 22, 2013 at Plaza Bapindo.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 14, 2017

Reddington, president, FedEx Express Asia Pacific. Marketing products into international markets is not a simple task”, says Julio Oliveto, founder of Livre, an innovative wheelchair-tricycle company in Brazil. I’d never thought an investment at the start would make such a difference”, said Jessica Krauter, co-founder of Buah.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 23, 2014

The post Startup founders in Southeast Asia, it’s time to step up appeared first on The Next Web. Asia Entrepreneur News' The service solves a universal problem for companies but it happens that it was built in Ghana, where the internet penetration rate is just 40 percent. The Dropifi story got me thinking about.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 16, 2013

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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YoungUpstarts

MAY 10, 2015

This year’s instalment of banking and financial technology conference Next Bank Asia will be taking place on May 27-28 in Singapore with the theme of “Tracking the Digital Shift”, where participants will be engaged on topics surrounding disruptive technologies relevant to the Asian financial sector.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 9, 2013

But newly-launched Asia-based online wine marketplace WineFamily instead aims to invite licensed wine retailers across the region to create virtual stores in an Etsy-style platform and sell directly online to consumers in Asia. But easy online access to a large portfolio of wines will likely be the key draw for consumers in Asia.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 18, 2013

Singapore-based F&B veteran Michel Lu earlier this week launched Revolver Asia , a boutique corporate advisory that looks to provide business incubation and acceleration for startup lifestyle businesses in the food and beverage sector.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2011

One of the best part of my jobs as a technology journalist is getting to hear founders' stories. For his part Matthew Wise wondered what it would have been like to hear stories from founders like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates during their early years. Sometimes these are stories that, in turn, end up in the articles I write. Discuss.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2021

Joe Felter , retired Army Colonel; and former deputy assistant secretary of defense for South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Oceania; and William J. Tom Bedecarré , the founder and CEO of AKQA, the leading digital advertising agency. Perry Fellow at Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation. He runs H4X Labs.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 11, 2012

According to a statement from LBMA , Singapore was chosen as its new Asia hub due to the country’s high smartphone penetration and rich cross-section of LBS players from retailers, agencies, advertisers and media buyers, to software and services providers and wireless companies.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

The Startup Arena competition, part of Penn Olson ‘s two-day Startups in Asia Singapore conference, saw nineteen startups from all over Asia battle it out, with Singapore-based social collaborative learning platform Teamie emerging victorious.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Online platform for Asia’s tech community Tech in Asia will round off its highly vaunted Tech In Asia Conference series for this year with Tech In Asia Jakarta 2015 , which will take place on 11 and 12 November 2015 at Balai Kartini. More speakers will be confirmed closer to date.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

Joe Felter retired Army Colonel and former deputy assistant secretary of defense for South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Oceania. Tom Bedecarré the founder and CEO of AKQA, the leading digital advertising agency. Steve Weinstein 30-year veteran of Silicon Valley technology companies and Hollywood media companies.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

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. Key Insights. Shazam (GSB, Haas).

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Techventure 2011 – one of Asia’s topmost events for the venture capital community to engage with the latest technology entrepreneurs organized by Asiasons WFG and presented by National Research Foundation (NRF) and Singapore Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (SVCA) – will celebrate its 15th year on October 13 and 14.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 3, 2014

by Jay Eum, co-founder and Managing Director of TransLink Capital. At one time, expanding into Asia was considered a luxury — a feat attainable only by the largest and most well-heeled companies in the country. In Asia, “face time” is much more important. 2: Pick the right entry point. 4: Reputation matters.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 11, 2015

Reddington, president, FedEx Express Asia Pacific. Christy Ng, founder of Malaysian shoe design SME Christy Ng Shoes, has two dedicated members of staff to manage the company’s presence on Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest. “We By Dr. Karen M. Remember, you’re the newbie! 5] [link]. [6]

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The Next Web

MAY 26, 2014

Pieter Walraven is the co-founder of Pie, a Singapore-based SaaS startup. As an Asia-based SaaS business founder, I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve been asked: “Why did you base your startup in Asia, and not the US?” Asia Entrepreneur' It’s an appropriate question. This story continues at The Next Web.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 7, 2013

E-commerce in Asia is big , and rapidly growing. And judging by the newly announced winner of Tech in Asia ‘s Startup Arena winner Lots of Buttons , it can also grow in pretty quirky ways. Hong Kong-based Lots of Buttons beat out 19 other impressive (mostly Asia-based) startups with a business model that revolves around buttons.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2012

Companies in Asia and Eastern Europe can still provide direct cost reductions of up to 75%. The typical software startup these days is a one or two person operation, founder and co-founder, who do the work themselves on the first product with no salary. Cost factors.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 26, 2014

There are plenty of untapped opportunities and thrilling startups hiding around the world who just need to be discovered,” says Pierre-Alain Masson, Seedstars World co-founder and jury member. Events & Happenings Asia competition Seedstars World Singapore startup'

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 3, 2012

Beepmo ‘s mobile application can be thought of as a Foursquare for LinkedIn – during the period of the conference, Next Bank Asia attendees can use Beepmo to view event details, speaker lists, events schedules as well as utilize its social discovery features to check out the professional profiles of other nearby attendees nearby.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 2, 2013

After a series of successful startup events in Singapore, and Jakarta and Bandung in Indonesia last year, Asia-based online technology news site TechinAsia will be kicking off Startup Asia Singapore ‘s second edition later in April this year.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 16, 2015

Twitter last week announced that it has opened its office in Singapore, officially designating it as its headquarters for the Asia Pacific region. Co-founder Jack Dorsey will replace Costolo on an interim basis.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 6, 2013

. “We wanted the inaugural conference to bring together speakers, practitioners and delegates to learn and discuss about how crowdsourcing and open innovation can play a key role in driving business successes, whether it’s about increasing productivity or revenue growth,” says Epi Ludvik Nekaj , CEO and founder of Crowdsourcing Week.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 27, 2013

Crowdfunding platforms for startups have been lacking in this part of the world – there’s no version of StartupValley , Fundable or Startup Stock Exchange in Asia, for example. Shanghai, China-based SeedAsia was officially launched in mid May as Asia’s first online equity funding platform for Asia-based technology startups.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 4, 2012

by Elisha Tan, founder of Learnemy. Seeing all the pitches at the recent DEMO Asia , it’s not difficult to see there were only a handful of female founders around. We this question to three female founders from Indonesia, Philippines and Singapore – it is difficult to start up being a woman? Being Female Helps.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 22, 2014

Across Asia Pacific, the average number of days for an invoice to be paid rose from 48 to 56, compared to the same period in the previous year. China trades with the lowest number of open accounts in Asia, partly because its exports are in such high demand, and partly because China suppliers are short of working capital.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 27, 2013

Started out of a desire to bridge the traditional, seasonal delays between the runways of those fashion capitals to the high streets of Southeast Asia, and bring them in at much more accessible prices. Born and raised in Malaysia, the London-based Anuar-Mancini will shuttle between the fashion capital and Southeast Asia to run her business.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Of this, 54-percent, or 480 million people, live in the Asia-Pacific region. But some help is coming – the Asia Water-for-Life Project aims to provide the daily drinking water needs of 100,000 people across six countries. 900 million people in the world lack access to safe drinking water.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Pieter Walraven is the co-founder of Pie, a Singapore-based startup building messaging for work. What do you get when you combine Asia’s fast-growing economies and the latest trends in enterprise software? billion of capital in the first 6 months of 2014, Asia-based VCs have been slow to jump on. A rare blue ocean opportunity.

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