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Why Every Business Needs To Become A Platform, And How To Do It

YoungUpstarts

By Kurt Bilafer, Global Vice President Sales & Success at WePay. Its cloud platform lets sales and marketing teams connect and share information about customers and prospects, and developers have enriched the value of the platform with a host of applications that integrate to the platform and add to its functionality.

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Startup Founders Should Focus on Managing Expectations Before Managing KPIs

YoungUpstarts

The start of a new quarter prompts common questions from start-up founder’s and executives across Asia: What are our revenues and sales targets? We advise founders to get back to the basics, and focus on the following four functions: Sales, Marketing, Management, and Finance. How do we achieve our intended goals? Retention of Staff.

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What We Must Learn from Asia

Both Sides of the Table

Benjamin Joffe (the author), a Frenchman who runs a consultancy in China that tries to help non-Asian investors understand the innovation occurring in Asia as a way to bring ideas to their local markets. He also consults companies in Asia. couponing, vertical social networks, Internet TV, etc.

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12 Entrepreneurs Reveal What They Look Forward To in 2019

Hearpreneur

I am really looking forward to diversifying my marketing agency into new verticals. Marketing agencies are known for having to lay off good people when they lose big accounts. 9- Grow my business into a more global company. Thanks to Veronica Hanson, Vacay Visionary ! #6- 6- Diversity. Photo Credit: Wesley Donehue.

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CEO Shaking Up the AI Industry With a Robotic Reading Companion for Kids

Hearpreneur

He has served as a teacher for the Stanford ME310 Global New Product Design Innovation Program and has also been recognized as one of the top 30 Designers Under 30 in 2015 by Forbes magazine. I felt this was a good time to use my experience in human-computer interaction to build AI products that can be recognized by the market and users.

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The Next 10 Years Of Infocomm Technology

YoungUpstarts

Over the next few decades, this young cohort would comprise a rising proportion of citizens in Asia (31%-40% in Singapore, Korea, Hong Kong and Japan, and more than 51% in Malaysia, Philippines, India and Indonesia). Gens Y , Z (collectively called the “Connected” generation of Gen C ). Macro Trend 2: Urbanization.

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Go Anywhere, Get Anything

Reid Hoffman

Khosrowshahi, who previously served as CEO of Expedia before taking the reins at Uber in 2017, sat down with Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman to discuss the past, present and future of the mobility and delivery business that now operates in 71 countries around the world and employs around 20,000 people globally. Iconversations [guest].

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