YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 13, 2020

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? 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? How do we achieve our intended goals?

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 28, 2012

Asia, you’re fired. No no, this is not some sick joke about failing Asian economies and massive corporate retrenchments – instead, Asia will see soon its own edition of hit reality TV series, “The Apprentice”, in which contestants competed for a job as an apprentice to billionaire American Donald Trump.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 11, 2020

If you can’t measure it you can’t manage it. If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it. Mid-term, Limited Use of Force: The year is 2025, Taiwan has yet to budge on the sale of microchips. The right types of capabilities/platforms to pre-position in the Asia-Pacific. 1 is measurement.

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Technical Review Taiwan Technology Design 354

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 7, 2016

by Roger Chen, Vice President, Asia for GoDaddy. The recent Black Friday sales numbers were simply phenomenal. Prior to GoDaddy, he spent 6 years at Yahoo where he last served as the VP of Product Management, led PM and Design teams for Asia across Media, Search, e-Commerce, Mobile, Listings, Partnerships, and Custom Solutions.

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Asia Mobile China Technical Review 100

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 15, 2017

by David Nagrosst, head of sales for Cyxtera Technologies in Asia Pacific, Australia and Japan. Recent developments in applications have rendered the firewall outdated and incapable of deciphering the good and trusted from the bad traffic. Without a doubt, the firewall era has come to an end. The onset of death.

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Security Software Review Technical Review API 140

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 16, 2018

by Keiichiro Nozaki, Regional Marketing Architect/Evangelist of Asia Pacific, China, and Japan for F5 Networks. However, it wasn’t until 1983 when the first commercially viable mobile phones went on sale in the U.S. A century ago, we had the industrial revolution. It transformed how we manufactured, well, everything.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

by Marek Danyluk, managing partner at Space Executive. With venture capitalists around the world shifting their focus to Asia, here are 5 ways the surge in venture capital fundraising is shaking up the startup landscape in the region. In May, the Indonesian on-demand motorbike startup Go-Jek managed to raise $1.2

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

The forecast also predicted that its 2014 sales were going to be equally uncompetitive. Widely, the blame as to what prompted the nosedive was being laid at the doorsteps of a new long-term growth strategy envisioned by the company’s top management— Infosys 3.0. But our managers didn’t get it. So what went wrong?

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

by Marek Danyluk, managing partner at Space Executive. Asia was one region where candidate Trump most promised – or threatened – to reshape policy. The agreement will “serve as a foundation for building a broader free-trade area” across Asia, Taro Kono, Japan’s foreign minister, said in a statement. TPP Measures.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 20, 2017

Based on research gathered by MIT Technology Review , Asia’s business landscape is poised not only to benefit greatly from the rise of artificial intelligence but also (play a major roll in helping?) Jason Bissell is General Manager of Asia Pacific and Japan, Talend and Calvin Hoon is Regional VP for Sales, Asia Pacific for Talend.

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Artificial Inteligence Asia Technical Review United States 113

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 14, 2011

The hope is to get even more experienced investors and entrepreneurs to invest in local startups and provide them with systematic management guidance and mentorship. “The incubator managers have been actively making their investments in a good number of high quality startups,” says Dr Francis Yeoh, the CEO of NRF.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 11, 2015

Reddington, president, FedEx Express Asia Pacific. Different social networks attract different audiences,” says Allison Butala, Herschel Supply’s social media manager. We do all our social media management in-house – from monitoring and listening, to deciding what content will be engaging for our followers,” she says.

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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. The new regional headquarters will be home to a wide range of business functions, including sales, partnerships, marketing, HR, finance, user services, legal, policy, and trust & safety.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 4, 2014

In a sweeping expose on the dynamic forces shaping the “New East”, Ben Simpfendorfer’s “ The Rise of the New East: Business Strategies for Success in a World of Increasing Complexity ” provides an in-depth view of how the economic resurgence of Asia and the Middle East are changing global markets.

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Technical Review United Arab Emirates Saudi Arabia China 171

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 30, 2017

For example, sensors built into a train or stop lights that provide intelligent monitoring and management of traffic should be powerful enough to raise the alarm to nearby fire or police departments based on their analysis of the local surroundings. The architectural design of “things” should consider built-in analysis.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 10, 2017

We’re all experiencing the rise of a growing number of cloud applications coming through sales, marketing, HR, operations or finance to complement centrally designed, legacy IT apps, such as ERP, data warehousing or CRM. Digital and mobile applications connect IT systems to the external world.

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Government Technical Review Asia Japan 113

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

They probably won’t respond well to high pressure sales tactics, information overload, or bribes. It boasts 595 member-managed groups and VCs, 30,203 investors, and 2,900 new company applications a month. Angel investors are people too. Angel Capital Association (ACA).

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 8, 2014

More often than not, it will prove to be almost impossible to consistently be able to manage the device type(s) that your users use to access your mobile app(s). At some point, coherently managing increasing numbers of code-bases becomes an exercise in futility requiring ever higher costs, skills and time.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 26, 2017

In the world of e-commerce, online sales are the bread and butter for firms of any size. We spoke to Gogoprint about customer acquisition processes, and in particular the importance of sales teams for B2B-oriented e-commerce. In many cases, the backbone of B2B e-commerce start-ups is a strong sales team.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Ben Horowitz ’s book The Hard Thing About Hard Things is driving the conversation around startup management this year. Bob Sutton is a Stanford professor and the author of several best-selling books on standout management, including Scaling Up Excellence , an investigation of high-growth companies. Eric Ries will interview him.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 10, 2018

E-commerce is exploding in Asia, with e sales for Asia-Pacific expected to total US$1.37 of total e-commerce sales in the region and 494 million buyers. While numbers for Asia Pacific can be skewed by China, it’s too simplistic to put this growth down to merely the China factor and its huge domestic market.

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Asia China Global Sales 145

Up and Running

JUNE 4, 2019

By 2021, global B2C ecommerce sales are expected to surpass $4.5 If you don’t, your competitors are lining up to scoop up those sales. Aside from direct to consumer online sales, shipping and fulfillment challenges can also have an impact on online retails who also sell their products through larger retailers. In the U.S.,

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Software Review Technical Review eCommerce B2C 75

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

Sales management. Many people don’t think of sales jobs as being especially lucrative. What they should remember is that sales jobs will often be more or less lucrative depending on the state of the local economy and the nature of the market. The question is: do you have the right timing?

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 28, 2016

By Kurt Bilafer, Global Vice President Sales & Success at WePay. As a sales leader, my professional life is filled with quotas, metrics and dashboards. Early in my career, I was always optimizing for percentage of quota attained, which is a typical sales metric and usually tied to your compensation. Optimizing to quota.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 30, 2013

The company is one of the largest VC–backed startups in Southeast Asia, having raised over $60 million in funding. This is the second part of a four-part series that will provide insight into starting, building, and funding a company across Asia. Another learning I’ve come across the hard way is to stay away from ‘sales consultants.’.

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Asia Operations Indonesia Thailand 129

The Next Web

JANUARY 17, 2014

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). Asia Entrepreneur Insider Analysis and Opinion Investigations'

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China Marketing Asia Mobile 128

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 20, 2017

These companies are willing to take prudent risks and know how to manage risk. In the past, businesses needed to own or take responsibility for every aspect of their value chain, from research to development to operations to sales and marketing. Alibaba is the most valuable company in Asia, but it has no inventory. Not anymore.

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Technical Review Malaysia Agile Employee 147

Steve Blank

AUGUST 23, 2010

We spent two days of analyzing and exploring their customer discovery visits just completed across South America, Africa and Asia. We’re Not Here for a Sales Call. Disabusing the audience of the notion that the visit is a sales call is vital to the customer discovery mission. But we are not here for a sales call.&#.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2020

They outline and give some positive recommendations to counter the key organizational impediments to fast transformation that I see all too often, even in businesses with top management committed to first-mover speed and agility: Passive resistance to change from within the organization.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2011

I’m looking for somebody who can sell, but not better than our head of sales. You want somebody who can do handset deals in the US, Europe & Asia. You want somebody who can raise $15 million to build out your R&D, business development and sales organizations. Are you looking for a Phd wireless chip designer?

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

by Zakir Ahmed, General Manager of Asia at Oracle NetSuite. Treknology 3 decided to implement NetSuite OneWorld to manage critical business processes, including inventory management, shipping and customer relationship management. Forge strong partnerships. Where will you find staff?

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 17, 2017

In the past year, we have seen some of the largest data breaches in history with millions of accounts compromised and the release of personal data such as addresses and telephone numbers for sale on the black market. Have a clear understanding of how personal data is used and managed in your organisation.

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Management Singapore Offshore Intellectual Property 113

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 3, 2024

Martin is a frequent lecturer at Stanford, Wharton and INSEAD, and has advised leaders across the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia. He was a lab manager back in what was called Xerox Spark. He talked about how one of his biggest jobs as a lab manager was to convert class one disagreements to class two disagreements.

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Startup Cofounder Technical Review Founder 59

Berkonomics

JULY 13, 2023

EMEA, Asia, Latin America. Assign our development manager to localize design and oversee the needed enhancements to our product and support materials for each new territory. Assign our development manager to localize design and oversee the needed enhancements to our product and support materials for each new territory.

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David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

However, we’d argue that for most smaller managers who are not brand names, it’s better to be highly identified in your niche than being a generalist. VCs investing abroad or in binational companies, typically with technology based in a 2nd or 3rd tier market, and sales/marketing in a 1st tier market. Further reading.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 15, 2021

Finally, at our top 10, of course you find many of them don’t have an available.com, or if they do – it’s for sale at a hefty price. 11- Inspired by the most beautiful Doe’s (Deer) from Asia. I went on a trip to Japan and came across the most beautiful Doe’s (Deer) from Asia.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Over the last four years, the coal industry has witnessed an ongoing transformation on a global scale – from decreased demand in the US to growing fuel needs in Asia and rising concerns about climate change. She also serves as an advisor for the sales and acquisition of coal-related assets and develops forecasts of U.S.

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