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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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. credit terms), a rise in daily sales outstanding, or DSO, affects the cash flows of local businesses. If you can hold less stock without adversely affecting sales, this can reduce DSO.

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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 Recent developments in applications have rendered the firewall outdated and incapable of deciphering the good and trusted from the bad traffic.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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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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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 8, 2023

Keeping up with trends is the reality show of the e-commerce world, which is constantly developing, gaining a significant market share, and driving online sales. According to the Adjust and Sensor Tower report, in 2021, m-commerce accumulated 54% of all e-commerce sales worldwide, whose market exceeds $3.5 Only in 2021, 72.9%

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

If you’re looking to update your knowledge in these areas, wish to network with thought leaders in the industry, come away with some ideas that you can implement for your own businesses or simply grow your contacts and sales leads, do check Click Asia Summit 2012 out. You can register for the event here.

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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

OCTOBER 14, 2011

” Global Money Flow – From the West to Asia. It was also evident that Asia is becoming the darling for technology innovation, and is increasingly attracting the attention of financiers – venture capitalists, angel investors etc – from all over the world. ” The flow is not limited to money as well.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 7, 2011

In a developer conference today in Singapore, online social networking giant Facebook made its strongest indication yet of its intention to better engage developers in Asia and Southeast Asia.

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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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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 18, 2012

As a startup in Asia, the top 2 markets to start from are China , and India. Hence, a Singaporean founder will find it easier to execute in the 3rd key market that is the MENASSEA region (Middle East, North Africa and South/Southeast Asia). You are either a sales or product oriented startup company when you first start.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 30, 2017

Jason Bissell is General Manager of Asia Pacific and Japan, Talend and Calvin Hoon is Regional VP for Sales, Asia Pacific for Talend. 1] “The Data of Things: How Edge Analytics and IoT go Hand in Hand,” September 2015. [2] 2] Forbes article by Bernard Marr, “ Will Analytics on the Edge be the Future of Big Data ?”,

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 4, 2012

Southeast Asia has been seeing massive uptake and usage of mobile devices – Singapore alone is one of the most wired countries with a smartphone penetration of over 70% – it certainly makes sense for Yahoo! “We ‘s Head of Sales Strategy, Southeast Asia.

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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. Today, the proliferation of information within companies is uncontrollable, just like it was on the Web.

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Version One Ventures

JULY 2, 2019

Blockstack announced that it intends to raise $50 million in a token sale that would leverage the SEC’s Regulation A+ crowdfunding exemption. Coinbase expanded its cryptocurrency Visa Debit Cards across Europe and also welcomed 11 countries in Latin America and Asia. We couldn’t be more proud of this team.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2016

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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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 Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

They probably won’t respond well to high pressure sales tactics, information overload, or bribes. The reach is very broad, however, with 30 branches worldwide covering over 80 countries in Europe, North America, South America, Africa, Asia and Australasia, and over 120,000 members worldwide. Angel investors are people too.

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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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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 4, 2014

If there’s a sure sign that shows how interest in online flash sales have waned, it’s how many daily deal sites have either deadpooled or pivoted away from that particular business model. “Initially, our main focus was on flash sales which worked well as a USP because these were deals you could not find elsewhere. .

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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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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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Diego Basch

JULY 12, 2019

If you are interested in hardware innovation, you want to be in Asia. build an execution team wherever convenient (could be Asia, Europe, India, anywhere in the US, who knows). if applicable, establish a Bay Area presence for market development or sales. Hardware is not made here anymore. VCs do not invest in hardware.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Inbound marketing service provider HubSpot recently released its first ever State of Inbound Report for Asia – which surveyed some 400 marketing and sales professionals at virtually all levels and across all industries in Asia to compile some of the most comprehensive analysis on online marketing in this part of the world.

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Asia Las Vegas Marketing Technical Review 100

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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Hippoland

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

It’s one thing to hear from other people that Southeast Asia (SEA) is up-and-coming, but it was totally another thing to go there and talk with so many people about the future. Here’s my take on B2B – if you look at the US ecosystem, most of the high flying B2B companies got to their level of growth because of fast sales cycles.

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Hippoland

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

It’s one thing to hear from other people that Southeast Asia (SEA) is up-and-coming, but it was totally another thing to go there and talk with so many people about the future. Here’s my take on B2B – if you look at the US ecosystem, most of the high flying B2B companies got to their level of growth because of fast sales cycles.

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Asia Indonesia B2B Singapore 48

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Here are just a few things you might look for: Reducing risk in young companies Bringing innovation to the enterprise Designing and running experiments Customer development strategies All conference passes are on sale right now, and you can compare them here.

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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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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

JULY 18, 2013

To achieve Youtility, one should consider three different facets: 1) Self-Serve Information - Customers prefer to help themselves to information prior to purchase rather than talk to a sales person. This can be served through mobile friendly content and apps, especially in Asia with some 2.9 In fact, shoppers in 2011 need 10.4

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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 grew sales by 28% in 2009, while most companies were hunkered down and losing share. In the same year, Lego's profits soared 63% as they expanded their initiatives and operations in Asia and Europe. Amazon, for example , “grew up” in the last recession by continuing to expand their range of products and focused on automation.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 29, 2013

by Meng Weng Wong, co-founder and social engineer at JFDI Asia. Hero mentors” have exited their businesses through a trade sale or IPO, sometimes multiple times; they offer inspiration to your team and coaching on strategy and tactics. Do we understand the conversion mechanics of our sales FUNNEL? We can’t deal with that.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

They were wrapping up participation in an accelerator program and Ben was planning to move back to Chicago to build the company there, having previously worked at Groupon before moving on to other tech companies in Asia, as well as a brief time in California.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 20, 2017

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. Rule #3: Partner, borrow, and share. Not anymore.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 23, 2014

Timo Rein is the cofounder & CEO of Pipedrive , and was previously the cofounder of Vain & Partners - the leading Sales Training company in the Baltics. If you’re reading this, there’s a good chance that you’re an American, and that means you don’t know how good you have it. Forgive my pessimism – it’s not all bad.

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