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Starting Up In Singapore (Part I) – Product/Market Fit

YoungUpstarts

However, they tend to be extremely difficult to navigate especially if you do not have a cofounder from and/or experience in that country. 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). Global from day one (GD1).

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What Boston’s Top Consumer Tech Leaders Think About Boston’s Consumer Tech Struggles [#BostonB2C Recap]

View from Seed

The invite-only event was attended by 300 of the area’s best tech leaders, founders, product managers, designers, developers, investors, engineers, salesmen and women, and more, all of whom are hard at work in consumer tech. Here’s Mike’s comment: Boston’s B2C problem is one of values.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

We make a point of keeping our records updated in the major data-trackers tracking the VC industry, e.g., CB Insights , Crunchbase , Dow Jones , Mattermark , Palico , Preqin , Pitchbook , and ThomsonReuters , since they are a source of data to LPs and to potential co-investors interested in us. . Pitchbot.vc 3) Originate investments.

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Founder Interview: Richard Lavina Innovating Accounting Services with Taxfyle

The Startup Magazine

The Startup Magazine continues our Founder Interview series with entrepreneur Richard Lavina, Co-Founder and CEO of accounting services platform, Taxfyle. Richard Lavina, CPA, Co-Founder and CEO of Taxfyle. TSM: What is the most important thing you tell other startup founders?

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[Singapore][Event] Regional Startups Shine At JFDI-Innov8 2012 Bootcamp Demo Day

YoungUpstarts

The founders positioned this for Filipino foreign workers, but this can be easily used by incarcerated family members or by the military for personnel on extended overseas missions.). In any case, the founders all felt that the time spent had been worth it. Not a new startup, Fetch Plus was first unveiled officially at Echelon 2011.

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Beyond Lead Gen: How To Optimize B2B Sales Enablement

ConversionXL

Examples: Clearslide , Salespatron (I’m a co-founder) and Brainshark. A 2015 global study of 2000 B2B buyers and sellers by Accenture shows that B2B buyers have high expectations for engagement. This may work in B2C scenarios where the transaction volumes are large and ARPUs are relatively small.

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One platform to rule them all

VC Adventure

Integrate – who today announced an $ 11M Series B financing with Comcast, Liberty Global and Foundry – is one of those rare companies. Founders Hart Cunningham and Jeremy Bloom have been fantastic to work with and together, they’ve built a substantial business.

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