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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. Consumer Facing B2C. Indonesia from day one. As a startup in Asia, the top 2 markets to start from are China , and India. Global from day one (GD1).

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: TripAdvisor

Seeing Both Sides

Last week, I wrote about Akamai , a company with strong network effects that successfully transitioned from a single product to build a platform that garners over a billion dollars in revenue and is now a core part of the Internet’s fabric. Going B2C was daunting and not in our core DNA,” Kaufer remarked. Big Data meets travel…in 2000.