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[Review] The Rise Of The New East

YoungUpstarts

The key here is to transfer foreign management expertise and technologies to China while tapping on its huge domestic entertainment market. Beneficiaries include ASEAN mainland cities like Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. Fortunately, there is light at the end of the tunnel.

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Finance Fridays

Feld Thoughts

Simon Zhang spent three years as a financial and tax consultant at Deloitte Canada with a focus on businesses in mining, financial services and technology sectors. His focus was to incubate an internal start-up which is built on state-of-the-art technology, novel business model and innovative products.

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Today’s Tech Savvy Millennials Still Need A Helping Hand To Achieve Their Entrepreneurial Dreams

YoungUpstarts

principles incorporating technologies that are innate to the millennial generation. Businesses and technology are already starting to interact in ways that break conventional boundaries – well-known brands like Grab and AirBnB prove this. Today’s modern businesses are following Industry 4.0

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Accelerator Spotlight: Influencer Direct

View from Seed

For example, Marques Brownlee is one of the most prolific technology reviewers. I grew up in Houston, TX and come from humble beginnings; my mom was a single parent and refugee from Cambodia. Influencers today are leveraging social commerce to sell various print-on-demand products like apparel, mugs, and small accessories.

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My Water Pilgrimage:

Austin Startup

What spending 10 days in a remote village in Nepal has taught me about the role of technology in water sustainability and independence The Origin Story At an early age, my parents instilled in us a sense of empathy for the less fortunate and taught us to be mindful custodians of the world and its precious natural resources.

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How to Find Hundreds of Business Ideas

Up and Running

That’s because they’re fitted with noise-cancelling technology. Like something you might stumble across in Cambodia, perhaps? Another of my favorite products that solves a problem for me are my Bose headphones (mind I don’t have this fancy version). Hello world, goodbye world. ” How do you come up with ideas?

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VC Cafe Turns 9

VC Cafe

We raised over $200,000 so far for Room to Read, helping build 4 schools, 8 libraries and fund 3,000 scholarships for girls to attend school in Nepal, India and Cambodia. are a great validation. Celebrating milestones - 2014 marked the 3rd year of Techbikers , my other labor of love and the best one yet.