YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2014

”With a growing pipeline of exciting new tech start-ups in Singapore, founders will require funding, experienced mentorship and strong networks to build companies that can compete in worldwide markets. ” In the News investment National Research Foundation Singapore startup'

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 8, 2011

The founders started working in a basement from May this year, putting together mockups and building the site with an off-shore development team. They later brought on Brendan Lowry as a community manager. ” (Editor: I smell a Singapore – or Hong Kong – clone.). Team First, Idea Later.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 4, 2012

Singapore is the best Southeast Asian country to produce and promote social entrepreneurship in the region, according to Mr Mechai Viravaidya, founder of Thailand’s Population and Community Development Association (PDA).

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 16, 2013

The upcoming Crowdsourcing Week is a five-day conference to be held in Singapore on June 3-7, 2013, that will explore everything crowdsourcing, open innovation and crowdfunding. In an online atmosphere, more attention can be given to the specific needs of a project, rather than spending as much time in communication with other individuals.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 31, 2013

Instead of relying on usual “submit a resume for different positions and wait for an interview call-up” way to land a dream job, a job seeker can instead tap on existing communities such as online social networks and respected thought leaders in their industries to recommend the right roles for them.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Stef Lewandowski , co-founder of Makeshift.io, which has launched apps attending.io , hiremyfriend.io domain also references “input/output”, something that Courtney Boyd Myers , founder of audience.io says founder Kellee Khalil. The domain name choice just made sense for the community-focused company, says Badal. “We

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

is a venture capitalist investing in Silicon Valley and Singapore. You might have started searching for a tech-oriented co-founder to help you launch your idea, only to find that your startup can’t afford the ongoing salary for a skilled software developer. Eddy Lee, Ph.D, Crowdsourcing: The latest alternative.

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Transformify

MARCH 14, 2020

Startup hubs like Berlin, London, New York, Los Angeles, Bangalore, Hong Kong and Singapore offered access to venture capital and vibrant start ecosystems thus attracting the brightest founders. Out of a sudden, both startup founders and investors started asking themselves ‘’ What is our remote strategy?

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 10, 2017

Global Entrepreneurship Week took place last month around the world, and it was a rather opportune time for me to examine the factors that have helped Singapore startups succeed. The unfortunate consequence of this is that only half of startups formed in Singapore five years ago are still currently operating.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 28, 2012

Classes on growth hacking are being taught in Singapore. Why has growth hacking so strongly resonated with the startup community? Growth hacking has resonated in the startup community due to today’s growth challenges: new channel creation, channel saturation, the “best product” fallacy and “product-growth” fit.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 9, 2013

WineFamily also has a social network component called Grapevine that allows wine merchants to create their own social communities, allowing consumers to communicate directly with wine makers and distributors. Ideaspotting Asia e-commerce online commerce online community Southeast Asia wine'

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Jeff Hilimire

APRIL 11, 2014

iFusion Marketing started out as a fractional CMO consultancy providing strategy development and marketing plan development services in 2006 in response to a need in the startup community. It never ceases to amaze me when I hear a founder say “yes, but we’re different” or “we don’t have competitors.”

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

Heather Brunner, Tim Ferriss, Mayor Adler, Whitney Wolfe, Kendra Scott, Andy Roddick, Rod Favaron, Bijoy, whurley… Here are some of the Austin startup community members that will be on stage who you should show up to support! Successful businesses that give back to the community, and it’s all on brand. March 9, 2018 3:30PM?—?4:30PM

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 10, 2012

If founders have an accent or aren't comfortable with speaking in front of an audience, they should make sure to get lots of practice. Entrepreneurs who aren't polished presenters should go to their local Toastmasters branch or take a course in public speaking at a community college. Great presentation skills.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2012

JFDI Asia sure knows how to throw a Demo Day: it turned local nightspot TAB Singapore into part startup launchpad and part investor pitch conference for the Demo Day. In any case, the founders all felt that the time spent had been worth it. Investors were quick to speak to many of the startups once the presentations were over.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 12, 2012

No, this oasis of pleasure is what things are really like at Changi Airport in Singapore — and it’s the perfect illustration of what service can (and should) look like in our global economy. Years after I bought them, I found myself unpacking boxes in the much warmer climate of Singapore. He is the founder of UP!

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 27, 2013

The online fashion store that recently opened for the Singapore and Malaysia markets look to outfit fashionistas with the latest fashion items just days after they are seen on the catwalks of Milan, London and New York. The final garments are produced in, and distributed throughout Singapore and Malaysia through SEA Citizen’s online store. “We

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 19, 2019

As the co-founder and president of Highland Capital Management, James Dondero made sure that the company he built will include charitable giving as one of its missions right from the very beginning. This is the time when he and co-founder Mark Okada decided to relocate the firm from Los Angeles to Dallas.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 21, 2014

managing director Mara Lewis and founder & CEO Eric Mathews. “I’m looking forward to seeing this cohort of early stage entrepreneurs take the stage at the Orpheum Theater to showcase their work and share their experiences from the Summer of Acceleration with the community,” shared Mathews. The Honorable Edward B.

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David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

Along with some friends from Yale (my alma mater), I recently brainstormed some ideas to accelerate a university’s campus tech community. Marketing of tech community : Yale Tech News , Yale Entrepreneurship Magazine. Those unique assets are sometimes leverageable into a resource for strengthening the university’s tech community.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 5, 2019

Starting with a spare room and sensing a unique opportunity, its three founders created a multibillion-dollar company that profoundly altered the hospitality industry and became a driving force in the sharing economy. This summer, for example, I spoke in Singapore, Australia and South Africa. In other words, why Airbnb, and why now?

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

FootballHero is created by MyHero, the Singapore-based makers of highly successful stock trading app TradeHero – which is ranked the No.1 Yet the mechanics behind FootballHero are the same ones behind TradeHero , the idea of leveraging information brokerage and tapping on the collective knowledge of a specific (passionate) community.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

These trends usually mean that the founders of the company end up with lower amounts of equity and a more complex system of corporate governance when compared to other industries. Great ideas may survive, but only those flexible to the industry’s changing tides will thrive. – Experience is king.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 10, 2012

If founders have an accent or aren't comfortable with speaking in front of an audience, they should make sure to get lots of practice. Entrepreneurs who aren't polished presenters should go to their local Toastmasters branch or take a course in public speaking at a community college. Great presentation skills.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 10, 2020

I focused on what it is I do, I want to be approachable to the community and also I thought it important to express an idea of ‘moving with the times’, being fresh, consistent with modern practices and the such. Over these years, I got a chance to live, study and work in UK, US, and Singapore. Photo Credit: Erika Hardison.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

We already have a strong and growing community of more than 250,000 users in Singapore, and we are excited to offer them a great way to take notes by hand, but still enjoy the accessibility of all their notes, memories, photos and more in their Evernote ‘external brain’,” says Troy Malone, general manager of Evernote Asia Pacific.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Singapore-based mobile marketplace Carousell wants more users in Southeast Asia to start buying and selling items through their mobile phones on its platform — and it has linked up with Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten to do so. Apps Asia Entrepreneur e-commerce Japan News Singapore Southeast Asia'

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 24, 2013

You’re unlikely to have heard of Singapore-based creative agency Imaginary Friends Studios – unless you’re in the fields of film, games or animation. Stanley Artgerm Lau: I am a co-founder and creative director of IFS. Kai Lim: I am also known by my handle UkiTakuMuki within the online art community.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Initially launched in London by Dom Jackson and Rob Symington (both 28), Escape the City is a community that connects corporate professionals with information, people, and opportunities to help them find exciting alternatives to their corporate jobs. Perhaps they could expand to Singapore next.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Two years ago I moved to Beijing, where, as the founder of SoHelpful.me, I take calls from all over the world, talking entrepreneurship and innovation with people in 30-minute intervals. Impatient investors and team members give little support to a founder trying to do Customer Development to verify or modify that idea.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 27, 2012

That’s the path chosen by Mark Drake and Stephen Woodcock, the successful founders of imSMB , a Web hosting and design company. Small businesses want to give back - it’s rewarding and just feels right,” says imSMB co-founder Mark Drake. Woodcock says. Gardening and Volunteering.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Weve had people from Australia and Singapore. TaskRabbit has (people) making over $5,000 a month in San Francisco," says Craig Shapiro, founder of Collaborative Fund, a venture-capital fund specializing in sharing sites. Car owners on RelayRides make on average about $250 a month, says founder Shelby Clark. Thats real money."

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Weave yourself into the fabric of the community. Uplifting service works because it makes everyone feel good, from employees to customers to other community members. When your company contributes and participates in the wider community, uplifting the commercial, civil, cultural, environmental, and economic eco-systems, people notice.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Read interview Alternates: Bioverse , Miami, FL Lucidity , Los Angeles, CA NuID , San Francisco, CA Enterprise and Smart Data 12:30 pm Saturday, March 9 Finalists: Geospiza Swift , Denver, CO Molecula , Austin, TX Novo , New York, NY Osano , Austin, TX TransferFi , Singapore, Singapore?—?

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

It seems like every day there is a new headline about an exceptional startup founder, investor, or corporate headquarters moving to Texas. Our community colleges are excellent as well, including the Alamo Colleges, Austin Community College, the Dallas College and the Lone Star Community College. Joe Lonsdale. Jim Breyer.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

I like the psychology of forcing VCs to pitch to entrepreneurs, so wanted to share the results of an email interview I held with Arjen Strijker, Founder of Capital On Stage (also posted on Forbes ): Q: What was the inspiration for starting Capital on Stage? Startup founders need to apply via our website.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 13, 2012

Benjamin Koe, co-founder of JamiQ – the social media monitoring agency that developed ReputationWatch – offers some advice on choosing search terms. So far, she says that it has been interesting discovering the online conversations that people have about their pet cats or community strays. Identifying Keywords For Search.

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