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eFishery Secures $200 Million Funding, Becomes Indonesia’s First Aquaculture Unicorn

ReadWriteStart

The funding will be critical in supporting eFishery’s ambitious plans to expand its operations both within Indonesia and internationally. Only China has a larger fishing and aquaculture industry than Indonesia does; Indonesia’s industry is currently ranked in second place. The remarkable annual output of 5.8

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How to raise money for your startup from VCs and investors in Asia

The Next Web

As I touched on before, China and India have the most mature VC communities. Singapore is by far the most developed behind those big three markets with government schemes attracting over a dozen early stage firms to set up shop here (e.g. the large government-linked corporations setting up their own venture arms (e.g.

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Power to the People: How to Create a Profitable Social Enterprise

Up and Running

A street view in Bali, Indonesia, where the founders of Indosole were inspired to start their social enterprise. First off, you should have a clear mission set out in your governing documents ; whether it’s a social venture or an environmental quest, all your choices should be controlled in the interests of this mission.

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NYC 3.0

thebarefootvc

Now that I’m back full time in NYC, I decided to run for the Board of NY Tech Meetup, a dynamic community of 20,000 entrepreneurs, investors, developers, designers and people interested in tech. Third, we want to make sure that our tech community is inclusive to all. So how has the NYC tech entrepreneurship sector evolved?

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Why predicting the future is more about sociology than technology

Start Up Blog

This chart above is from a new World Economic Forum report, Deep Shift: Technology Tipping Points and Societal Impact , predicts 21 dates in the future when previously unimaginable innovations will enter our daily lives, transforming the way we live and the way communities and governments function.

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Progressive Web Apps: What Do Marketers Need to Know?

ConversionXL

If you want a deeper, more technical explanation, check out this talk given by the Google Chrome Developers community.). Tokopedia —the biggest marketplace platform in Indonesia—built AMP versions of their top three organic landing page types: product, category, and trending. The magic—and limitations—of caching. This created 3.6

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Episode 107: Is the Recession Over Yet? with James Coyle

Mike Michalowicz

Mr. Coyle’s columns are considered a highlight of the paper and forcefully expound on issues of importance to the business community. He played a major role in Governor Whitman’s 1993 election campaign, and has managed or advised numerous legislative, county and local campaigns on issues management and communications strategy.