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Global Perspective: Current Opportunities for Low-Cost Manufacturing in China

The Startup Magazine

Businesses all over the world – including startups – have sourced their product manufacturing in China for over a decade now. A few prominent companies have indeed made the decision to move production out of China in the past few months. First, labour costs comprise only one part of the cost of the product.

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

After living and traveling around Thailand in 2014 and with other travelers I was desperate to learn Thai. We want to leave an impact on the communities we operate in and the employees on our team, so we even offer them networking and internship opportunities. 6- To give back to the community. Photo Credit: Simon Bacher.

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Announcing our investment in Dinari, a decentralized stock trading platform

Version One Ventures

The tokenization of real-world assets (RWA) is one of the most interesting use cases for the blockchain, gaining momentum inside both crypto and traditional finance communities. This is significant as a large number of people in countries like Mexico and Thailand own a blockchain wallet, but no brokerage account.

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These Are The Most Exciting FinTechs To Emerge In Southeast Asia

YoungUpstarts

The countries are Singapore (490 FinTechs), Indonesia (262 FinTechs), Malaysia (196 FinTechs), Thailand (128 FinTechs), Philippines (115 FinTechs), and Vietnam (77 FinTechs). Since it was founded in 2014, it has launched 4 innovative and competitive products, with its flagship product being Liquid, a web application.

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Love About Being An Entrepreneur

Hearpreneur

It might be the products or the customers they deal with, or it could even be the fact that they are the ones in charge of it all. Being an entrepreneur is more than just about selling a product or service or the freedom to make my own hours and call the shots. 17-Creating new content and products. Photo Credit: Vipe Desai.

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Ecosystem for success: the key ingredients to attract an early-stage investor

The Startup Magazine

Even if failure can be educational and productive it is not an exercise to be repeated. What problem does my product/idea solve? Who are my key competitors, what is their market share and how does my product distinguish itself? He is the Founder and former CEO of Wind Energy Holdings in Thailand. I hate to fail.

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27 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Then I read, listened to tons of podcasts/audio books, saved 10K of my per diem traveling money so I wouldn’t have to go in debt to acquire products & launched. When I started to feel that I was product pushing and not focusing on tailored solutions specific to my clients – I decided to start my own company.