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5 Mistakes We Made While Growing A Startup In Southeast Asia

YoungUpstarts

The first platform we launched was our Singaporean site and we realised that most large companies there provide their staff with basic health insurance coverage and the same goes for Malaysia and Thailand. Especially in Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines where people are a lot more responsive over the phone.

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JD.com Celebrates a Decade of Non-stop Delivery Service During Spring Festival Holidays

The Startup Magazine

JD has now offered non-stop delivery service during the Spring Festival holidays for ten years, providing its customers with timely delivery of their goods for a decade. Over 200,000 JD couriers were on duty during the sale to ensure the timely delivery of customers’ orders.

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Innovation: The Key To Entrepreneurial Success

YoungUpstarts

Unleashing creative thinking helps drive businesses forward, improve customer value propositions and identify new opportunities that deliver on the needs of our ever changing customers. Be agile and adapt to changing market needs – your customer’s needs are not static and they will continue to evolve.

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[Event] Ukraine, Thailand And US Take Top Spots At Microsoft Imagine Cup 2012

YoungUpstarts

Taking top spot in the Software Design category is quadSquad from Ukraine, winning US$25,000 with its set of custom-designed sensory gloves and a smartphone application called ‘Enable Talk’ that allows the deaf to communicate verbally by translating sign languages into speech. Thailand team TANG Thai and U.S. Xbox/Windows.

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4 Ways Sales Can Help Your Company Offset Losses From Trump’s Trade Wars

YoungUpstarts

Companies buying or selling products or parts across international boundaries are likely to see higher costs which, without effort, must be passed onto the customer. Your sales team should also investigate alternate ways of bringing value to the customers. These paradigm shifts are very real and demand a proactive response.

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Careers Start by Peeling Potatoes

Steve Blank

When I got to my first airbase my job was lugging electronics boxes on and off fighter planes under the broiling hot Thailand sun, to bring them into the technicians inside the air-conditioned shop, to troubleshoot and fix. Wrote technical manuals and taught microprocessor design (to customers who knew more than I did.)

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[Interview] Benjamin Yee of EMERGE App

YoungUpstarts

Navigating a rented motorbike through the winding hills of Vietnam and swimming in secret lagoons in Thailand are just some of the things that Benjamin Yee does when he’s not typing furiously away at this laptop. Secondly, I get a flood of emails, chats and messages from customers and prospects every day.