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5 Mistakes We Made While Growing A Startup In Southeast Asia

YoungUpstarts

Also, in Southeast Asia the Islam is the dominant religion in most countries such as Indonesia and Malaysia which means that a lot of your Southeast Asian team members may not consume alcohol. Upon realising this, it definitely helped to speed up the hiring process and we now work with a multicultural team of 14.

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What Happens When Leaders Forget The Culture That Made Their Company Great?

YoungUpstarts

Many business leaders view their corporate culture as so important that they make it a point to hire people who are a good fit for that culture – and jettison any employees who aren’t. which he and two partners started in 1987 to design and build offshore oil platforms. He recently launched the Culture Code Champions podcast.

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[Singapore] Shopify Partners SingTel To Grow Presence In Singapore

YoungUpstarts

“As opposed to North America, countries here like Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and India need a bit of hand-holding when it comes to starting an online store, so having a partner here on the ground is important.”

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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. Founded in 2004, it has grown in leaps and bounds along with NYC’s tech sector. So how has the NYC tech entrepreneurship sector evolved?

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How To Prepare Your Ecommerce Business For The Future

YoungUpstarts

Certain logistics providers are able to offer a variety of contracting options to you, including designing your supply chain, processing your orders, and managing your inventory. These users, living in fast-developing countries like China, India, and Indonesia, will soon start to develop their own spending power. Why Mobile Matters.

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Small Business Spotlight of the Week: SkiTown.com

crowdSPRING Blog

How did you get things designed before crowdSPRING? We used to have designers on staff years ago, and we used some local graphic designers when we no longer needed full time designers on staff. A local design shop was charging us $500 – $1000 for three comps of a design and we had to choose from one of them.