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[Interview] RIM Eyes Southeast Asia’s Developer Scene

YoungUpstarts

During the recent launch of Blackberry 7 OS in Singapore, Research In Motion (RIM) executives had shared that Southeast Asia was a potential hotbed of application developers with whom they were keen to work with. During the launch of Blackberry 7, RIM executives mentioned that Southeast Asia is a key market for developing applications.

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

The Startup Magazine

First, they have a compelling vision that computing will follow the same path as energy did in the 19 th century: costly and inefficient decentralized energy production was replaced by centralized plants and a distribution grid to produce formidable economies of scale. He is the Founder and former CEO of Wind Energy Holdings in Thailand.

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My Favorite Entrepreneur Story in a Long Time

Both Sides of the Table

I was never into spicy foods growing up but after living in the UK for nearly a decade and having so much great Indian food around me all of the time I developed more of a taste for it. Turns out it is a family-owned business started by a refugee from Vietnam and named after a small village in Thailand Si Racha. Branding matters.

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Is Outsourcing Exploitation?

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

Even though $300 USD a month may not seem like much to someone living in a developed country, in Thailand, or Romania, the Philippines, or India, it’s above the average monthly wage. So how can outsourcing overseas, when the pay rate seems so terribly small compared to the amount of time put in by the worker, be considered fair?

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Love About Being An Entrepreneur

Hearpreneur

I set up my business to be distributed, so although my company is based out of Scottsdale, Arizona, I live in Thailand most of the time. It’s opened my life up to new possibilities, from an elephant sanctuary to a life partner – and, I still regularly travel outside Thailand. Photo Credit: Chane Steiner.

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You Can’t Spell Hardware without H-A-R-D

K9 Ventures

It’s one thing for a company at the scale of Apple to be developing custom machinery for their processes, it’s a whole other ball-game for a tiny startup to take on something like this (I strongly recommend against it unless there is no other viable option for it).

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Coronavirus: Will It Boost the Adoption Of Remote Work?

Transformify

Managing distributed workforce and remote teams was not something totally new for them. billion of tourism revenue in the first quarter due to the drop in Chinese travelers while Thailand could lose $1.15 installed on their laptops. ICAO also forecasts that Japan could lose $1.29