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2 Reasons Why This is the Best Holiday Season Ever

Growthink Blog

The first is that we currently have awesome economic conditions: a roaring stock market, low unemployment, and solid consumer and business confidence, all of which make right now as good a time as ever to start, grow, finance, and/or sell a business. financing round. NativeAds (digital advertising) closed on a $4M venture financing.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Where Should You Raise Money?

ReadWriteStart

Jacqueline asked an important question: how do you mitigate your working capital challenges in an e-commerce company at the very early stages without raising financing? First, there are two primary aspects that have to be managed: inventory financing and customer acquisition costs. Well, there are multiple nuances to the answer.

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Southeast Asia Startup Ecosystem Continues to Prosper Post-Pandemic

ReadWriteStart

As per a report by Google, Temasek Holdings, and Bain & Company, as many as 40 million people in six countries across the region — Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Thailand — came online for the first time in 2020. According to Asian Development Bank, Covid-19 pushed 4.7

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Incubators Are Reaching Out To 1M/1M

ReadWriteStart

Meanwhile, financing the company will be quite challenging, and I advised Satya to manufacture parts based only on signed contracts and advances against orders, to avoid getting into an inventory-rich, working capital-poor situation. Next, Douglas Villalobos from Costa Rica pitched GeoInvenio, a mobile application development platform.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 1M/1M Announces Partnership With MAD Incubator, Malaysia

ReadWriteStart

At this week's One Million by One Million roundtable, we announced a very important partnership with MAD Incubator, Malaysia for entrepreneurship development in the region. This is our first major partnership with an incubator whereby MAD will adopt the 1M/1M methodology to foster Silicon Valley-style technopreneurship in Malaysia.

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How To Dislodge And Move Forward When Decision Makers Are At A Stalemate 

YoungUpstarts

Jill saw risks on both sides, but knew that whatever path forward the company chose, gaining the full commitment of her team — the leaders of sales, marketing, manufacturing, finance, human resources, and legal — was crucial for success. Develop several alternatives. and Malaysia. So, what happens next? Set clear objectives.

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[Singapore] Tribehired.com Lands Investment; Plans Team Expansion

YoungUpstarts

Prior to this round, TribeHired had received pre-seed funding from Cradle Fund Sdn Bhd , a government agency under the Ministry of Finance, Malaysia. TribeHired currently operates in Singapore and Malaysia but is expected to launch internationally soon. Meanwhile Ben Chew brings specialist domain insight around recruitment.

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