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Korea – Asia’s Startup Powerhouse

YoungUpstarts

by Jun Byongnam, Regional Director of the Korea IT Cooperation Center in Singapore. In the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, South Korea has been lauded in the speed and clarity of their response. We will take a look at what those steps have done for South Korea and the possible projections.

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Why Acceptance of Failure is Critical to Startup Success

Both Sides of the Table

This came to mind a couple of years ago when I had the chance to sit down with the president of South Korea and she asked a small gathering of 19 tech & business leaders for opinions about how to make the Korean economy more “creative.” Could leaders of society try to change the culture in ways that encourage acceptance of failure?

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Dog Days of Summer

thebarefootvc

As the United States celebrated its Independence Day on July 4th, several jurisdictions around the world, including South Korea, Bermuda and Malta, passed legislation to support crypto assets and virtual currencies. Of these, South Korea’s appears the most detailed by providing a classification scheme as a framework for regulation.

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5 Singapore Industries In Which To Get Rich

YoungUpstarts

Naturally, salesmanship relies a lot on personal qualities like charisma that some people can never develop and that some people have had since childhood. To a certain extent, Singapore is competing with countries like South Korea in that regard, which is only going to stimulate development in the biotech sector of Singapore further.

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What’s Plan B? – The Small, the Agile, and the Many

Steve Blank

It may be the hedge we need to deter China in the South China Sea. was fighting Al-Qaeda and ISIS, China built new weapons and developed new operational concepts to negate U.S. The sum of these Chinese offset strategies means that in the South China Sea the U.S. While You Were Out. In the two decades since 9/11, while the U.S.

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How The 5G Revolution Emerged And How It Will Give Business A Boost

YoungUpstarts

currently trails China and South Korea in 5G development, a situation which puts America at a disadvantage if it is not addressed. A study of 96 developed and developing economies conducted between 2008 and 2011 found that a 10 percent market shift from 2G to 3G in a given country yielded a GDP increase of 0.15

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Transformify gets two freelance platform awards from FinancesOnline

Transformify

To address the issue, Transformify has developed a contract hiring solution, billing/ self-billing, and payment services. Many countries around the world require employers to hire people with disabilities and it has recently been reported that 50% of the private companies in South Korea. Source: Disability-smart.