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JFDI.Asia Accelerator: Bootcamp Practicalities

YoungUpstarts

Because we’ve learned the hard way that $100,000, which is six months of runway in Silicon Valley, is a retirement jackpot in half of Southeast Asia. It’s up to you to find housing in Singapore. 100 days is an awkward period of time to be in Singapore. JFDI is a means to an end, not an end in itself.

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How Universities Can Help Students and Alumni Work in the Tech Industry

David Teten

In 2011, Yale launched Yale-NUS, a sister university based in Singapore. It’s important moving forward that they expand their reach to other regions (particularly Silicon Valley). There are currently over 1,000 Chinese students and scholars at Yale. Yale is unusual in offering need-blind admissions to international students.

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Strategy Roundtable: Professional Investors Do Not Invest In $20 Million Markets

ReadWriteStart

Chak has been able to get a couple of distributors in Singapore to buy his greeting cards designed by a community of artists, but is struggling to find a steady, repeatable model. I asked her not to spray and pray, and focus on her core, differentiated products - stretch mark and c-section mark removal creams for new mothers.

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Ranking — And Understanding — The World’s Top Startup Hubs [Video]

ReadWriteStart

New research shows Silicon Valley still rules the startup world. Ecosystem Differentiation. Sure, Silicon Valley is far and away the strongest startup region anywhere. Did you know founders in Silicon Valley work longer hours than founders anywhere else? ” The Top 20: Silicon Valley, California.

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Strategy Roundtable: Professional Investors Do Not Invest In $20 Million Markets

www.readwriteweb.com

Chak has been able to get a couple of distributors in Singapore to buy his greeting cards designed by a community of artists, but is struggling to find a steady, repeatable model. I asked her not to spray and pray, and focus on her core, differentiated products - stretch mark and c-section mark removal creams for new mothers.

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Strategy Roundtable: Professional Investors Do Not Invest In $20 Million Markets

www.readwriteweb.com

Chak has been able to get a couple of distributors in Singapore to buy his greeting cards designed by a community of artists, but is struggling to find a steady, repeatable model. I asked her not to spray and pray, and focus on her core, differentiated products - stretch mark and c-section mark removal creams for new mothers.

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You’ve graduated from the incubator cocoon… now what?

The Next Web

For the entrepreneurs who are in Israel, Turkey, Europe (CEE or Western), New Zealand, Singapore, and other markets: understand your limitations. Beyond Silicon Valley investors. There are innovations waiting to be discovered and financed with the promise of improving lives and generating profits. Crowdfunding (trend or hype)?

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