Sun.Oct 23, 2016

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5 Mistakes We Made While Growing A Startup In Southeast Asia

YoungUpstarts

In March 2016, Rosanne Hortensius left the Netherlands to launch online couponing platform Saleduck in Southeast Asia. As the company’s Commercial Manager, Hortensius was armed with the responsibility of setting up the office’s headquarters in Kuala Lumpur as well as growing the local team. Along with Ben Rogmans – Saleduck’s CTO and co-founder, the two have spearheaded the movement towards expanding Saleduck in five countries within Southeast Asia and are now looking towards furthering th

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How Entrepreneurs Select And Nurture Top Performers

Startup Professionals Musings

Isn’t it amazing that some people you know always seem to be working hard, but never seem to get anything done? As an entrepreneur, you need to avoid partnering with these people, or hiring them into your startup. The challenge is to find people who get things done, as well as work hard. LinkedIn profiles and resumes still focus too much on responsibilities rather than results.

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What You Need To Know About Master’s In Medicine

YoungUpstarts

A Master’s in Medicine degree is a medical program that allows fresh science graduates to fulfil their medical dream. It is usually offered by prestigious medical schools to those who want to delve deeper in the health sector, an opportunity to advance further in their medical career. Also getting a master’s degree improves your employment opportunities tenfold.

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We Were Right – Just a Decade Early

Feld Thoughts

This is a line my friend Jerry Colonna uses when something like the AT&T – Time Warner deal occurs. As time passes, the line has shifted to “We were right – just fifteen years early.” Jerry was Fred Wilson ‘s partner at Flatiron Partners. We were all investing in Internet-related stuff at the end of the 1990s. Jerry and Fred had one of the most successful VC funds during this time period until the Internet bubble burst and blew us all up for a while.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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Dell Technologies Backs Girls Who Code

SiliconHills

Dell Technologies has partnered with Girls Who Code to support after school computer science programs for about 15,000 girls in under-served communities across the U.S. Dell has pledged $400,000 in a cash donation to support the program. It also appointed five women technology leaders as program ambassadors to serve as mentors to the girls in […] The post Dell Technologies Backs Girls Who Code appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Small Businesses A Great Fit For The New Nimble Marketplace

YoungUpstarts

By Raj Subramaniam, Executive Vice President, Global Marketing and Communications, FedEx Services. Consumer behavior and the way people shop are changing. Over the last several years, e- commerce has risen and there’s no longer a clear-cut distinction between bricks (store) and clicks (online shopping). It’s all just shopping. There’s increasingly an omni-channel approach to purchasing.