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5 Mistakes We Made While Growing A Startup In Southeast Asia

YoungUpstarts

Also, in Southeast Asia the Islam is the dominant religion in most countries such as Indonesia and Malaysia which means that a lot of your Southeast Asian team members may not consume alcohol. For example, it’s very common in Europe to get everything done via email. Reminders, enquiries, even introductions!

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Monetizing Social Networks: The Four Dominant Business Models and How You Should Implement Them in 2010

venturedig.com

Example: With the ad above, the user clicks the ad, they take a quiz, and usually they fill out their email address or phone number. The advertiser (IQ Quiz), will pay the Facebook developer (you) each time a user fills out their email address or phone number. Usually, there’s a middle man involved. Read more here.

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A dumb American’s perspective on investing in Southeast Asia

Hippoland

We recently announced at Hustle Fund that we will start investing in Southeast Asian software startups, and my new business partner Shiyan Koh, who just moved back home to Singapore, will be leading the charge on that. Messaging / email generally works. The market that everyone seems to hone in on is Indonesia. Payments work.

Asia 48
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A dumb American’s perspective on investing in Southeast Asia

Hippoland

We recently announced at Hustle Fund that we will start investing in Southeast Asian software startups, and my new business partner Shiyan Koh, who just moved back home to Singapore, will be leading the charge on that. Messaging / email generally works. The market that everyone seems to hone in on is Indonesia. Payments work.

Asia 48
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Why I stepped away from Facebook development

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

Since this first game, I have developed around twenty different Facebook applications with various partners ( Social Whims ) and implemented many different ways of monetizing a facebook application. But it is easier to be visible in a less crowded market like Indonesia, or the recently growing asian countries. on a RPG game and $0.40

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14 Entrepreneurs Describe The BHAGs (Big Hairy Audacious Goals) For Their Business?

Hearpreneur

As a SaaS company, we have had pretty good success in acquiring new customers for our business using various techniques: organic traffic, paid ads, email marketing, etc. To solve this problem, we are working on new email marketing campaigns, Facebook retargeting, paid ads and other methods. not mine as hairy and big as they may be.

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Out of the Crisis #11: Jeremy Howard on the power of masks, health policy, and data science in medicine

Startup Lessons Learned

Before that I was an equal partner in Kaggle, which is a popular data science competition community. I spent 10 years creating and running an insurance pricing company, 10 years creating and running a popular email provider called Fastmail, and almost 10 years as a very boring corporate strategy management consultant at McKinsey.