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4 Ways Sales Can Help Your Company Offset Losses From Trump’s Trade Wars

YoungUpstarts

tech industry , companies using steel , and manufacturers of engineered hardwood floors are already feeling the pain. If your trade partner is in China, it might be possible to find new options in Southeast Asian countries such as Vietnam, Thailand, and Indonesia.

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Starting Up In Singapore (Part I) – Product/Market Fit

YoungUpstarts

The business may either start in Singapore and quickly venture outwards OR it starts in a larger regional market e.g. Indonesia from day one. Startups in this category knows that the Singapore market is inherently small and need to be in larger markets in order to sustain itself. Consumer Facing B2C.

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What Happens When Leaders Forget The Culture That Made Their Company Great?

YoungUpstarts

The company was already reeling from two Boeing 737 Max crashes in 2018 and 2019 that killed 346 passengers in Indonesia and Ethiopia, and forced the company to ground its entire fleet of Max jetliners. At Boeing, engineers were king. Higgs is also retired CEO of Mustang Engineering Inc.,

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2 Reasons Why This is the Best Holiday Season Ever

Growthink Blog

But to acquire more of these in 2018, first we must build the kinds of “softer” assets that power and fuel our business’ cash-generating engines. ViewQwest launched in Malaysia in Q3 2016 with Indonesia next in line. Of those ultimate and most important assets, cash and marketable securities.

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A dumb American’s perspective on investing in Southeast Asia

Hippoland

The market that everyone seems to hone in on is Indonesia. Indonesia has 250m+ people, so it’s close to the size of the US. But, once you start talking about population numbers closer to 100m people, then other countries start to rival Indonesia in size. So maybe you start with Indonesia if you’re familiar with the market?

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A dumb American’s perspective on investing in Southeast Asia

Hippoland

The market that everyone seems to hone in on is Indonesia. Indonesia has 250m+ people, so it’s close to the size of the US. But, once you start talking about population numbers closer to 100m people, then other countries start to rival Indonesia in size. So maybe you start with Indonesia if you’re familiar with the market?

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[Singapore] Designs On A New Furniture Future

YoungUpstarts

By 2008, around 50-percent of local furniture companies had shifted labor-intensive manufacturing operations to less expensive countries such as neighboring Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam and Thailand, and increasingly to China as well. ” Oon founders Poon Yew Wai and Lee Yoon Sheng.

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