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[Malaysia] National Instruments Opens NI-AIN Lab In Technology Park

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Automated test equipment and virtual instrumentation software provider National Instruments has announced the opening of National Instruments Academy & Innovation Nucleus (NI-AIN), a shared services lab facility in Technology Park Malaysia comprising over RM20 million (~US$6.25

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Where Should You Raise Money?

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It is a very good format for entrepreneur groups around the world to get together and network around the roundtable programming which happens every week, religiously. Next Vin Lim presented Qyzzy.com , which can be succinctly summarized as the Yelp of Malaysia. First up today was Jacqueline Floro-Pierre with ShopTranslated from China.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Incubators Are Reaching Out To 1M/1M

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First up, Satya Choppadhandi from Bangalore, India, presented Evolutech Networks, a company that manufactures wireless energy monitoring devices for the smart home. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Discuss.

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HBS Entrepreneurs Founded the Most Startup Unicorns of Any MBA Program

View from Seed

This data point indicates the importance of the business school network when founding a company, while also challenging the generalization that two or more MBA co-founders presents too much of a skill-set overlap. MBA founders without strong engineering backgrounds are more likely to found companies that require less technical expertise.

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LinkedIn Explores What It Takes To Be an Entrepreneur [INFOGRAPHIC]

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INFOGRAPHIC] Social Media Marketing By the Numbers [INFOGRAPHIC] Social Network Wars: How The Five Major Platforms Stack Up [INFOGRAPHIC] The Rise of the Mobile Workforce [INFOGRAPHIC] Computer Vision Syndrome: Do Your Eyes Have It? LinkedIn was curious, so the business social network decided to find out. Pretty terrible.

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Cultural Strategy Key in Global Sourcing

The Entrepreneurial Mind

Nuvar’s in-house engineering assists its customers with product development and design. Through a global network of manufacturing suppliers, Nuvar sources component part manufacturing. Nuvar sources from Europe (France, Germany, and Italy), Asia (China, Taiwan, and Malaysia) and North America (Mexico and Canada).

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[Singapore] Designs On A New Furniture Future

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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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