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Southeast Asia Startup Ecosystem Continues to Prosper Post-Pandemic

ReadWriteStart

It is home to over 680 million people and over 400 million internet users- nearly 70% of the population. The report predicts that the region’s internet economy can cross $300 billion by 2025. Most Internet users in this region are connected through their smartphones. Southeast Asia was walloped by Covid-19.

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Asia Pacific SMEs Must Look To Cross-Border Trade

YoungUpstarts

For example, New Zealand and South Korea have 94 and 92 percent Internet penetration respectively, but Thailand is struggling to get to 30 percent [3]. 5] ADB Banking on Better / www.eastasiaforum.org / banking on better sme financing in asean. [6] Because that is where the real opportunities are. [1] 1] eMarketer [link]. [2]

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27 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

My strength was not in finance, so one of the first things I did was hire someone to handle the books and keep me on a solid financial path, so I could focus on running my business. It was 1998 and the internet wasn’t exactly readily available. My greatest strength is in connecting with people. I was thinking about Vancouver.

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Love About Being An Entrepreneur

Hearpreneur

I set up my business to be distributed, so although my company is based out of Scottsdale, Arizona, I live in Thailand most of the time. It’s opened my life up to new possibilities, from an elephant sanctuary to a life partner – and, I still regularly travel outside Thailand.

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You Can’t Spell Hardware without H-A-R-D

K9 Ventures

You would think this is easy in the days of the Internet, but you’ll be surprised that just typing a query into Google doesn’t always yield the results you’re looking for. This introduces new risks in terms of forecasting, financing, and logistics. Few investors will look at hardware companies for venture financing.

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Global Perspective: Current Opportunities for Low-Cost Manufacturing in China

The Startup Magazine

More recently, US President Donald Trump’s trade war with China has led to apprehension that US-based companies will be moving their production from Chinese manufacturers to factories in other low-cost countries such as India, Thailand and Vietnam. Few other countries can match China in this – be it India, Thailand or Vietnam.

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Digital Nomads and the Remote Work Revolution

Transformify

Cheaper and faster is also something that we can expect from the internet, which is set the cover even more obscure corners of the globe. You just need a laptop, the right software and an internet connection. One day they're living in a hotel in Chiang Mai, Thailand, the next they're couchsurfing in Australia.

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