YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Despite the country’s modest size, the tiny island of Singapore seems to be producing game development firms at a prodigious rate. ” Feature Story Daylight Studios IAHGames mobile games Singapore video games' billion to US$22 billion.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 5, 2013

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Singapore facing critical challenges in doing business in-country – with its manpower crunch, high rental costs and small domestic market – may want to consider exploring participating in the global e-commerce market, says PayPal.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 10, 2017

Global Entrepreneurship Week took place last month around the world, and it was a rather opportune time for me to examine the factors that have helped Singapore startups succeed. There are also efforts by the government to share data collected by public agencies through online portals as part of the Smart Nation initiative.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 4, 2014

Spanning halfway round the globe – from Turkey to the United Arab Emirates to India, South East Asia and China – the book brings one on a fascinating tour of the complex business characteristics governing our neck of the woods. Let me highlight some of the book’s fascinating themes: Growth of Middle-Class Consumers.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 3, 2013

The annual week-long global crowdsourcing conference will take place in Singapore on April 7-11, 2014, and will see an expanded lineup of events that will convene many of the luminaries from around the world who are shaping the future of the growing crowdsourcing movement. Early bird tickets will go on sale on December 12, 2013.

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Start Up Blog

MAY 28, 2020

I work in consumer electronics sales. I’ve now done with Fortune 50 firms and Governments in the USA, India, China, Singapore & the UK. You get the following answers: I work for a large warehousing and logistics firm. I work in the energy industry, primarily focused on electricity. Keep thinking, Steve. .

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

Similarly, Alibaba’s $1 billion investment in Singapore-based e-commerce firm Lazada equips it with the necessary armour to counter Amazon’s entry into Asia. Increases government support and legislation. With the necessary government support, startups will be able to sell their goods and services more easily.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 29, 2013

Hero mentors” have exited their businesses through a trade sale or IPO, sometimes multiple times; they offer inspiration to your team and coaching on strategy and tactics. It’s up to you to find housing in Singapore. 100 days is an awkward period of time to be in Singapore. When you least expect it, they may offer to invest.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 12, 2012

No, this oasis of pleasure is what things are really like at Changi Airport in Singapore — and it’s the perfect illustration of what service can (and should) look like in our global economy. It paid its sales team a special bonus for achieving high levels of customer satisfaction. Service Recovery and Guarantees. Probably not.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 31, 2016

It took over four months to find a suitable buyer, with my apartment simply advertised on various property websites in Singapore. Although I didn’t get the level of service and information from my agent, I spent considerable time doing research on recently transacted property prices using government databases. Be prepared.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 17, 2017

by Steve Tan, Deputy Head and key partner in Rajah & Tann Singapore ’s TMT (Technology, Media and Telecommunications) practice group. Singapore’s data protection law has one of the highest fines in Asia with each breach subject to a potential fine of S$1 million. Ensuring compliance in an evolving landscape. .

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2013

Over the next few decades, this young cohort would comprise a rising proportion of citizens in Asia (31%-40% in Singapore, Korea, Hong Kong and Japan, and more than 51% in Malaysia, Philippines, India and Indonesia). 2005 to Today: Retail, Manufacturing, Finance, Government Specific, etc. Macro Trend 4: Emergence of the Third Platform.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 5, 2011

With fast and affordable broadband connections throughout Singapore and a growing number of attractive Web-based services, cloud computing is set to become one of the most powerful tools in the arsenal of a Singaporean small business. He currently manages teams in India, Canada, Singapore and the UK.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

government fund and as Entrepreneur-In-Residence for the National Science Foundation. Think, for example, about the way we talk about sales and customer development and the idea of ‘getting out of the building.’ He leads Lean Startup workshops around the world, recently spending a lot of time in Singapore and Puerto Rico.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 24, 2018

work (collection, processing, reporting, analysis), processes, org structure, governance models, last-mile gaps , metrics ladders of awesomeness , and… so… much… more. Remember, tools, work, processes, org structure, governance models, last-mile gaps, metrics ladders of awesomeness, and… so… much… more. The Implications of Complexity.

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Start Up Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

A jurisdiction where the tax rates are lower, think Singapore, Ireland, the Netherlands, the Cayman Islands. Let’s say the customer is based in “Australia’ the transaction will be recorded as sale with say ‘Singapore’. My monthly $5 gmail account is paid to Google Singapore). Where the corporate tax rate 17%. (My

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

They include total sales, campaign ROI, conversion rates, cost per lead, cost per sale, revenue per click and so on. Finally, we need to be mindful of government legislation on consumer privacy (eg CAN-SPAM in the US or Privacy Data Protection Act in Singapore). Once this is established, suitable KPIs can be established.

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thebarefootvc

AUGUST 31, 2018

Interestingly, Satis, a blockchain advisory firm, published a report this past week (link below) that predicts offshore markets for cryptocurrency will be main drivers of crypto market growth, citing a loss of confidence in government monetary policy around the world.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Everyone had to embrace the Stepping UP Together mindset — engineering, ground staff, the technical crew, registration and sales, people at the counters, people at the gate area, people on the aircraft. Your Service, a global service education and management consultancy firm with offices in the United States and Singapore.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 14, 2022

The government set a goal to increase the percentage of people employed in tech t0 15% but it cannot be achieved overnight. There are two main forms of exits for startups: trade sale/M&A or IPO. The trend is expected to continue and is supported by government grants, the Israel innovation authority etc. SPACs have backfired.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2011

The government ; the Innovation Division of the Ministry of Economy , the Chilean Economic Development Agency , (CORFO) which sponsored Start-Up Chile and Do Future in Patagonia as well as Fundacion Chile , the main R&D agency and the National Innovation Council. There seemed to be few tools, techniques and strategies to do so.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 2, 2020

At every one of them I was the person who wrote the proposals, did the technical interviewed on candidates, went on sales calls with the Account Managers to make them look good and got put on troubled projects to help right the ship. The 5 years that I spent working in the US were majorly governed by 2 things: Work and Cooking.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 28, 2015

China alone is tipped to exceed $1 trillion in retail ecommerce sales in the next three years, making up more than 40 percent of the global eCommerce market. [1]. Many of the problems with e-commerce logistics are the result of deliberate policy choices by governments. 1] [link]. [2] 3] “Enabling Grwoth for APEC SMEs”.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 5, 2014

And Stoddard notes that at NetApp they use proper governance to facilitate faster learning: “We use an enterprise executive architecture committee, with all the leaders of every NetApp function — marketing, sales, HR, operations, finance, and so on. That’s how we can come up with a roadmap for the whole company. Excuse the pun!)

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

Here he found out that every kid in Uruguay is given a free laptop by the government – (for me it’s a bit like western countries giving all kids a free public education some 200 years ago and that’s why they currently lead the developed world). They are using Singapore as their model of economic development.

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