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How to raise money for your startup from VCs and investors in Asia

The Next Web

He is currently CEO of Bubbly , a social media startup backed by Sequoia Capital, SingTel Innov8, and JAFCO. Singapore is by far the most developed behind those big three markets with government schemes attracting over a dozen early stage firms to set up shop here (e.g. Golden Gate Ventures , Jungle Ventures , etc.),

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Transportation, On-Demand And The Asian Economy – Asian Horizons

YoungUpstarts

The on-demand economy may have been spurred by the big names that have frequent mentions in social media or otherwise: Uber, Airbnb and the whole shebang. Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia and Vietnam) We’ve identified some factors that set them apart from other ride-sharing outfits. Grab In Focus.

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How To Take Back Control Of Technology

Duct Tape Marketing

And I think this overuse of spending so much time on screen when your whole social life is on screen for the games, is very similar to what's happening with social media. With social media. And other countries like Thailand, South Korea have experimented with different methods. We see more boys doing it.

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The Path of Our Lives

Steve Blank

My roommate, Glen, would become my best friend in Florida and Thailand as we were sent to different air bases in Southeast Asia. In Thailand I even figured out how to sneak off base for a few days, cross Thailand via train, visit him in his airbase and convince everyone I had been assigned to do so (not that easy with a war on.)

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How to build a Silicon Valley caliber product engineering team in Asia

The Next Web

He is currently CEO of Bubbly, a social media startup backed by Sequoia Capital, SingTel Innov8, and JAFCO. Ultimately, we were able to land three top developers — one from Thailand, one from Russia, and the overall hackathon winner from Korea. Thomas Clayton has started and run numerous high-tech startups in Silicon Valley.

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How to Start a Travel Agency

Up and Running

Further, we had a very simple organization structure, so ease of governance and compliance drove our choice of corporate structure.”. Plenty of your focus should go into social media marketing and more “guerilla marketing” tactics. “I Why was an LLC the best choice? “We

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Episode 12: How to Define Your Target Market, Guest Eric Siu, and the #MinimumWage | The Bcast

Up and Running

This is all the census information that the government collects every few years. But when you go to eat there, you’re actually going and sitting in their house, and you’re seeing a slideshow of their travels in Thailand on the wall. Is the rest of it social media and referral traffic? Peter: Yeah. Peter: Okay.