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

YoungUpstarts

Once the answer is found, the entrepreneur needs to do serious research on the market he/she will be addressing. Product/Market Fit. To me, the Market is the most important followed closely by the Team who can execute, navigate and conquer that market. Startups in this category start off in their home markets (i.e.

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

YoungUpstarts

Moreover, a trade war with China, the world’s second largest economy, has created volatility in the stock markets and upheaval for certain corporate sectors. They are now the vanguard in controlling the damage and identifying new streams of revenue. It remains to be seen which U.S. businesses will be positively or negatively affected.

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2 Reasons Why This is the Best Holiday Season Ever

Growthink Blog

The first is that we currently have awesome economic conditions: a roaring stock market, low unemployment, and solid consumer and business confidence, all of which make right now as good a time as ever to start, grow, finance, and/or sell a business. Of those ultimate and most important assets, cash and marketable securities.

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Born Global or Die Local – Building a Regional Startup Playbook

Steve Blank

Scalable startups are on a trajectory for a billion dollar market cap. But if you want to build a scalable startup you need to be asking how you can you get enough customers/users/payers to build a business that can grow revenues past several $100M/year. has a large enough market that most U.S. ———-.

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Breakout Growth Strategies for Today’s Boom Market

Growthink Blog

Try on these “Boom Market” stats for size: The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed today at 24,642.86, up 24% since January 1st and 34% since Election Day 2016. are on sustained rises, there builds in every market a class of consumers that is flush with the feeling of wealth and liquidity, and thus becomes far less price sensitive.

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Build Your Personalized Travel Journals With Qiito.com

YoungUpstarts

During the recent JFDI-Innov8 Bootcamp Demo Day in Singapore, we saw two startups – Singapore-based Flocations and Trafflers of Indonesia – putting their spin on travel. Chuang admits that Qiito currently doesn’t have a revenue model as yet.

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

The Next Web

The region’s other strong VC presence resides in Japan, which has the typical Japanese model of a few large firms dominating the market. 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. Thus, VCs have the upper hand.

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