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[Singapore] JFDI.Asia’s Second Accelerator Program This Year Receives Overwhelming Response

YoungUpstarts

“The range of business ideas and the level of expertise we see on our doorstep here in Asia is truly impressive and our metrics show that the startups we accelerate do as well as any of their peers in Europe or the US outside Silicon Valley.” Other nations made up less than 1% of applications each. .

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

The Next Web

Thailand, Indonesia, Korea, and Vietnam each have a couple of very good VC firms. Valuations are based more on typical later-stage type of metrics. But unfortunately, if you’re based in one of those countries and cannot impress one of them, then there are not many other options.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Week 7

Steve Blank

They have to change the metrics across the entire organization. If not, then the effectiveness of the Horizon 3 effort will be graded using Horizon 1 metrics. But in the military success has different metrics. In those case revenue will become an additional metric. Now back to the class. . Team Presentations: Week 7.

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The Next 10 Years Of Infocomm Technology

YoungUpstarts

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). To gain resonance, IT plans need to consider the goals and metrics of the business and not just technology KPIs alone.

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How to Come up with Hundreds of Business Ideas

Up and Running

Founder Nick Woodman had recently been on a surfing trip to Indonesia, and was unable to find amateur photographers who could get close enough to get good action-shot pictures of him surfing, or who could obtain quality equipment at an affordable price. Very clever.

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Jason Colodne of Colbeck Capital Interviews Energy Ventures Analysis’ Emily Medine

The Startup Magazine

billion metric tons in the market of coal trading, which was not much of a decline compared to previous years. Colodne: In the US, coal plants have been around for over forty years, while in some countries such as Indonesia and the Philippines, a new wave of plants is being built. Colodne: Where is the demand for coal today?

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How to Find Hundreds of Business Ideas

Up and Running

Founder Nick Woodman had recently been been on a surfing trip to Indonesia. At Palo Alto Software, we use our own product – LivePlan – to manage and keep track of key business metrics. I’ll leave you with one last example. Ever heard of GoPro? They’re a camera company that got started in 2002.