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

YoungUpstarts

I previously touched upon the Passion/Product Fit of an aspiring entrepreneur. Product/Market Fit. The business may either start in Singapore and quickly venture outwards OR it starts in a larger regional market e.g. Indonesia from day one. You are either a sales or product oriented startup company when you first start.

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[Review] The Rise Of The New East

YoungUpstarts

How big is the market for Muslim-friendly products and services? Faced with the rising costs of labour, materials and land in Chinese cities, companies are increasingly sourcing from other Asian countries like Vietnam, Indonesia, Pakistan and Bangladesh. What are the promises and perils of trading in the East?

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[Event] Japanese Startup Moso Wins Startup Asia Jakarta

YoungUpstarts

First place winner Moso , a free Mac OS X video editing application which lets users add fun animations, and motion text, and other fun effects, allows edited videos to be exported to networks like Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter. Philippines-based Payroll Hero came in second in the competition, while second runner-up was NoLimit of Indonesia.

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Monetizing Social Networks: The Four Dominant Business Models and How You Should Implement Them in 2010

venturedig.com

In social networking, they’re ever-changing, backed by eye-opening revenue and have very little documentation. Reason : as soon as someone sits down to outline ways social networks can be monetized, another model emerges, and another model ceases. The middle man is called an ad network. That’s right, $1 billion.

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[Singapore] LinkedIn Hits 1 Million Users In Singapore

YoungUpstarts

Then the online professional networking site had around half a million members – earlier this week the company announced that its membership base has approximately doubled to over a million members, addressing about 70% of the country’s professional labor force and student population. million) and the Philippines (1.5+

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Born Global or Die Local – Building a Regional Startup Playbook

Steve Blank

China, Russia, Brazil, India, Indonesia all meet those criteria. One of the groups I spoke to was the Australian Sports Technology Network. Further refinement of Product/Market fit could be done locally by using Value Proposition Design. while building their products in China. Outside the U.S. Regional Ecosystems.

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How to Come up with Hundreds of Business Ideas

Up and Running

A brief bit of science before we dive into how to come up with ideas: Good ideas are networks. In order to create new connections, you need to place yourself in environments that actually mimic the neural networks of a mind exploring the boundaries of the adjacent possible.”. Steve Johnson. Today, they’re a necessity. Very clever.