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2 Reasons Why This is the Best Holiday Season Ever

Growthink Blog

MPulse (SaaS), acquired by JDM Technology Group. Permacity completed the world's largest solar rooftop project and increased revenue by over 35%. ViewQwest launched in Malaysia in Q3 2016 with Indonesia next in line. NativeAds (digital advertising) closed on a $4M venture financing.

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Born Global or Die Local – Building a Regional Startup Playbook

Steve Blank

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. China, Russia, Brazil, India, Indonesia all meet those criteria. One of the groups I spoke to was the Australian Sports Technology Network.

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Protesting Against AI

Start Up Blog

Another thing the Writers Guild seems to have forgotten is that the biggest investors in their services also happen to be tech companies—yes, those building the AI technology that can replace the writers and even the actors. Embracing AI Fighting a technological tide is never a good strategy for workers.

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[Asia] Small Businesses Look To The Internet For Growth Opportunities

YoungUpstarts

Interestingly, Indonesia has a lot more small businesses (54 million) than China (54 million), despite having a population only a quarter of the world’s most populous country. In a 2011 and 2012 survey conducted by McKinsey of SMEs in Asia, SMEs who use the Internet say it has helped them gain revenue as well as reduce costs.

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

YoungUpstarts

When we say on-demand, the glorious image of Silicon Valley and its technological environs pops up in the layman’s mind, and even that may be too imaginative. The catalyst for this disruption is obvious: Technological integration. by Samar Singla, founder of Click Labs. Hyperlocal Focus.

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Significant Percentage Of Global Email Traffic Is Spam: Cloudmark

YoungUpstarts

“The rate at which consumers in Asia Pacific receive and send emails and text messages is increasing every minute,” says Neil Cook, Chief Technology Officer for Cloudmark. Here’s a look at how five Asia Pacific countries rate: COUNTRY. Global Ranking for Volume of Email Spam. Percentage of Emails Flagged as Spam.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Week 7

Steve Blank

In the DOD/IC innovation is often more technology, more planes, more aircraft carriers, more satellites, etc. It is this group, challenging the dogma of the existing programs, who will come up with the disruptive/asymmetric offset technologies and strategies. In those case revenue will become an additional metric.

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