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[Infographic] The Silicon Valleys Of The World

YoungUpstarts

It’s difficult to supplant Silicon Valley as the hotbed of technology and innovation – our previous infographic looked at comparing Silicon Valley with New York – but that’s not stopping other parts of the world from building their own centers of entrepreneurship and technological innovation.

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Southeast Asia Startup Ecosystem Continues to Prosper Post-Pandemic

ReadWriteStart

When it comes to launching a startup, most founders think they should reside in the United States, Silicon Valley, in particular, to have a successful business. But there are other regions in the world that might not be as fancy as Silicon Valley but have a remarkable potential for growth.

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

The Next Web

Thomas Clayton has started and run numerous high-tech startups in Silicon Valley. The process of raising money in Asia is very different from raising money in Silicon Valley and, frankly, it’s not nearly as easy. Thailand, Indonesia, Korea, and Vietnam each have a couple of very good VC firms.

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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. The trap most of them fell into (common almost everywhere): they were reading the blog posts and advice of Silicon Valley-based companies and believing that it uniformly applied to them. What’s been missing from regions outside of Silicon Valley is a “playbook.”

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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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Expanding your startup into Asia? Here’s how to build out your operations in the region

The Next Web

Thomas Clayton has started and run numerous high-tech startups in Silicon Valley. A company cannot hire out of a hub city like Singapore and expect those individuals to cover Indonesia, India, Thailand, and the Philippines. So many entrepreneurs ask me about the graft in countries like China , Indonesia, and Thailand.

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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. Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, India and some other countries have been privy to the on-demand bubble, so to speak. by Samar Singla, founder of Click Labs.

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