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Millennials In Asia Are Ambitious And Entrepreneurial: VISA Study

YoungUpstarts

Well, unsurprisingly, online social networking is huge with this lot. Weekly Facebook use is incredibly high especially in Southeast Asia (Singapore, Philippines and Indonesia rated 93-percent) as compared to other social networks. The quantitative research was conducted online between June and July 2011.

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The impact of Covid-19 on Livestreaming adoption

VC Cafe

Social – when Epic Games acquired HouseParty, the ‘face to face’ social network, it had yet to find its moment. Eating – when I was in Taiwan and Vietnam over the summer, I noticed several people livestreaming their meals (especially hot pot!). Patreon has seen a surge in registrations.

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Bitesize Friday: NowForce, Cotendo, United Parents, Zerto and Entrepreneur Resources

VC Cafe

Cotendo raises $17 million in Series D from its current investors: Benchmark Capital , Sequoia Capital and Tenaya Capital as well as two CVCs: Juniper Networks and Citrix Systems. Founded in 2008, Cotendo increases the speed of large sites and enterprise networks through its encrypted Content Delivery Network (CDN).

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VC Victor Hwang: How To Create The Next Silicon Valley

ReadWriteStart

Even if you remove legal barriers between people and allow them to interact, they are still separated by distances caused by geography, lack of trust, inefficient social networks and differences in culture and language. The answer is that micro-level programs can have macro-level effects.

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Secrets of The World’s Best Brands

crowdSPRING Blog

Your brand lives in everyday interactions your company has with its prospects and customers, including the images you share, the messages you post on your website, the content of your marketing materials, your presentations and booths at conferences, and your posts on social networks. The Highlights from Interbrand’s 2011 Report.

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The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed?

pandodaily.com

I recently went to a networking event for one of the seed funds that invested in PandoDaily, and I’ve never seen such worry on the faces of the entrepreneurs. HealthTab acquires Avvo Health to double its doctor network. Microsoft has cut orders to its supply chain by half, according to Taiwan’s Digitimes.

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

www.readwriteweb.com

A Taiwan outfit created a c lanaguage interface to EEMS which worked, but I had to speed it up by a factor of 4 by rewriting what they did. social network for sports fans! Ive had mixed experience with offshoring, even from relatively advanced countries in the 80s. www.fantasysportsmatrix.cm.a